My colonoscopy is over a month ago, but I thought I share my results anyway since something was odd and bizarre:
My colonoscopy was on Feb 13 and you could already tell from the pictures that my doc gave me, that I still had patches of mild and moderate inflammation. The odd thing was - and seeing it really freaked me out! - that I had a lump in my colon that looked like as if someone pushed a table tennis ball under the skin of a chicken (sorry, for a lack of better description) and it was close to the terminal illeum. It looked huge on the picture. My doc said that she thought it was a "submucosal nodule", but to be sure it is nothing serious, she took biopsies.
Well, the biopsies also confirmed that I had still mild to moderate inflammation (although I do not have any colitis symptoms anymore which of course is a big plus) and that that lump indeed was a submucosal nodule or in other terms: A swollen lymph node in the lining of the colon. I didn't know you had lymph nodes right there! Of course I am relieved that it wasn't anything malicious ... it really looked scary.
I will have another colonoscopy in one year or two - depending on how well I fare on 6MP in the long run and whether I will flare or not. This was my 15th colonoscopy in my UC "career". I used to say that I rather have a colonoscopy than a teeth cleaning at the dentist and I am sticking to it!
Anyone ever had a "submucosal nodule"? Just wondering, because my doc behaved as if she doesn't get to see these things very often. The lump was not discolored or had a different texture than the other tissue, but boy - it could have been a scene from a horror movie ... or at least what I thought back then while being heavily sedated ... .