I had 44 biopsies taken last Friday. When I let out the air, it was bloody. I also had a ton of mucus that day....
A year ago I was on here and scared out of my mind. My doctor sent me a letter saying I had a typical cells but no definite pre cancer was seen. My brain went to. but maybe??? They wanted a scope in...
Who is generalizing? I am talking about controlling my blood sugar naturally,how is that generalizing anyone? Eating what you like and taking a lot of pills isn't healthy. Death rates continue to...
Yes. Sadly I know several diabetics that take several different pills and still have high blood sugar. Every pill has side effects and I'd rather get good control through diet. When I eat veggies,...
Awesome! I've followed Dr Sarah Hallburg, Jason Fung, and a few others. I know I've looked at some from that book as well. These doctors saved my life by explaining why I must also keep my insulin...
I have 1 to 2 BM per day that is normal appearing. No pain blood or mucus. Medications never did much for me. Steroids helped with pain, but I had everything else. When I started a low carb diet in...
Thank you. Do you use coconut and almond flour? Recently, it has really come down in price. Bread and coffee cakes have always been my weakness. I got this swerve powdered sugar at the health food...
I struggle with anemia too. I have regular colonoscopy es for colitis, and there were no ulcers. I had some mild inflammation and some funky cells from the inflammation, but nothing that bleeds....
What is in the enema? Thankfully low carb diet keeps my symptoms almost gone. I have minor inflammation, but I had some cell changes in the sigmoid colon. The chances of it turning to cancer is very...
I've done well on a low carb diet, but my symptoms weren't as bad, but I am always anemic. Grrr. Personally, I'd look into surgery. I see so many past surgery saying they wish they'd done it 15 years...
Hi, I've been around HW for a while on the colitis board. I've known for years and years my blood sugar was the high end of normal. Doctors said exersize more and left it at that. Last year when I...
I would look into a low carb diet. My blood sugar was really high last year... 294. I went on metforim and low carb, and now my sugar levels are 120 to 140. Not great I know, but if I take a...
A talk with my mom who is a RN in the ICU said there is no way that is right. She deals with cancer patients often and she says the research says even stage 3 cancers are well over 50% survival after...
I would hope that is the case, otherwise everyone in the colon type message boards is wrong. They all are told they got it at pre cancer stages, so you're good. And since mine is most likely...
I have no idea. I have a really good family doctor that I can see at 6 months and show him my path report. I know he would put in for another scope, but I have no idea if it would be another 2300...
This was in a different discussion, and rather than hijack someone else's question I'll start one. I read this wrong, right?? I really shouldn't read this stuff after I got the letter that said my...
Yes, I've heard about it. I refuse to do the GI docs huge 4 liter of vile tasting nastiness, so I look up miralax prep that is much easier to get down. While I was looking, several GI doc sites said...
Honestly, I'd have it out. People fear the unknown, but I have had an ilesostomy before. 12 years ago, pre UC, I had an infection that ruptured. I got a life threatening infection from it and I had...
I hope it is all clear for you then. I know how scary it is to wonder if you have cancer. Sometimes when I hear about so many people getting colon cancer at young ages who had healthy colons, I...
You're welcome. Yes non emergency surgery is far better. Did your doctor give you the option of just proceeding with surgery? I know some doctors urge that....
First off, I'm sorry you didn't get good results. Second, I know everyone tries to avoid surgery, so I will tell you a bit about my experience. Back in 2005 I did not have UC. I thought I had IBS...
That is very frustrating. I too have had trouble with drugs I can't afford. I had a resection in 2005 for the same thing, only mine ruptured. I ended up with an ileostomy for two months. I won't lie,...
I was really sick in 2009 to 2011. 2012 was a little better, but I still had a lot of pain and diarrhea. I mainly used cort enema because that was the only thing that helped with the bleeding and...
Here is one possible explanation: 1. More and more crops are grown to be resistant to Roundup (active ingredient glyphosate). The adoption of glyphosate-tolerant corn is 89 percent of U.S. corn...
Well that was easy. I sent Dr Lyford a message over the portal and his nurse called. He is starting me on Apriso and he says it will cover the entire colon....
