Colonoscopy Results

[Codder12]

I have had "mild" crohns for 8 years. Mostly lower abdominal pain and when I do have a flare its 3 or four trips to the bathroom in the morning then it stops for the day and the next day it could be the same...may last for a few weeks then its gone for a few months.

I had a CT Enterography done a year and a half ago and it showed some mucosal thickening up to 13 mm in thickness involving the jejenum small bowel loops and said it does not appear to be inflamed. GI thinks it is mor IBS related.

This winter from Nov to March I had abdominal pain again (seems seasonal to me) and the morning bathroom issues again a few times so he suggested I go for a colonoscopy. I had it yesterday. No sign of Crohn's at this time. No scarring. I realize the Crohn's will come back at some time but GI said to keep taking the Pentasa and thinks my issues are still IBS and I will take Librax for it.

The colonoscopy did show excavated lesions - multiple non-bleeding diverticula seen in the sigmoid colon and the recommendation on the paper work was to await pathology results. I was kind of "loopy" when talking to the GI so I can't really remember what he said about it.

I am not sure if I should be concerned about the diverticula? Why would they do pathology tests on that? Another thing now to stress about? Any advise would be great as I will not be seeing the GI for a while....health permitting. Thanks.

 

[Trysha]

Diverticula arise due to weakness of the abdominal wall.They look like small out pouches in the colon wall. This happens more with age progression and mostly don't cause trouble.
The concern about diverticula would be whether or not they are infected and/or bleeding in which case antibiotics would be prescribed.
Biopsies would be taken and would indicate infection or anything else like crohn's.
Diverticula can exist without any infection and we would not know they are with us except for colonoscopies, CAT scans etc.
I have many diverticula and would not know about them except they show up when monitoring the crohn's.
Make the most of your next GI visit and ask lots of questions as to the results .
I would not worry about it unless you get more symptoms arising, then of course you need to talk to the doc sooner.
Feel better soon
Hugs and best wishes
Trysha
PS Welcome to the forum. I am sorry no one has answered your concern sooner.