Yippee, my colonoscopy is over! I'm good for at least a year! Streamers, marching band, and fireworks should now commence!
Okay, back to the subject at hand . . . the bad news is my colonoscopy still showed inflammation. The good news is it did not show any bleeding and when I looked at this year's colonoscopy pictures verses the ones from last December, this year's looked WAY better. No more chopped liver!
But, there is still that pesky, rotten inflammation to deal with.
Dr. Weber said he removed polyps, but he didn't say how many. I was still coming out of the anesthesia, so my mind was not fully engaged to ask how many. That question must now wait until my follow up appointment in two weeks. He did say that most of the inflammation was where the polyps were. It will be interesting to see what the polyp biopsies show.
He upped the budesonide from two pills a day to three, which is probably a good thing because I started going downhill . . . slowly, as always . . . last week. I'm a little worse now, with my bathroom frequency going up and some days dealing with a very achy to slightly painful stomach. I drove to the grocery store this morning and each bump in the road was a wince of pain for me.
I wore a diaper for a couple of days after the colonoscopy and it is a good thing because I did have an accident. I'm hoping that was from my body still recovering from the colonoscopy prep.
Normally I would be thinking of jumping back on the prednisone, but because I am now on the budesonide, that is a big no no, as it would be double steroids. I get it, but . . . drat!
Dr. Weber did mention the possibility of injections again . . . or in other words, shots. Having to give a shot to myself, every other week. I'm really hoping we can find some oral maintenance medication that will work for me, but so far, no luck.
So now we wait until my next follow up to find out the polyp biopsy reports and probably play musical medicines again. I'm not sure when the music will stop . . .
Update November 30:
I'm up to four or five bathroom visits a day, with great urgency. I'm wearing diapers all the time because I am having accidents. My stomach aches most of the day and my mushy stool movements are quite painful. I'm taking anti-diarrhea pills and will see if they help. My follow-up visit is still two long weeks away. I so hope my doctor lets me go back on prednisone, at least for a month, to get me back to a good place. Why does this keep happening this time of year?
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