I go to acupuncture and do yoga and take extra probiotics when my pouch gets a little swollen. I make sure to walk and sleep a lot. It always goes away so far without antibiotics or whatever. In my experience, these guys are only for extreme situations because they usually have extreme, sometimes harmful treatments that do not consider the whole system and so screw up everything and don't really heal the problem other than temporarily, if that. I have lost touch with both the surgeon and the GI, but when I did ask them for help, they gave me things that didn't help and failed to mention simple things that do help, like you'd think anyone who had a special interest in the gut would know. But that was 15 years ago. Maybe they get more training or have more experience nowadays.
I keep meaning to get connected to a new GI, but last time I went to one they got all fiendish and wanted to probe me and I barely knew them. (I mean, not even dinner and a movie first?) There was a creepy look in this person's eyes - they looked at me as if I were an object or science experiment, not a person. They also wanted me to sign a thing that said I wouldn't hold them accountable if they perforated my guts with their tools. I know this is standard protocol, but I couldn't sign it. I'm going to try again, though, just in case I need extreme measures in the future. I hope I don't though. And I hope other people have more positive experience to share than I do!