I had the colonoscopy and ECG (from the mouth, down) this morning. I have to agree with you all that the worst part was yesterday drinking that awful stuff and then last night just emptying everything. Today wasn't bad at all, I don't remember much of anything. I have some tenative answers! First, he removed 2 polyps from my colon and those are, of course, being biopsied. Also, my colon, instead of having the 3 main turns in it as it should, has about 6 and is shaped more like a pretzel, apparently made the scope very hard to do and is certainly contributing to my ongoing constipation. We have a follow up appt after the biopsies come back and I'm sure he'll have some suggestions for me as to what to do about that. Most enlightening, however, is that the upper scope revealed that I have an area of my stomach that is very red, inflamed, irritated... thus the pain!! And the loss of appetite, hence the weight loss, you get the picture. They took part of that to biopsy, too, it is possibly an infection of some kind - he said it was not an ulcer, just calling it "gastritis" for now. SO... I am looking forward to going to see him again and firm up some of this stuff with the lab results, too. I still believe this diet is of great help to me, and no matter what they tell me about IBS I will stick around here because the info and support is so good! Thanks so much for the prayers and kind words!
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Take care,
Michelle
...the greatest of these is LOVE. (I Cor 13)
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