Well… I had a Dr appt today with the newest dr on my list (Dr Akram).. She’s from the Mayo Clinic, deals exclusively with Colitis and Crohn’s and was very attentive. She listened, she watched and she touched.
She also told me that when I was in the hospital in June the CT scan done then showed an abscess. This was the one the GI ‘surgeon’ specialists were flipping out over, ready to do surgery… but then the GI Specialists, says to hold off on it..
I went back to the dr (different dr than today) 2 weeks ago and had to ask if maybe antibiotics might be helpful to get me through because I was in pain, getting the same sick-symptoms back.. maybe? Because if not, I will likely end up back in the hospital…
I was given flagyl and cipro, upped the prednisone to 40 mg/daily until todays appt.. as well as sheduled the CT scan.
Dr Akram today tells me the CT scan showed the abscess in June has gotten bigger. No doubt about it. It must be dealt with in way of draining. Very quickly I was set up for an appt for tomorrow morning. They are going to do a drainage catheter using a CT scan and I’m to “bring a driver”..
I don’t know anything else, as the hospital didn’t call to confirm anything today. However, my sis assures me I will feel SO much better, as it will get that infection out of my body and allow it to start healing up. She used to do these types of procedures (she was the “camera girl” as well as many other medical assistants).
I will post details as to what the procedure is about after it’s done. But I plan to take it easy tomorrow.. hopefully I won’t feel too terrible. For now, I think I’ll go take a pain pill and get to bed.. it’ll be an early up and about day tomorrow.
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Wow, I am going through same thing. Just had scan today. On flagyl and amoxicillian. My MD wants me to wait and see if infection goes down. I was told it is like a zit. Let me know what happens. I wish they could burn my divertidula shut so I would not have to go through this again.
Is the Mayo clinic conducting the procedure?
Hi Shelly – sometimes the flagyl and other antibiotics will make it go away. Mine ended up being really large (I forget how big but big enough that the doctor performing the procedure wanted me to stay the night, or two, in the hospital). I’d had it for a while though, and I don’t think they realized it.. so it was growing, rather than getting smaller, even with all the antibiotics I was on. My procedure was done at a local hospital – it was a simple thing.. they did knock me out to do it though. And I had a tube for a week or so, to drain it. It was not fun, by any means, but the relief was really pretty quick. I’d been in a lot of pain from it.
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