Tex, please forgive me if this is in your book and I've just not gotten to it....I've just started a class that requires a lot of reading, so I'm reading your book in spurts.
Question: There is LC and there is CC and both are MC. Some say they have only been told LC and others CC....what if you show changes consistent with both as I have? Is reaching remission harder or is it just all the same? I've read that one type is the precursor to the other.
Thanks,
Terre
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Terre,
Actually, there are at least a dozen different types of MC that have been described, but I'm guessing that most GI specialists have never heard of most of them (and neither have most pathologists, which is the reason why many cases still go undiagnosed). Since LC and CC are the only 2 types of the disease that most GI specialists (and pathologists) have heard about, they are by far the most likely types to be diagnosed. MC has been known to segue back and forth between LC and CC, so it's difficult to say whether one is a precursor to the other.
I've seen claims that one type is more difficult to treat than the other, but the clinical symptoms are the same and the treatment is the same, and since the disease can segue from one form to another for no obvious reason, it seems pointless to speculate about which type might be more difficult to treat. As far as I'm aware, the members of this board who have the most difficult cases to treat, fall into both categories with pretty much equal distribution. MC seems to be an equal opportunity disease, and no 2 cases are exactly alike.
Most of this is discussed in the first chapter in the book.
Tex
Actually, there are at least a dozen different types of MC that have been described, but I'm guessing that most GI specialists have never heard of most of them (and neither have most pathologists, which is the reason why many cases still go undiagnosed). Since LC and CC are the only 2 types of the disease that most GI specialists (and pathologists) have heard about, they are by far the most likely types to be diagnosed. MC has been known to segue back and forth between LC and CC, so it's difficult to say whether one is a precursor to the other.
I've seen claims that one type is more difficult to treat than the other, but the clinical symptoms are the same and the treatment is the same, and since the disease can segue from one form to another for no obvious reason, it seems pointless to speculate about which type might be more difficult to treat. As far as I'm aware, the members of this board who have the most difficult cases to treat, fall into both categories with pretty much equal distribution. MC seems to be an equal opportunity disease, and no 2 cases are exactly alike.
Most of this is discussed in the first chapter in the book.
Tex
It is suspected that some of the hardest material known to science can be found in the skulls of GI specialists who insist that diet has nothing to do with the treatment of microscopic colitis.