Crohn's, UC, or IBS?

My name is Kathryn, I'm 30 and I've been dealing with IBD/IBS related symptoms for 8 years. I have chronic diarrhea, severe abdominal cramping that sometimes lasts 24-48 hours after an "attack," bloody stool and blood in stool, and low-grade fever. I also have many extra-intestinal symptoms including chronic uveitis, mouth ulcers, arthritis, particularly spondylitis, gallbladder involvement (now removed), and a partially fatty liver. Due to the arthritis, I've coincidentally taken many of the Crohn's/UC drugs to treat the arthritis, including humira and methotrexate. My GI symptoms did improve on those meds.

I was told for years by my doc that my GI problems were just IBS, despite not having any tests performed. In February I started to experience blood in my stool and  completely bloody stool. My GP referred me to a GI who suspects Crohn's based on my symptoms. I had a colonoscopy on Tuesday, and they found "non specific inflammation in the sigmoid colon proximal to rectum." Biopsy results are pending. I saw a pic of the inflammed area, and it was blood red, compared to the more pepto bismol pink of my normal sections.

As you can probably suspect, I'm really nervous to get a diagnosis or some idea as to what's going on. I'm afraid because my inflammation is "non specific" that I'll be told I have IBS again. Is this possible?

What does "non specific inflammation" mean, especially in terms of whether or not I have an IBD, esp Crohn's or UC? What does it mean that the inflammation is only found in the sigmoid colon? Can I have colon inflammation, but no IBD?

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what do you take to manage your symptoms?