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Hi, so I thought I would come back and update. Yesterday I had my colonoscopy which I don't remember at all as the sedative appeared to work really well :) I have ulcerative colitis and he took 3 biopsies. The only thing is that he didn't go all the way round the colon, he stopped at the splenic...

Hi, my hospital appointment is in May but I'm not sure what it will entail as apparently I'm awaiting info from that dept. I did ask for a Dr to phone me back so I could talk some more and she did today which was nice and she said it's because I've been bleeding for a while as shown by my anemia...

Hi, it's been a bit of a stressful weekend, each day I'm just feeling more negative about everything. I phoned the Dr's to see if they had the rest of my results and she went through them again, my blood count was about 9.7 so just under the normal and I asked if that was bad and she said it's...

The CRP was 16 and I can't remember the ESR I'm afraid, I have no idea if I will be having more testing for the celiac but I will bear that in mind when I find out the results for that too, thanks for that :)

Hi Cat-a-Tonic, the blood is a beautiful bright red so I know it's fresh and no they don't hurt. Thanks for the pep talk about cancer, even on the Macmillan website it says most o fmy symptoms at my age are more due to piles and IBD and IBS than they would be to cancer. Does everything I've said...

Thanks bozzylozzy, yes my hospital appointment should be within the next 2 weeks and no as far as I know there are no cases of IBD in my family. I do have a cousin on my Dad's side that was diagnosed I think about 11 years ago with celiac and my niece was just diagnosed a month ago with it too...

Hi, I'm just starting being tested for IBD amongst other things and mostly right now I'm scared and worried and I found myself at this forum. This may be quite jumbled up so I apologise for this in advance lol. My Dr phoned today with some of the results of my blood test that I had yesterday...