Egd Update -- My Saga

[ShrinkyDinkMe22 376]

So i had my follow up apt with the surgeon today to discuss my EGD findings. He showed me the scope pictures and pathology report. He said my pipes are textbook clean with the exception of one very tiny area that was slightly inflamed but just barely noticeable.

That's where he took the biopsy from and that came back positive for Barrett's. Inhad no dysplasia or scaring which is awesome.

He is against doing the surgery on me if I have Barrett's due to the fact if I develop esophagus cancer down the road you need your stomach so that they can remove te cancer and then make a new esophagus out of you stomach.

But our plan right now is to treat the barrett's/reflux for two-three months and then rescope to see if maybe the first test was wrong. He is sending me to a different doctor to do the second scope. He keeps saying I'm such a great candidate for the surgery but he is being very conservative and feels very strongly about this being a contraindication to the sleeve. And for that I appreciate him that much more. Even though it's going to make my process a bit longer.

He did state that he has had patients whos test first showed barretts and then later it didn't.

Thanks to everyone who has helped me on the couple threads I posted and also those that have emailed me. I truly appreciate it.

I'll see ya around.

[Pinky Green 260]

What is Barrett's?

[ShrinkyDinkMe22 376]

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0002128/