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To: trebb

did you have a endeoscopy? lately my reflux has died down. Did you have steady reflux or?


14 posted on 05/28/2024 12:29:24 PM PDT by pollywog (" O thou who changest not....ABIDE with me")
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To: pollywog

Mine was on/off for years - after one flare up that was recurring over about 6 weeks, it felt like a slight sore throat and I became worried years of earlier smoking had caught up with me so I asked my doctor for a referral to gastro ... turns out the lower couple inches of my esophagus had been taking long-term beatings and I had developed some Barrett’s Mucosa spots - the bottom one was cancerous.
Turns out the extended flare up may have saved my life because the cancer was diagnosed very early and I was told it was one of the smallest they had ever seen diagnosed - because it wasn’t big enough to be causing the discomfort and the acid burn that worried me made them catch it early.
Still needed radiation and chemo which meant a port and a stomach feeding tube which nobody wants.
If you haven’t had an endoscopy, I highly recommend you get one because if I had had one a year earlier, they could have cleaned everything up w/o the radiation and chemo and all the crap that goes with it.


19 posted on 05/29/2024 4:13:01 AM PDT by trebb (So many fools - so little time...)
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