Treating Your Ulcerative Colitis with Self-Care Instead of Health Care

Well, one thing's for sure: though having ulcerative colitis hasn't made me broke, it certainly hasn't helped me financially. It can be pretty expensive having a disorder that requires specialized foods and care - that is, if one doesn't consider other options.

For me, I felt that having medical health care and paying for prescription pills was far too expensive for me. Plus, I wasn't happy with the outcomes. Therefore, I slowly weaned myself off of health care and started taking matters into my own hands through self-education. Sure, people are advised not to self-administer health care, but I believe that if you're smart about it, and you're willing to do a lot of self-exploration, you can eventually displace the need for strangers in lab coats handing you medications. This may sound extreme, and maybe even ridiculously dangerous and experimental, but I think about it this way: people have survived for thousands of years without Western medicine, so why can't I? And also, Western medicine has brought along its own bunch of problems, so why should I subscribe to the notion that it's infallible? It's absolutely not! Which is why I vouch for self-care.