[ConservativeMind]

Two pathologists should be consulted and two forms of endoscopy used.

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[musicman]

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[the OlLine Rebel]

Ok only looked at your excerpt.

Still not clear on whether we’re talking monitoring BE itself or monitoring during GERD for BE.

[pepsi_junkie]

Endoscopic eradication therapy is recommended in patients with BE with high-grade dysplasia or intramucosal cancer.

This was me, with a very long segment (well over 5cm, don't recall the specific number now). I only had low grade dysplasia My doctor from Johns Hopkins - one of the best in the world - said I should get treated right away but my insurance woudn't pay into it was high grade dysplasia. It was her expert opinion that by the time she found high grade dysplasia, with a segment as long as mine it would already be too late, there would be cancer too. Fortunately I was lucky. One advantage of seeing a leading expert in the field is that she performs a lot of studies of new techniques and she put me in a study for a new at the time technique - cryoablation - and froze all the bad cells. It took several sessions spread over a couple of years to get it all but she did and I've been Barretts free for about 7 years now.

I believe if I had followed the recommendation here I'd probably be dead or missing my esophagus now. It seems like it's aggressively looking to delay treatment until it is on the edge of being too late.

[Bernard]

I had BE several years ago. Two manual scrapes and a 3rd check to make sure it was clear, and one Pantoprazole daily since then. With an annual upper GI.

This enhanced procedure sounds like one of the Imperial Overlords contracted BE, and this enhancement is intended to justify the increased care the overlord class gets.

[logi_cal869]

BE is an effect of GERD, which is a consequence of improper parietal cell function, itself a not-so-subtle symptom of severely impaired health.

Yet they continue to prescribe PPIs which further impair parietal cell function and ignore the consequences of their institutional ignorance by treating GERD rather than resolving it.

Patients pay the price. Worse, PPIs are now OTC. I’ve met too many people who were destroying their health on the advice of their doctor to resolve a single symptom.

M&M keeps at it.

[mass55th]

I was diagnosed with Barrett’s Esophagus well over 20 years ago, and have regularly had endoscopies. I’ve been on medication for acid reflux since the late 80’s, early 90’s. My gastroenterologist will do an endoscopy and colonoscopy together. I had both done last June. He said my Barrett’s is stable, and I won’t need another endoscopy for a couple of years...and, I can do the Cologuard tests in the future. No more prepping for a colonoscopy.

[Pete from Shawnee Mission]

Viewed. Thanks!

[doorgunner69]

Prilosoc has been my close friend for years now.

[kelly4c]

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[Faith65]

Thanks.
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