Update on DH's Health

[LBTC]

Haudlady - how did your DH do with the test? Is he feeling okay now? It was yesterday wasn't it? Did they say when you can meet with the specialist again to go over the results?

Let us know. Oh, and here's a few more hugs for you, too

Hugs and butterflies,
~T~

[Haudlady]

Hello everybody, and thanks for checking in!

Well, we're not quite sure if it's good news or not... the doctor came out to talk with me after the colonoscopy. It was great - he sat down next to me, talked for a few minutes, and answered my questions. Of course, I didn't know that he was going to come out to see me, so I think my heart stopped when I saw him... phew!

The doctor didn't find any problems or issues, which is good news (I think). We have a follow-up appointment with him on Friday April 6th to talk about other investigative procedures. He didn't find anything that would cause blood in the stool, yet there it is. It sounds like he might do some of the other scopes that you have had, LBTC!

Poor DH was pretty loopy... he told me five times that he wasn't allowed to operate heavy machinery. I had some fun - the first time he said it, I replied "oh, so no running the tractor this afternoon?" The second time he said it, I replied "I guess you won't be mowing the fields with the tractor this afternoon..."

The third time he said it, he said "the doctor says I can't operate heavy machinery - he even told me I couldn't run the tractor." Then, he got this puzzled look on his face... "How did the doctor know that I have a tractor?"

[margo49]

Just take it one thing at a time.
Good news what it is *not *. As to what *is* the way they test is to take the worst thing first and then gradually on down the scale of serious-ness to other possibilities.
(They learn this kind of thing in Med School, you know how to approach diagnosing)

[Brandi]

Hey is everything still ok?

[Haudlady]

Hey Brandi, thanks for asking!

I guess it's okay... DH has an appointment for an "upper endoscopy" on the 25th. Since the Doctor didn't find anything going up the system, he's going to try going down.

Here's something interesting... DH hasn't had any symptoms since a week or so before the colonoscopy! The Doctor said that we will meet with him after this new test to decide what to do next. He said it's possible that we would choose to do nothing, at least until the symptoms show up again.

Who knows???

[Duck on Wheels]

Dear HL and her DH,

I think you can pretty much assume that it isn't either the big C or ulcerous colitis. Neither of those would have disappeared so quickly, spontaneously, and leaving no scopable trace so soon after. There's a whole range of things that can cause abdominal pain and blood in stools, of which I think maybe just one more serious one (Crohns) that might not show on a colonoscopy. Your doc is doing the right thing by trying to check out all the serious stuff first. If none of those shows up, and nothing else pops up as an answer while checking those out, then you can safely wait til symptoms arise again ... which they may never do

Just in case Crohns turns up on the upper endo (I'm assuming Crohns is another of the possibles your doc is checking out), I can mention that my DD and I are both doing fine. She's symptom free now on a maintenance medication plus a daily "dose" of yoghurt. I'm nearly symptom-free and tweeking my meds to get there. Today we're heading out for a ride together. She's prob'ly in great shape as she's been training all winter for the ALC (San Francisco to LA) which is in just over a month now. I've been training indoors and don't know how I'll do out on the road again, but did a spin on her bike last night to get the saddle height right and boy, did that feel good So ... Crohns is definitely to live with once you get it under control. And I think that's about the only really serious disease left that you doc hasn't eliminated. From there on, you're on the lighter end of the scale as to seriousness of disease.

Oh, and if you go ahead and book your Norway trip now, when would you be making the trip? And what would you be planning on seeing? Any chance you'd come up to my part of the country and do a ride to H*** and back?