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  1. BureaucraticNightmare

    Why don't GI docs seem to think of mast cells in DDX of tough cases?

    I'm just wondering. After loads and loads of tests and no real answers to why I bleed more often than not with BMs, a few months ago, it occurred to me to ask my GI doctor if the fact that I sometimes broke out in inexplicable hives before diarrhea attacks and had episodes of flushing was...
  2. BureaucraticNightmare

    Lymphoid hyperplasia, can anyone shed a bit of light on this?

    I've read that this is common in young patients, even into your 20s, but does anyone know more about lymphoid hyperplasia? I.E. at what point (size, number, location, etc.) does it become indicative of something unusual? I ask because a pic from my pillcam report has some seriously gross, big...
  3. BureaucraticNightmare

    Vascular malformations/small bowel angiodysplasia in my 20s?? Anyone else?

    Anyone out there have a pillcam for obscure GI bleeding? IE your docs didn't suspect Crohn's but needed to figure out why you were anemic or were seeing blood in the stool? Anyway, apparently the only pillcam diagnostic finding more common than Crohn's (besides NSAID lesions) is...
  4. BureaucraticNightmare

    MRE tomorrow -- is the contrast-induced stomach trouble painful?

    I've had a crazy thorough workup and still no sign of anything but IBS, but since I keep seeing dark blood (and tested it with an occult blood kit, positive for blood every time), I'm getting yet another test tomorrow. This one's an MRI-enterography. I'm really nervous about the pain factor...
  5. BureaucraticNightmare

    Was this melena?

    I'm currently in between doctors, so I'm really not sure what to do. Basically (TMI ahead, warning) -- I just saw a pretty big glob of pitch black poo in the toilet. SERIOUSLY TMI coming up. For reals. You've been warned. I'd had bloody diarrhea for the first time in quite a while a couple...
  6. BureaucraticNightmare

    Reddish/maroon globs...is this blood, or what? (Overshare alert!)

    Ok. I'm not diagnosed but I really, really need a sanity check. I've had two colonoscopies now and an EGD along with a CT scan and have pretty much accepted that I don't have IBD, but ...since my last scope in early Dec, I've been seeing more and more reddish globs of gunk in my stool. It's a...
  7. BureaucraticNightmare

    Bloody diarrhea after scope with biopsies of inflammation. What's normal and what isn't?

    I'm not diagnosed but had a colonoscopy yesterday with biopsies taken from the sigmoid colon because the doctor found inflammation and edema. Anyone know how much blood/gas/diarrhea is normal post-scope if you're actively inflamed? This morning I've had two VERY urgent BMs w/blood and...
  8. BureaucraticNightmare

    Scary lab results, panicking. Could Crohn's be my BEST case scenario?

    So, here's the long and short of it: currently undiagnosed, IBD-like symptoms since May on top of lifetime of intermittent, persistent bowel trouble. I told my GI early last week (via email) I was having ultra-dark stool with a lot of undigested food. He got back to me, said to go to the ER if...
  9. BureaucraticNightmare

    Well, this is new. Blood, or just super gross diarrhea? (Ew, sorry!)

    What, exactly, does higher GI bleeding look like? It's unmistakably black, right? I hope so. I had diarrhea today, and because I had to give a stool sample, I had to spend a LOT more time looking at it than usual. A lot of times when I have diarrhea, the water is much too cloudy to tell what...
  10. BureaucraticNightmare

    Liver lesion and stomach ulcers. JK you're fine! (Am I getting Punk'd ... by a doctor?)

    Be brutal with me, ya'll. I'm gonna vent my diagnostic misadventure over the last month. If it sounds like I'm a hypochondriac who won't take "you're fine" for an answer, tell me. :tongue: I'm going to a new GI, but I'll cancel the appointment and pencil one with my shrink in instead if that's...
  11. BureaucraticNightmare

    Undiagnosed 25F; baffled + increasingly depressed.

    I'm totally new here, and for all I know, I don't have IBD at all. Maybe it's in my head. I guess I just need some support -- or maybe someone to tell me to chill the heck out. Anyway, here's my details: I'm 25 recovering alcoholic with 13 months of sobriety. (Sobriety's a side note but I know...
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