My son spent the weekend at Children's Mercy and had a colonoscopy done Friday and a MRE done Saturday. Should receive the results this week.
Here is what I know so far from the scope...the main diseased part is up to about 40 centimeters in. This is in the sigmoid colon/distal rectum area (he has prolapse also very bad). She said where the large and small bowels meet at the terminal illium, it looks normal. So I am going to pray, pray, pray that the small bowel results come back looking normal.
She has put him on Colazal and Rowasa, saying many kiddos have had much success with this. We tried Rowasa before, over a year ago, and it was a mess! (So we ended up switching to Canasa suppositories).
Anyways...as embarrassing as it is...is there an easy way for the enema to be administered? Have any of your kiddos had to use this and have they done it on their own? I have helped the last two nights but if he goes to visit his dad, I wont be around to help and I am not sure how to show him to do it himself.
After a month, we are going to see how his symptoms are. Because he already takes Remicade every four weeks, the next option would be surgery to removed the diseased part. I sure hope combining these two mesalamines help him get some relief! Any advice would be greatly appreciated! Thanks
Here is what I know so far from the scope...the main diseased part is up to about 40 centimeters in. This is in the sigmoid colon/distal rectum area (he has prolapse also very bad). She said where the large and small bowels meet at the terminal illium, it looks normal. So I am going to pray, pray, pray that the small bowel results come back looking normal.
She has put him on Colazal and Rowasa, saying many kiddos have had much success with this. We tried Rowasa before, over a year ago, and it was a mess! (So we ended up switching to Canasa suppositories).
Anyways...as embarrassing as it is...is there an easy way for the enema to be administered? Have any of your kiddos had to use this and have they done it on their own? I have helped the last two nights but if he goes to visit his dad, I wont be around to help and I am not sure how to show him to do it himself.
After a month, we are going to see how his symptoms are. Because he already takes Remicade every four weeks, the next option would be surgery to removed the diseased part. I sure hope combining these two mesalamines help him get some relief! Any advice would be greatly appreciated! Thanks
