Upper endoscopy patients? Duodenal erosions: Help?

[Sea_Star]

Hi all. Brief hx: crohn's terminal ileum diagnosed 2010. Back then, I was on Entocort 9mg which gave me the same symptoms I'm having now: epigastric pain/acidy feeling. It was cured with Prilosec then, and this time, I'm on Entocort 6mg and have taken Prilosec. HOWEVER, my new (8th or 9th GI) wanted to do an Upper endoscopy to "make sure" since it's never been done before. I'm so disappointed I let that happen, since I know EXACTLY what's causing it: the Entocort. I just had it done today and on the discharge report it says
"Duodenal erosions found may be peptic duodenitis or duodenal Crohn's"...obvi the H. Pylori possibility falls under the peptic duodenitis as do the meds.

I'm having so much anxiety thinking the pathologist will label it off as Crohn's since I have a hx of that...

Any similar stories?? Why do they have to put that on the discharge report? It's not really an eval for Crohn's in the duodenal tract...is it?

 

[2thFairy]

Are you taking any NSAIDS?

 

[Sea_Star]

Nope, just Entocort since June...this started after the Entocort.

 

[Sea_Star]

Just got the results: No H PYlori, just a bit of gastritis! Thank the LORD...I asked if I could taper the Entocort and take Pentasa instead...

but now of course, next worry: wouldn't an invasive procedure like that trigger crohn's to develop there, poking around and taking biopsies from the gut, causing the immune system to go crazy? :/