ChrisMayo
22-04-13, 17:17
Hello all,
Some of you might have been following my stomach related posts for a while. Since October I've been feeling ill / nauseous and struggling with my weight (I'm naturally very thin and lose weight easily when stressed)
I had an endoscopy and colonoscopy today.
He said everything look everything looked normal.
He said they found one polyp which he wasn't bothered by, but was sending for biopsy. He said before the tests if he found any polyps during the tests they would be removed as they can turn nasty.
On my notes he's written "Polyps: benign sessile" and "Otherwise normal"
I asked him afterwards if there was anything sinister and he said "no, nothing sinister at all" but all the stuff I can find online says "sessile" are more likely to be malignant, so, naturally I'm terrified!
The fact he wrote "benign" in the notes suggest he knows what to be looking for with cancers etc, but I'm still concerned.
Basically, has anyone else had similar and it turned out ok?
He said it was small, and said it was probably co-incidental and not what's causing my symptoms and that it looks like an IBS diagnosis, but I'm still not feeling great.
Any words of advice would be appreciated.
Thanks for reading
Chris x
Some of you might have been following my stomach related posts for a while. Since October I've been feeling ill / nauseous and struggling with my weight (I'm naturally very thin and lose weight easily when stressed)
I had an endoscopy and colonoscopy today.
He said everything look everything looked normal.
He said they found one polyp which he wasn't bothered by, but was sending for biopsy. He said before the tests if he found any polyps during the tests they would be removed as they can turn nasty.
On my notes he's written "Polyps: benign sessile" and "Otherwise normal"
I asked him afterwards if there was anything sinister and he said "no, nothing sinister at all" but all the stuff I can find online says "sessile" are more likely to be malignant, so, naturally I'm terrified!
The fact he wrote "benign" in the notes suggest he knows what to be looking for with cancers etc, but I'm still concerned.
Basically, has anyone else had similar and it turned out ok?
He said it was small, and said it was probably co-incidental and not what's causing my symptoms and that it looks like an IBS diagnosis, but I'm still not feeling great.
Any words of advice would be appreciated.
Thanks for reading
Chris x