I hear what you're saying, flowerbells, but I must admit this is one of the reasons I tend to stay quiet about what I take that is working for me. I read constantly about the issues people have with their RX meds - ranging from not improving symptoms to causing unmanageable side effects to creating necessity for more RX meds. If someone is having luck on a particular med I don't feel like it's helpful at all to tell them all the stories I've heard about people for whom that approach did not work.

In my mind, these supplements are working for me now, and there's literally no difference for me in how the supplements affect me than how RX meds affect someone else. If we're both doing better on our regimen, it could be said for either of us that it's simply a natural lull in our symptoms. There are people both on the RX side and the alternative side for whom what they're using no longer works and for whom it is difficult to then find something else that works. If RX meds work for someone else, I see no need to discourage them from it just because something else works for me and/or others I know.

I completely hear you about people who boast about their method - "I do it this way and it works for me, so it should work for everyone!" or "This method is better/safer/more [whatever] than what you're doing." That drives me nuts. But it drives me nuts whether someone is trying to say that for alternative methods (I can't TELL you how many times I've internally rolled my eyes or just stopped listening to someone who's trying to tell my if I just cut gluten out of my life, my depression/insomnia/aches/whatever will improve!) - or whether I'm trying to respond to someone asking about alternative methods and someone else feels the need to interject that it's not as valid as RX options because that's what's worked/working for them.