Hi,
Saw the new GI doctor Tuesday for my results. They are still processing the result of all the biopsies and plan to then send them to a specialist. He also wants the slides from my last 2 colonoscopies to compare.
He saw no MC or LC (can I still be a pp). He did see chronic inflammation high up in the small intestines and a few other things he wants to look in to??
Now he wants me to do a 72 hour fecal fat malabsorption test (yuck). Does anyone know if the high fat diet they want me to follow will set off a flare. He Also wants to do a capsule endoscopy.
Not sure about all this.
However, he has put me on elavil at a higher dose and it does seem to be helping. Having all Normans, and a few less trips to the bathroom.
Thank, hugs
K
New doctor, still no answere
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Hi Kitty,
Sure, you will always be a member of our internet family here.
It sounds as though your doctor is being very thorough with his investigation.
It's not impossible that the chronic inflammation in your small intestine could be due to MC. Of course most doctors are unlikely to recognize that possibility, because they mistakenly think that MC only affects the colon.
The added fat in your diet may (will probably) cause D, but it shouldn't trigger an autoimmune reaction, so the effect should last only until the excess fat is out of your system. That test seems like kind of an overkill, because if you have small intestinal inflammation, you should automatically have a fat malabsorption problem. Many doctors seem to believe that only celiac disease causes malabsorption though, so he may view the fat malabsorption test as a way to confirm a celiac issue.
The capsule endoscopy simply involves a tiny camera that you swallow, that sends wireless signals to a recorder that you wear around your waist, that records a video of the camera's journey through your GI tract. Normally, it doesn't cause any problems, and it can discover problems in the central area of the small intestine (the jejunum), that's out of reach of conventional endoscopes.
You're very welcome.
Hugs,
Tex
Sure, you will always be a member of our internet family here.
It sounds as though your doctor is being very thorough with his investigation.
It's not impossible that the chronic inflammation in your small intestine could be due to MC. Of course most doctors are unlikely to recognize that possibility, because they mistakenly think that MC only affects the colon.
The added fat in your diet may (will probably) cause D, but it shouldn't trigger an autoimmune reaction, so the effect should last only until the excess fat is out of your system. That test seems like kind of an overkill, because if you have small intestinal inflammation, you should automatically have a fat malabsorption problem. Many doctors seem to believe that only celiac disease causes malabsorption though, so he may view the fat malabsorption test as a way to confirm a celiac issue.
The capsule endoscopy simply involves a tiny camera that you swallow, that sends wireless signals to a recorder that you wear around your waist, that records a video of the camera's journey through your GI tract. Normally, it doesn't cause any problems, and it can discover problems in the central area of the small intestine (the jejunum), that's out of reach of conventional endoscopes.
You're very welcome.
Hugs,
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.