Can you also take cort enema with those two. When I am flaring bad that's the only thing that helps me feel better....
For left sided UC, just the enema alone is doing you good. My entire colon is affected and enemas did me a world of good when I was flaring pretty bad. I would start cramping and bleeding, and put in...
Thank you for the suggestion. I just sent a message to my doctor and asked him about that. I thought setting up an account with the hospital would be a pain. Nope! I just sent a message to my doctor...
When I have symptoms, I have a steroid enema I take. They aren't good to take long term, so I save them for if I start showing symptoms. I have rowesa too, but I constantly forgot to take it. I'll...
Thank you for your replies, they've made me feel a lot better. I've gotten my health acct all set up now though, so I can look up all my stuff, order refills, make appts, and such. :)...
Well that is a relief. Sadly I spent the whole night fretting after making the mistake of googling that stuff. I tell myself over and over to stay off google, there's nothing there but fear. Okay, I...
Biting my nails.. it doesn't help that medical stuff scares me so much. Always has. Ascending colon, biopsies: - Chronic minimally active colitis. Transverse colon, biopsies: - Chronic mildly active...
I am sure they will eventually find something they are putting in our food is causing this. The only good thing about UC is we are screened so often. Thankfully the treatment for cancer is so much...
Oh that is good to hear. I was trying not to be scared since my doctor said several times that there was no evidence of cancer or pre cancer. I suppose putting the interesting cells in the report is...
I did look around a little bit, but I have to be careful or I will just scare myself so bad I will just panic over it. Several sites did say that those cells are usually found with inflammation, so I...
Oh, and yes, the polyp was removed and tested. The report came back that it was a polyp caused by inflammation. The rest of the findings were inflammation throughout the colon. Once I go back, I will...
I don't, but I have to call to schedule an appointment to find out. My mom is a RN in the ICU and she said it is probably inflammation changes because if it was something scary, he would have wanted...
First off the doctor said 3 times there was absolutely no evidence of cancer or pre cancerous changes, and no evidence of cancer at all. He wants a repeat scope in a year. When I looked up his term...
There are so many people that suffer with some sort of auto immune disorder... it's frightening how many people I am connected with that have something that I simply say my brand of auto immune crud...
I was really nervous about it. Sadly, I went to google and that is the last thing anyone should do, especially when they have something already going on. Doom and gloom and dang C word everywhere....
Some people have to stay under 20 grams of carbs a day for diet to really work. I am on 2000 mgs of metforim a day. I have 5 mg of glipizide I can take if I eat carbs, but when I stick to low carb,...
Yes, I have been in some facebook diabetic groups that say the same thing about Met helping diabetics live longer than non diabetics. I've been on a mostly low carb diet to control my blood sugar. My...
The only thing Tylenol ever did for me when I was flaring was help with pain. I think you have to be on pain killers for a long time before you start to have constipation. I would say your meds are...
Interesting. Has anyone else heard about this? I had a quick but awful flare this last spring/ summer and my doctor wanted me off the metforim. She said it wasn't a flare, but the metforim and...
Yeah, sadly that was one of the reason I quit it as soon as my symptoms improved. I was pre diabetic before UC. It's awful that the treatment that works for one problems makes the other worse....
I was on metforim and got into normal blood sugar range. For 6 months I did great, then about a month ago I started to feel the inflammation start. I started using steroid enema and suppository right...
I had been in remission since 2012. Last Nov I got nailed with a type two diabetes diagnosis. I took metforim and ate a very low carb diet and got my a1c down to 6.2. I started a flare last month and...
I am not gay, but my husband and myself to play with a lot of toys. I have not had any tummy issues in over a year, so we are thinking of getting some anal toys. That would be different then anal sex...
The urgency is the main one I do not miss. That and that inflamed feeling. I guess going by not thinking about my UC I have been in remission for a long time, over a year. I had a few weeks where the...
I used to think I never would. My UC was never really bad. I had diarrhea, urgency with only occasional bleeding and cramping. My worse problem was having to go and having to find a toilet. I only...