I wanted to leave a comment regarding Bluejay's comment.
He is right, the worst thing you can do is take antibiotics. Due to a good contract I moved to South Texas years ago. I lived in one these dystopian cities in that area. The health system is and was terrible, terrible doctors, even though I had great insurance.
In one of my lower abdomen flare-ups, a nurse in one of these terrible hospitals, recommended I take Cipro. Cipro is as close as you are going to get to chemotherapy. Doctors do not like prescribing it because this antibiotic basically kills everything in its path, kills the good along the bad, scorch-earth treatment.
Since that day, every time i had a flare-up which got to be almost constant, the doctors there had no problems prescribing it. I was not aware of how potentially lethal taking antibiotics was, and specially Cipro being a very potent but destructive antibiotic.
After the ostomy surgery the flare-ups got masked by all kinds of adverse conditions that came with the surgery.
When I got back to Seattle, the Doctors at the prestigious UWA medical center were horrified I had been prescribed these antibiotics for so many years, they were dumbfounded and almost incredulous. They were so shocked they got my records from Texas to find out, and sure enough, doctors there had prescribed Cipro undisciminately for years.
The doctors could not say due to legal reasons, but their faces said it all, shock. They could not say Cipro cost me this condition. A brave nurse could not hold her shock and sense of discomfort knowing this, that in one visit, with an upset face told me that Cipro is why I have an ostomy.
In Seattle, however, they refused to give me Cipro arguing there was no way I was producing bad bactria. The flare-ups continued, the surgery did not do anything to alleviate it. In other words, the surgery did not fix anything.
After a very serious visit to the ER the doctor here relented and gave me Cipro, I was in pretty bad shape. It worked. Bu, then they advised me on probiotics saying, rightly so, that taking Cipro was not healthy and could lead to even more problems.
Probiotics worked and now I lead a wonderful life. The point is that if the doctors had tried to find out why i was having this pain to begin with, and had they cared to advise me on natural alternatives instead of giving me such dangerous medicine, I would be without a stoma now.
Medicine works until you have a conditon that they can not find in their books. As long as you have something they have studied, you are fine. The moment you have something they do not know, watch out. To this day they do not know why I have this pain in my abdomen, why I am producing negative bacteria. What I know is that probiotics cure me on a daily basis and allows me to lead a positive life.
I have lost much faith in the medical industry, to say the least. Their ignorance, which is very large, and their refusal to discuss alternative treatments, organic, wholesome such as probiotic and their insane tendency to think very narrowly and interpret everything so narrowly makes the profession suffer from neglicence and shows how indentured they are to corporate pharmaceuticals.