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Next installment: Knee x-ray came back clear, no damage or osteoarthritis. But the bad news is that now I am having joint pain in additional joints: other knee, elbows, wrists. It comes and goes. And the fatigue is starting to escalate and interfere with my life significantly. Booo. My BMs have...

It continues... GP ordered ANA, which came back positive, as did anti-dsDNA. This is highly suggestive of lupus, but not definitive. Waiting on results of fecal calprotectin and a knee x-ray. Was told the wait for a rheumatologist here is 2.5 years unless the x-ray comes back with serious...

Thanks for your response, My Little Penguin. It did not occur to me that it could be related, and the clinician who ordered the CRP and RF and US for my knee was at a walk-in clinic (the pain was quite marked, and my husband was nervous about a blood clot), so no follow-up. I guess I could ask...

The saga continues. Sigh. The bile acid malabsorption treatment did nothing, so I discontinued that. I had one bout of extreme LRQ pain in November that woke me in the middle of the night and kept me awake for 3 hours... if I hadn't already had my appendix removed, I would have thought it was...

Update: Talked with GI doc today. Biopsies came back clear except for one, which showed minor non-specific colitis. Polyp was tubular adenoma. Plan: treat "as if" for bile acid malabsorption to see if it helps, while waiting for MRI to look at small intestine.

Well, all done. The sedation here is not nearly as pronounced as in the States, so I watched my colon movie in real time. Ha. Doc said mostly looks good, took biopsy from terminal ileum and a random section of colon. Also found a polyp in transverse colon. :/ Have to wait 3-4 weeks for follow-up...

PS... Pico-Salax is WAY easier than the dreaded gallon of nasty. Things have improved in the decade since my last colonoscopy! 🤣

Yes, same. Have never been able to fast, carry snacks with me everywhere, and must eat breakfast before 10. I barely eat any sugar because it seems to make it worse, so all this juice is a bit strange for my system. But that's the deal for a day! Thanks, Scipio. A minor inconvenience compared to...

Well, it's prep time! Oh, joy. Fortunately, not my first rodeo (third time I've done bowel prep in my life, thanks to endo) so I know the drill, but always so fun. I've previously had to do the drinking of that nasty gallon of prep stuff in the States, but now I'm doing split dose Pico-Salax...

Hi xmdmom. Thank you for your response. Yes, I certainly am thinking about endo, especially after my very protracted and awful struggle with it in my 20s. I've been keeping a symptom diary, and the pain and other symptoms do not seem to follow a monthly cycle like my endo did, plus the...

Good to know! Do they start with the colonoscopy just because it's cheaper? I don't have anemia, but I do have chronic Vit D deficiency and I've had low Alkaline phosphatase, too. All my other bloodwork has been normal.

Hi Scipio, Thanks for your response and encouraging words. Sounds like indeed you had a similar situation with the appendicitis! At the time it did not occur to me that it could be related to something more nefarious (I mean, lots of people get appendicitis), or that my fissures could also be...

Hi all, apologies for the long intro post but I want to make sure I am properly advocating for myself and asking the right questions. I hope this is the right forum section for this post. I'm a 38 y.o. female in Canada, normal BMI, family history of ulcerative colitis, and personal history of...