for those of you that have tried this with success, how long did it take to see results. i'm going on two weeks and am still having some bleeding but better formed stools. thanks!...
thanks for the reply everyone. not taking any supplements for weight lifting although i am taking stuff for other things (lysine for cold sores, fish oil, vit D, turmeric/isatis cooling for UC,...
hi guys it's been a while since i've posted on here, have enjoyed almost three years of pretty much being symptom free. in 2010 they found a DALM (dysplasia associated lesion/mass) and told me i...
haven't missed any Lialda dosages, doing 4 pills a day which i think is 2.4g. not taking any probiotics although i try to drink dairy kefir. i've got some rowasa that i've kept tucked away that i'll...
oh no that sig is old. no it didn't hurt. GI doc considered it a DALM since it was a polyp in an area of active inflammation. guideline for that is to remove colon because of a possibility of...
thanks gary. yeah i suppose if it gets any worse or lasts beyond winter than i'll pay a visit to the GI for further consult. i know they're the experts but also that there are lots of real world...
thanks soystud. i will continue to make my girlfriend laugh throughout the season with my loud mucus farts. she isn't laughing at my disease, just the sounds of it....
hello guys -- so i seem to get a flare-up every year between september-december. at the peak i'll probably be going about 5 times a day. as far as blood i get some drippage along with mucus loogies....
Just curious if anyone lately has been told they had a DALM (dysplasia associated lesion or mass). Basically it is a polyp that arises from an area of inflammation in the colon. Current guidelines...
Unfortunately what the others said is correct. I'm in the Air Force and developed UC during my service. I've been evaluated and referred to a medical board which will determine if I am to be...
so around this time of year i always seem to flare up. is there such a thing as seasonal flares? i'll have the occasional blood in poo and on wiping. other than that i go maybe 2 times a day and feel...
For any of those that may go through what I did: I went in for a colonoscopy last November and they found the typical active inflammation in my rectum with inactive chronic colitis throughout the...
aren't there "tricks" such as standing up while pooping to help the pouch empty more completely? doesn't taking probiotics help combat the potentially nasty bacteria from multiplying? just trying to...
well like i said i can only go with whatever CR surgeon the air force will send me to. at least the air force surgeons won't be doing it. not that they're not good but they don't do these that...
hey sue how often do you go? my concern is that by getting the j-pouch done i'll be made ineligible for future deployments, which means not being worldwide qualified, which means not being able to go...
thanks sue on the j-pouch website recommendation. i'm sure like this site more of the folks on there are those having problems with their pouches so i shouldn't get too scared about all the horror...
from what i understood his main concern is that since i grew a polyp there that there's a chance i could be having dysplastic changes elsewhere in my colon that aren't readily apparent. really i'm...
yeah i'm still not sure what to do. obviously don't want to part ways with my colon. however, i'm applying for anesthesia school and if i get in i would start next summer and it would be for three...
thanks for your input eva! yeah i'm leaning towards just getting the darned thing taken out. my uc has never been terrible but it would be nice to stop having to take all these oral and anal meds...
adenomatous polyp with tubulovillous architecture and low-grade dysplasia. Within this biopsy are fragments of adjacent rectal mucosa demonstrating chronic active colitis without evidence of...
The random biopsies fall under comment A. Not sure what all that means. Young people do get polyps, they just don't know if this is one of those sporadic polyps or something else....
well i'm in the air force so i'm pretty much limited to the docs/surgeons in the military, unless i want to pay for it all myself. thinking that would be pretty pricey haha. i just thought that...
tell me what you guys think. gi doc says this is as gray as a gray area can get and that i'm basically rolling the dice as far as choosing between frequent colonoscopies for the forseeable future or...
shouldn't the doc be optimistic and say, "hey, if the path results show that we got it all out than we can breathe easy and you'll just have to come by regularly so we can do some follow up biopsies"...
well it was a tubulovillous adenoma when i had my last c-scope but doc didn't take it out because he thought it was an inflammatory polyp. took a bunch of biopsies throughout the colon. i just don't...
i had a nightmare last night that all my biopsies returned dysplastic! :(...
do you remember what your first adenoma turned out to be? i.e. tubulovillous etc?...
had another colonoscopy today. the sessile lesion that they wanted to take out this time was 15mm. doc said it could represent a sessile adenoma vs a DALM lesion. he said that the likelihood of a...
how many people here (under 30) have had polyps found during colonoscopy? doc found a what he thought was a growth from the inflammation but biopsy showed it was a tubulovillous adenoma. will be...
so gi doc told me today i have a tubulovillous adenoma in my rectum. only biopsied it during my last cscope because it didn't look too significant. said he was in a quandry because if he had gotten...
The report says: "ileal mucosa with features consistent with mild chronic inactive ilieitis." All the other biopsies showed the same with the exception of the active proctitis. Than the biopsy from...
So after thinking I've had UC for four years (after flex sig biopsy in 2006) it's sounding like maybe it's crohns. Here is a synopsis from the biopsy results I got from my c-scope: inactive chronic...
got my c-scope today. everything went great. was inflamed up to 26cm i believe when i had my last flex sig and now it's "mild to moderate proctitis involving distal 17cm of rectum." he did find an...
yes ma'am on the rowasa once a night. no quick look from the doc. i took a bend over in front of the mirror and didn't see anything obvious myself. guess we'll know for sure a week from now! any...
well i only went once yesterday and once today with no blood for the first time. maybe the UC just gets scared when a c-scope is mentioned? i think i'm going to go ahead and go through with it even...
yeah i feel i would just have more peace of mind getting the whole colon checked out. plus the drugs will feel nice too. i want to have a fart competition with the old timers afterwards....
geez truth sucks!!...
just got them drawn today and both of them are not elevated at all. doc thinks my bleeding may be due to a fissure or hemmies. going maybe twice a day. they are formed but still having some blood. i...
thanks everybody!!...
can this be from an inflamed rectum? i don't think i wipe too much but then again i poop a few times a day....
they'll usually biopsy all the polyps they find to make sure they aren't malignant pre-cancerous growths so since yours was benign it sounds like you're in the clear. yay!...
i believe in the context of a colonoscopy that a biopsy revealed no malignancies as in the bad kind of cancerous growth. did they remove polyps or just biopsy a random part of your colon?...
registered nurse in the greatest air force in the world! currently working in pacu (post anesthesia care unit) and applying for crna (certified registered nurse anesthetist) school next year. hoping...
ever since i've been on the hydrocort enemas (almost two weeks ago) it seems my bleeding has been worse. stopped taking them last night and went with the rowasa. today there was still blood but...
ugh i'm scared of going on prednisone. i only had to go once today, just went actually. same thing, formed stools but then quite a bit of blood. i'm hoping it's just hemmies or a fissure....
oh and i notice when i put the enemas up the tip of the syringe causes a tiny bit of discomfort when i get it about a quarter of an inch in. i can also feel maybe just a slight burn when i "inject"...
tried cortifoam before and it was worse. quincy when you do bleed what is it like? how does it come out? it seems that my blood just kinda drips out right after the stool comes out. i don't know if...
i've got left sided uc. i'm on colazal 9 caps a day. negative on the rectoscope. i'll try the squatting over the mirror. hopefully my gf doesn't walk in haha. thanks quincy!...
so i've been using the rowasa for about a month now and the hydrocort enemas for a couple weeks. hydrocort at bedtime and rowasa after my first poo the next day. still having blood but it seems to...
last time i was scoped it was just left sided. i also started taking cellmass a few days ago (creatine). wondering if that's making things worse....