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Ok, well at least he was nice. A quirky old guy but seemed to listen. The crohns guy had talked to him and sent him some of my records which he reviewed before I got there. Apparently the crohns guy told him how bad I have been hurting and they had already arranged a time for me to have the upper endoscopy this Friday afternoon!

We went over my medical stuff. He listened to my lungs and poked and prodded me. My belly was very talkative and grumbled and boiled for him to hear without his stethoscope! He actually scolded my tummy for talking back to him!

This "newer" pain I've been having in my upper right quadrant is really awful and I thought it might be an ulcer but he doesn't think so because eating makes it worse, not better. It may be gastritis or it may be the costochondritis, inflammation in the chest wall and surrounding area. You can actually see swelling in between and just under my boobs.

I started to reduce my steroids this past Saturday and I'm all swollen up again and the doc today said I had better go back up to the regular dose. UGH! I REALLY want off the steroids but I couldn't argue with him as the swelling is pretty bad and does hurt a lot.

I asked him about doing a colonoscopy at the same time and he said that the crohns guy just requested the upper scope and that I would have to talk to him about that. He agreed you can't rule out/in crohns without it but said the crohns guy may have a reason for not doing it yet?? So, for now, we are scheduled to do just the upper endoscopy Friday at 2:30. He said he just won't know anything until he looks with the scope.

My boss isn't real happy about me taking a Friday afternoon off as that is one of the days he is here but its not like I have a choice. It usually takes 4 weeks or so to get this done but he is working late to "do" me this Friday because he knows I'm in so much pain. I also told the doc that I have a high tolerance for the sedation medication and he said he figured aa much after looking at my list of drugs I take. He said as long as my pressure doesn't drop, he will give me as much as I need!

The other thing he wants me to do is a 24 hours urine sample. Sounds easy enough but after I talked to the nurse, I'm bit concerned. I have explosive diarrhea on average 10 plus times a day. For those of you with D, have you ever tried NOT to pee while having D?? Its very difficult for me to do one and not the other.

I can't get any poo in the pee either or it will ruin the test. The nurse didn't have any idea's?????? I hate to load up on Imodium because that stops me up for a couple of days than the D is even worse after, it's like its making up for the D I didn't have because of the Imodium!! I typically find that the D is less right after my humira shot, which I do on Thursday. I can't do the pee test Friday because I have the endoscopy and can't do it Saturday because the lab is closed Sunday and they want it at the lab no longer than 4 hours after your last pee. Any suggestions??

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Taking it one day at a time.....

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