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·HiThanks to all of you for your support over the recent weeks. Your help and encouragement has been very much appreciated.As you know, I had my colonoscopy yesterday (although my GP calls it a lower endoscopy) and it went okay. All those of you who assured me the prep would be worse than the procedure itself were spot on! The colonoscopy was, in fact, pretty painless.After the procedure, the specialist told me that my colon looked fine, he could see nothing wrong. He is still convinced that I have had a major infection, and then suffered 'post infective IBS'. I would just like to know how I got the infection in the first place. If this is indeed what has happened, I would like to be able to avoid it for the future!They took tissue for biopsy, and I have to wait a few weeks for the results. They also took loads of blood for tests - six files full! They are going to test for diabetes and thyroid, among other things, to try and explain my fatigue. I have to wait awhile for those results as well.Although I was sedated, I was awake enough to watch the whole procedure on the monitor. That was pretty amazing. I was asking all these questions 'whats that?' 'why is this that colour' and the like!So, the good news is that I don't have anything serious or life threatening. I guess the bad news is, my pain and discomfort is indeed IBS, and I have to get a grip and manage that. Because my IBS has been pretty mild until recent weeks, I guess I have been a bit lazy on that front.This infection idea does confuse me a little, has anyone else ever had anything like this?Other good news - my new Dusty CD arrived today, so guess what I have been listening too all day?
Andy------------------ http://www.dustyspringfield.co.uk/
