Conventional/alternaive medicine efficacy - your thoughts?

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Hello, Im curios to post and see how people feel about how effective

conventional

treatments have been for them, and comparatively how effective any alternative

treaments

have been for people.

I was diagnosed with Ulcerative Colitus when i was 11, and went through a

thorough

regement of several drugs from prednisone to asacol, all i rememeber about this

time is

feeling very sick and really no different from the way i was before being

treated, Although

over about a three year period many of my symptoms subsided,

When i was 16 i was diagnosed with PSC, after noticing jaundice. Also in this

situation i

remember my symptoms being more apparent after being treating with

prescriptions, and

also going back on asacol. Several times i had asked my GI about diet and what i

should

avoid eating, and he said to not worry about it just to eat alot and keep my

weight up.

Visiting the Integrative medical clinic in tuscon AZ, they recomended avoiding

transfats

( hydrogenated oils) and several other food additives as these where known to be

inflamatory. They also recommended eating Omega oils preferably from wild salmon

and

also tradition chinese medicine.

Over the last six years i have struggled with the illness and looked into many

different

therapies. over this time i felt a slow progression of symptoms and scarage.

Then this past

august i lost much confidence in the recommended treatments of my hepatoligist

and

stoped taking all medications which were just asacol and urso and went on a raw

food

diet. Altough this was a scary transition I really have felt better ever since.

After stoping

asacol my jaundice began to subside, a proper diet also was crucial in making

this happen.

Since then i have been able to mitigate most of my symptoms with diet and i have

much

better digestion than before. I was told that i would need a liver transplant

and have

surpased that date and my blood test levels no longer indicate that im in need

of one, as

they did before.

Anyways, since this is the way ive come to feel somewhat healthy, its led me to

wonder

about the long term effects of accumulated drug toxicity and food. Because Many

of these

drugs i have taken pounds of over the years. Besides the active ingredient, All

prescriptions have some type of fillers, as in asacol which has colloidal

silicon dioxide,

dibutyl phthalate, edible black ink, iron oxide red, iron oxide yellow, lactose,

magnesium

stearate, methacrylic acid copolymer B, polyethylene glycol, povidone, sodium

starch

glycolate, and talc I question how the body goes about synthesizing these

products? and

what are the side effects?

Im curios to your thoughts and felt inclined to share so thanks for listening.

Thanks !

Wylie

22- oregon