I'm somewhat skeptical but maybe that's just me. After about 2 lovely years in remission, I started getting mild symptoms again (this happened right around the time that they stopped making regular Asacol in the US - Asacol HD didn't work for me and I started getting symptoms at that time as I struggled to find a maintenance med that would work for me). My symptoms stayed on the mild end of things and I presumed it was a mild flare - I managed to maintain my weight during that time and I never got super sickly, never got terribly pale, etc. But still, I was having some symptoms and wanted answers and/or treatment. I had to beg and plead to my GI to put me back on Entocort - his presumption was, because I had maintained my weight and things hadn't gotten bad, that perhaps I just had IBS and that was the cause of my symptoms, rather than a mild ongoing flare. I rejected that theory - I don't respond well to IBS meds, and I had been passing blood during the mild flare, so IBS didn't make a lot of sense to me. After much pleading, he finally did put me back on Entocort, and it's working - so it seems as though it was indeed a mild flare and not IBS in my case.