I believe the answer is yes, we are still considered to have UC. Surgery isn't really a cure....it's a cure for our symptoms but not for UC itself. We can still have extraintestinal manifestations of the disease.

Agreed. My GI doc lists me as UC.

To add to that, even though colectomy "cures" the colitis, you still have the history of UC and all the potential associated risks of having the disease (other than colitis). So that means, from an underwriting point of view, that you are at an increased risk of actually filing a claim. That is what they are really concerned with. It is sort of like having a cancer diagnosis following you forever, even though you are cured.

Jan

I'm still listed as having it with my doctors plus I do still have it in the form of cuffitis. The pathology reports of my rectal cuff biopsies say I have UC. I, for one, am not "cured".

Thanks everyone for your reply, I have asked countless times on the phone and via email for the travel agent to confirm back that I am covered for UC but they're a hopeless case, so have settled for adhesions/bowel blockage which they have confirmed in writing, so I hope its going to be OK. I really can't understand what is so hard to understand, I only wanted it confirmed that UC was the original condition, they must be dense!!
Heather

Must be stupid. They ask if you have had any stomach, intestinal issues blah blah bleeding issues etc. on life insurance forms. I wonder if their wording is similar? Probably a 12 year old clerk and not a real underwriter.