If you had a bad reaction to the sigmoidoscopy then a colonoscopy could make your flare worse. Whether or not it does, you need to have the polyp removed even if it does because polyps can turn into...
Surgery for constipation is a bad idea unless your colon has totally stopped working. As for diarrhea after surgery, maybe I missed something but if they removed your entire colon wouldn't you be...
Anytime you mix the two terms "blood" and "bowel movement", it's common for the doc to order a colonoscopy or at least a sigmoidoscopy to find out what's causing it. Even if you've already had one,...
If you haven't been diagnosed with IBS yet, they might do blood/stool tests along with either a barium swallow or CT and a colonoscopy to make sure it's not anything else....
I'm in almost the exact same boat. Most of our symptoms are very similar. In 2006 I started having pain in my upper right abdomen. Mine was a relentless stabbing pain with occasional nausea. When I...
I have some of the same symptoms you've described, minus the anal/rectal thing. For me it comes and goes. So far I've seen 2 GIs and have had almost every test except the pill cam. Both believe IBS...
I had the Serology 7 test earlier this summer. My C-Bir1 was abnormal at 39/21 but my test came back not ibd. According to my doctor the C-Bir level isn't enough by itself to predict ibd and of all...
My symptoms come and go. I was diagnosed with IBS in '98 after all the usual tests. I had a general abdominal pain every day for a while. Then over time my problems seemed to fade. In '05 I had a...
Officially, I've been diagnosed as having IBS. I've had several diagnostic tests done to check for IBD. I've had colonoscopies, small bowel barium studies, blood tests, and the prometheus ibd...
It could be IBS. Most likely you suffer from post-cholecystectomy syndrome. There is a drug you can try called Questran (cholestyramine) that some people who have this problem swear by. It absorbs...
I try to get my small bowel checked, just in case. Several of the symptoms you mentioned sounded like Crohn's. It is possible for it not to be detected if only your colon was checked and the disease...
I had my small bowel follow today and it came back normal so I guess it probably is IBS, which is changing the way it presents itself. Anyway, I thank you very much for your responses and I hope...
Yes, I've had this for 11 years and have been diagnosed with IBS from 2 colonoscopies ('98, '05), 1 small bowel follow, ct scan and other blood work. The only abnormality ever detected anywhere was...
Recently my gastro ordered a Prometheus test and one of the results was high (CBir 1 was 39.3 and should be <21). This was the only result that was out of normal range. My ASCA was 12 / <20 and...