EGD and COLONOSCOPY

A couple weeks ago, we met with our second gastroenterologist. He is kind of quirky but seems very knowledgeable and confident in his practices.  He said he will do excavative biopsies and take about 30 biopsies.  He too said I need to have the PTG as soon as I am comfortable doing it. He does not feel I need to rushed into making her decision either.  Obviously he knows it is my choice to have the PTG or not, but since he knows I’m on board for it, he agrees it needs to be done.  He also convinced me to do a colonoscopy since they don’t know for sure about the link with colorectal cancer and this gene.  And it will be a good baseline.

So today, I had my EGD and colonoscopy.  Everything went well. They found a polyp in my colon which they removed and sent to pathology.  I’m a little anxious about that one, but only time will tell.  Dr stated he did 15 biopsies, which I’m a bit upset about. Because that is half of what he said he was going to do. He did say everything looked really good in the stomach and maybe that’s why he decided to do less biopsies.  But this tells me he doesn’t fully understand this gene mutation.