Hello!
Like I´ve told you before, I´ve been struggling with diarrhea and ab pain since I was a child (just turned 26), and have taken plenty of exams since. Up to now I don´t have a diagnosis, changed doctors recently and so we´re running new tests. Doctors can´t figure out wether I have Crohns or Irritated Bowel Syndrome (which is WAY better in terms of development, despite the similar symptoms).
He gave me medication for IBS as a test, and I actually started feeling better and had my hope high... until last weekend, when I suffered A LOT (AND was out of state, in my husband´s godmother´s house). Just don´t know what to expect anymore.
In the last weeks I took several blood tests (all of them came back normal, except from CRP that was slightly up), lactosis intolerance test (negative), stool tests (they found some muccus - nothing I didn´t already see with my own eyes).
Last week I took a new Barium Meal (my last one was 5 years ago), and I had the exact same result as the last one: filling deffects in the ileum due to hypertrophy of lymphoid follicles. Just don´t know what that means exactly, but the guy who x-rayed me (and saw the previous x rays) asked me whether I had crohns.
I´m taking the capsule endoscopy next week, and my hopes are high on finding something out (since we´re paying R$3800 for the test - something near US$1900 - no health insurance covers this one in Brazil). My doctor sayd he wasn´t putting me through a new colonoscopy since the last one was normal and I have the exact same symptoms as in my last crisis. Guess he´s right. He told me if any test could show him something NEW, it´s the capsule endoscopy.
Well, guess I´ll just come back with further news after the test.
Like I´ve told you before, I´ve been struggling with diarrhea and ab pain since I was a child (just turned 26), and have taken plenty of exams since. Up to now I don´t have a diagnosis, changed doctors recently and so we´re running new tests. Doctors can´t figure out wether I have Crohns or Irritated Bowel Syndrome (which is WAY better in terms of development, despite the similar symptoms).
He gave me medication for IBS as a test, and I actually started feeling better and had my hope high... until last weekend, when I suffered A LOT (AND was out of state, in my husband´s godmother´s house). Just don´t know what to expect anymore.
In the last weeks I took several blood tests (all of them came back normal, except from CRP that was slightly up), lactosis intolerance test (negative), stool tests (they found some muccus - nothing I didn´t already see with my own eyes).
Last week I took a new Barium Meal (my last one was 5 years ago), and I had the exact same result as the last one: filling deffects in the ileum due to hypertrophy of lymphoid follicles. Just don´t know what that means exactly, but the guy who x-rayed me (and saw the previous x rays) asked me whether I had crohns.
I´m taking the capsule endoscopy next week, and my hopes are high on finding something out (since we´re paying R$3800 for the test - something near US$1900 - no health insurance covers this one in Brazil). My doctor sayd he wasn´t putting me through a new colonoscopy since the last one was normal and I have the exact same symptoms as in my last crisis. Guess he´s right. He told me if any test could show him something NEW, it´s the capsule endoscopy.
Well, guess I´ll just come back with further news after the test.