Ok final update for now anyway. Husband called the schedule nurse back and she was totaling agreeing with all his objections to a new expensive (co-pay wise) test since the meds took care of the...
The_Swan.......I don't know why but hubs doc thinks the CT will show so much more than the regular 'scope. Maybe you should ask your doc about it as another tool to keep you safe since you are at...
Sara14, I know, right? I was thinking maybe he thought he missed something but he should honestly tell us that instead of making hubs worry and wonder what is going on....
Thank you for such a detailed and informative response. I pulled out his paperwork and it says "inflammation characterized by altered vascularity, pseudopolyps and scarring was found. The ascending...
Once again helpful more knowledgeable folks have given me insight and help to add to my discussion with hubby. I am impressed with the bravery of you poopydoop to be awake and watch. I read your info...
Thank you both so much. You have raised points we hadn't thought of. We are trying to decide whether to dump this doc as he is very insistent and told his assistant to set it up while we were saying...
As earlier stated, husband had pancolitis in 2013, meds cleared all symptoms in less than a week and he just had a checkup colonoscopy in Oct 2018. His first stool he had blood on tp and thereafter...
Thank you DB for the insight that it might be poor healing from the polyp snips especially because his colon is very scarred. And iPoop for reminding me that the doc did tell him to up his mesalamine...
I posted about my husband a long time ago. He had pancolitis in Nov 2013. Doc said it was the worst he had seen in his 30 yrs of doing colonoscopies. After a week in the hospital he went on...
.....since I have logged in here. Short recap. Hubby spent part of Nov '13 in hospital with pancolitis diagnosed as ulcerative. Doc told him his colon was the worst he has seen in his 30 years. After...
Thank you for the welcome. Yes he was put on all the meds before pathology came back the next day. I do have a copy of the report along with a black and white of the colon. The color photo they...
Thanks again for the informative replies to everyone. We tried 2 different probiotics early when he was going 12x a day and of course he was way too sick to get any results I guess. I wil look at the...
I don't know if they were treating for c-diff or not. I am not well versed in all the terminology associated with this disease. He was very sick and I thought the flagyl was like a double dose of...
Thank you everyone for all the information and insight. I will ask his regular doc about 'scrips for enemas and suppositories. I do have a copy of the pathology report and biopsies.It says: This...
Hi, I have been reading all of the serious problems you have all been going through and it is truly scary what might be down the road for my husband. He just spent a week in the hospital after being...