Hear hoof beats? Could be a Zebra!

I'm sure this is not the news you wanted to get but let's hope that surgery corrects the iron problem. Sending positive thoughts your way.

Sue

I hope all goes well for you. You didn't say anything about cancer so am hoping that the tumor is not cancerous.

Another Zebra story....
A friend of mine's doctors were treating her for her crohns, including prednisone and Humira. She got so bad she couldn't walk without a cane. Long story short, Mayo clinic discovered the problem is in her pancreas and had her wean off of prednisone and immediately off of Humira and some other drugs I can't remember the names of. It angers me to no end, the local docs had her on horrible drugs and told her she could "hope" to get better, they couldn't do anymore to help her.

How can a doctor do this is beyond me. My GI couldn't figure out what else to do for me so his nurse got me into the Mayo clinic. That is the sign of a good doctor, they are not afraid of telling you they don't know what to do so sends you to another doctor.

Doc did say it could be a number of different things including a fatty tumor best case scenario. He said if he had to guess he thinks it's a carcinoma or a GIST tumor (both are small bowel cancers). I'm hoping for a GIST because 80% of GIST tumors are benign. Hospital called today and I'm scheduled for a CT tomorrow with enteroscopy on Monday. I'll hopefully know what it is soon.

Wow, what are the odds? Glad they finally found the cause of the bleeding.

Jan

I just did this in my duodenum. Was cake walk. Mine was done with a upper scope.