Thanks Jan, I was hoping to hear your view. I guess I have nosier non-medically informed friends and business acquaintances that don't stop with the questions until I get to autoimmune disease with explosive bloody diharrea and a pain in mu side that feels like a knive twisting that is not caused by stress like the IBS/colitis or ulcer they think I have when I give them the name. I don't want to be handled with kid gloves leaving anyone thinking stress causes this to happen to me. Although the name does seem to cause me stress.
In the future, I will have to go with Racheal's Inflammatory Bowel Disease generic name and leave it at that unless they actual know there are different types and ask me which one. I just thought someone would agree and maybe we could rally some likeminded frustrated people that would try to get it named after the doctor who discovered it or have fun coming up with some cool kind of name instead of description. I guess I'm the only one with serious issues about the name, err I mean descriptive name. I like to keep things simple and there is nothing simple about UC.