Hello! old thread but I'm looking for possible causes for UC, I also had a very fast, very ill UC, went from living my best life to having no colon in less than 2 months, struggling for my life, living in a hospital, watching my body and mind degrade fast, it is, like many people have said, a living nightmare. I was humbled by this disease in ways I didn't think possible. But that's not the point, the point is that every person I have spoken about the disease asks me the same. WHY DID YOU GET SICK? and I am sick of trying to make people understand there isn't a cause, I can see in their eyes they don't believe me, they think is something genetic, or something I ate, or something I did. Or something. And I thought so too for a while, it would keep me up at night, it would make me cry for hours, what had I done to make this to myself? how can my own immune system attack itself? I have to have some sort of guilt in this. Now I think is not like that, is like some types of cancer, that some people get, for no reason. But there still a little voice on the back of my head sometimes that says... "or is there a reason?"