Bile Acid lesions?

I have had crohns of the small bowel for many years which returned in the junction of the  resection site.  My last colonoscopy was done by a Colon  screening doctor who said it looked like my crohn's was active.  He said he seen ulcerations and sent in samples of those areas to get biopsied.  I did have the results sent to my reg GI.  The  report came back showing no cancer, thank God, and no crohn's, atleast not in my large intestine.  So I asked him, then what are the ulcerations he seen?  After reading, he shrugged, and said he didn't know?

What could they be from?

Personally I think they are bile acid lesions. 

Since my surgery. and for many years till now, I have had nothing but diarrhea,  and I have told the doctor that my diarrhea is acidly painful, at last something is showing up that can explain that bile acid diarrhea can hurt and can cause damage to the point of ulceration, and isn't just something little thing, that doctors forget to mention before surgery?   

Actually cholestrymine does work to some degree,  but I cannot take it because of the stricture.  Can't win. 

Thanks, it's good that you can still take cholestyramine, your stricture or narrowing must still be opened enough that you are able to do so. I was using cholestyramine before, I never have problems on the day I drink it, it's the next day I'm in discomfort, guess when it's trying to pass through the narrowing, then I get a bloat pressure and heart palpitations and esophageal burning, feels like I get a back up. I wonder, if I took a pinch a day if it would neutralize that acid. Nature never intended bile acid to be poured into your large bowel. The body always recycled it further up and very little would actually pass through into the large bowel. Why can't they develop a little re route to send it back to where it normally belongs, so it can be recycled in the proper way? Some things seem so simple to do, but don't think anyone has done it yet??

Post Edited (dorri) : 3/18/2016 8:07:19 AM (GMT-6)