Our concerns about over-use of anti-biotics were premature. My GP was not prepared to put me on a course since the justification was not mainstream medecine. They are the gate-keepers and there is nothing I can do to change that.
However she was prepared to accept the drug recommended by the rheumatologist, Salazopyrin, which he described as an anti-inflammatory but which is also mentioned in the article of jroc(?) as affecting the gut -

"Alteration of bowel flora has been a proposed mechanism of action for sulfasalazine, and it has been shown that patients with inflammatory bowel disease treated with sulfasalazine have decreased numbers of nonsporing anaerobes".

I spoke to someone tonight who has tried sulfasalazine and it made him very sick. There is a long list of side-effects for both sulfasalazine and Moxifloxacin, the other drug mentioned in the article, so I am not keen to try either.

I need my GP to prescribe my anti-inflammatories but otherwise it is up to me to overcome my disease using my own resources and help from others such as this website. I did it 8 years ago and I can do it again.