Let's see....... i've spent $180 on something called molocure, hundreds of dollars on "renew life" products (intestinew, cleansemore, heavy metal detoxes and on and on) hundreds of dollars on garden of life products that are supposed to cure everything, hundreds of dollars on acupuncture and all kinds of homeopathic herbs, I've read the maker's diet, patient heal thyself, some crazy book call the cleanse or something. So yes, over the years I'm sure i've spent close to 10K on mostly futile efforts. Even many of the rx i've gotten have only made symptoms worse. THis disease is pure hell. I wrote this in another email, but the only thing that's working for me is babyfood, bananas,potatoes, zelnorm and citrucel. That's been for a few weeks very successful. Does that sound like something you could try?