After a week of continual diarrhea a couple years ago, I was diagnosed with microscopic lymphocytic colitis which my doctor said is "usually self-limited and will usually go away on its own". However, he did say I needed to take a steroid to get rid of it which I took for two months and it did. Before the colitis, I was on five different prescriptions, all digestive related. My goal was to get off all of them and I did. In the last year, I am being helped by a chiropractor dealing with nutrition (naturopathic?) and it's been a process to get well. I do take a lot of supplements and nutritional aids but I'd rather take something to help repair the problem(s) than prescriptions which "manage" symptoms. I seemed to get side affects from the medications, then another prescription to manage the side effects. I'm not against all prescriptions, but in my case I don't usually do well with most of them and felt like I was getting worse. One article I read said that a couple of the prescriptions I was taking can cause colitis. My GI specialist said they can't. I don't know who to believe but I know I was getting worse.

It does seem like we deal with our health backwards in this country and, as a whole, we take way too many medicines. Western medicine seems to deal more with symptoms than finding the root cause and dealing with that. I wish the medical community and the naturopathic community could work together better for our health. And I wish our medical insurance would pay for nutritional supplements instead of only prescription drugs.