anyone know about polyps?

[june5]

i have been plugging my symptoms into google's search engine and have found that polyps (and colonic cancers) have almost the same symptom related issues as i am having. i realize that it is probably not colon cancer (due to age) but i want to hear from those of you who have had polyps. from what i have read polyps can be large enough to cause blockage (i cannot have b.m.'s w/o enema for the last month and a half) cause mucousy discharge (which i have) but do they cause abdominal, back, and rib pain? how about joint pain? can they go away on their own? (i.e. burst, pop etc?) i have pain when i eat, after i eat and oddly after enema use, it hurts even more to have the b.m. out (abdominally)does any of this sound like polyps or anything else? should i do something fast (i.e. E.R.) or wait til i have insurance in Jan?

[Barbed]

While checking on the cause of my chronic diarrhea, they did a colonoscopy and found small polyps, which were removed and biopsied and found to be the type of cells that could cause cancer.  The diarrhea was found to be caused by something other than the polyps.  There were no changes in symptoms at all after the polyps were removed.  

There was no pain, discomfort, bleeding, or anything else with the polyps, but mine were small.

It can take several months to get in for a routine colonoscopy, so you could set up the appointment now for a later date.



                                

[Vodolija]

Dear June5,
I am so sorry you

[Vodolija]

Dear June5

It sounds to me like you might have one of the two Inflammatory Bowel Diseases. One being Crohn

[june5]

i went to the E.R. last night. ater i ate some soup i felt like my stomache was going to blow up and i had had enough. but of course all they could tell me is that my large intestine was competely full of formed stool. (they gave me an x-ray) but told me to go home and keep using enemas. (ugh! those things are horrid!) one nure decided i had an eating disorder and another decided it was "just I.B.S." if it is I.B.S. it is not just! (i am small and get the eating disorder commnts all of the time, while i do agree i don't eat right, i eat when i am hungry, therefor i do not think i have one, and i also don't see how an eating disorder would make me, of all things, constipated) my rectal exam showed it was that i was inflamed which they thought was from straining but i haven't been doing that from fear of hemorrhoids. (i also haven't gone in a week so...)the dr. agreedi needed a colonoscopy but said he didn't see anything that would be cuasing blockage (can they see that on an x-ray?)so he told me to take an enema, eat metamucil wafers with each meal,take lactulose every night and wat for my insurance to kick in. i just want to feel better, i never knew being constipated could hurt so much, my ribs and back hurt so much i could cry. i feel like a huge baby being in pain over being constipated. thanks much for the info and i'll be sure to check your site out today.

[UCLA00]

Hey June,

I have been following your comments and was just diagnosed with mild ulcerative proctitis a week ago. In the three months it took to officially get the diagnosis, I became somewhat of an expert GI guy myself. It sounds to me like you have a serious ulcerative colitis problem. I know it sounds sick, but going through the sigmiodoscapy(spelling?)I was shown what healthy tissue looks like and what inflammed tissue looks like; heathly tissue is pink with red vessels, while inflammed is slightly whiter with no aparent vessels. If doctors are treating you like ****, then just get a friend(albiet a close one) to take a look in your rectum and maybe you can at least tell whether or not your tissue is inflammed. Although the with colotis inflammed tissue can be localized in various segments of the colon or rectum, it's at least worth a look. I had your exact same symptoms, however a had very little pain, just mucous/blood in my stool. This may at least help you decide whether or not to go to the E.R.