Hi Sharon - I'm in Bristol, ME, about 1.5 hours "downeast" (up the coast) from Portland. I do recommend the folks at Portland Gastroenterology Center https://portlandgastro.com/physicians-staff/ on Marginal Way right alongside I-295. The gastroenterologist that I used to see, and diagnosed my UC and then referred me to Lahey, has retired. And, as I mentioned at some point, since the creation of my pouch I've been foregoing gastroenterologists and just been seeing surgeons at Lahey.
My brother moved up here a couple of years ago and saw Dr. ALEX MILLSPAUGH, MD at Portland Gastroenterology Center for his first-ever colonoscopy. He caught a cancerous rectal polyp just in time. Dr Millspaugh clipped the polyp and then, when it tested positive for cancer, referred him to Dr. Sara W. Mayo, MD at Maine Medical Partners — Surgical Care Casco Bay https://mainehealth.org/maine-...gical-care-casco-bay who did an excision at the site of the polyp at Maine Med hospital. Dr. Mayo was also highly recommended by the surgeons down at Lahey.
I can't tell you whether you should see a Gastro or a Colo-Rectal surgeon at this point. Probably makes sense to first speak to the doctors' nurses/staff at Portland Gastroenterology Center. I'd hope that they'd refer you to surgeons right away if post-op anal stricture isn't something they treat.
I'll try to PM you. I'm headed to bed! ;-) Jim