Hey thank you for sharing, your story is very interesting to me. I had a teacher who was always posting about his UC and how he was about to try some 'extreme' medication because nothing else was helping. I always thought to maybe just politely ask him, if he has ever considered veganism, as in ditching all his dairy, meat and eggs and just going plant based. Because this isn't the first time I've heard of someone healing their UC by going vegan. I believe that veganism holds so much potential for people and we are only now starting to discover(or maybe re-discover?) that we are meant to be eating this way. Because even though there is this prevailing belief that our ancestors ate mostly meat with a bit of scavenging, there us actually evidence of a more 'plant based' past. Like we have analyzed 'fossilized human poop remains' ... (called coprolites) and have analyzed these from thousands of years ago and the poop is basically full of what you'd expect from a plant-based people. Along with cannabis as medicine. Something people seemingly have known for a long time but only in recent years has been suppressed. It's crazy that alcohol and nicotine products, both of which are harmful to health and even society are considered okay and often even encouraged while other things such as plant medicines with the potential to truly help people are considered 'dangerous' and 'illegal.' And from the sounds of your post, not just in Canada or the USA either... What a world we live in. At least people are starting to talk a little bit but there is still much work to be done!