Hello again, and thank you JCCSG for your compliment. If you let me know how to reach you, I would gladly correspond with you. I am not prepared to say my name on a public forum such as this, although my friends would all recognize my initials.
I do believe that working with a Doctor that specializes in IBD is the best way to go. Besides having the medical knowledge, they also have the many different experiences that come to them regularly.
Wishing all that are sufferers that they find a cure for this and other disease so that no one has to suffer at all.