It's amazing what people are willing to put in their bodies on the possibility it might work.

I totally get this. When someone is in pain or scared because they have this "serious" disease, it's easy to fall back on the supposed experts and hand over control of their life in the hopes of making this horrid thing that they can't control just go away. I understand the impulse. I went down that route when I was diagnosed, too, despite decades of taking control of my own health and using non-toxic remedies. In the end, I returned to my senses and attempted to discuss options with my doctor after reading the research (not just the drug companies' pamphlets that she handed me). However, she just wanted me to shut up and do what she told me to do despite there being no cure, and that was what ended our relationship. I am a smart woman who actually does understand the research results, not just the spin that the drug companies put on them, and I wasn't going to just go along with something when the research actually said that there was no benefit to doing what she wanted me to do. *heavy sigh*