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Reply to "Anyone had some doubt about UC or Crohn's before surgery?"

Hi, thanks for the reply with your experience and am glad you've had a good experience with the jpouch. It gives me hope as well.

The slight difference in my case I guess is that my current GI doctor has 100% diagnosed it as UC with no doubt in his mind and my surgeon doesn't do jpouches on any Crohn's patients so it seems to me like he has a strong suspicion it's UC as well. 

My doubt comes from my previous GI doctor who was more of an IBD specialist and 100% diagnosed it as Crohn's disease basically because I didn't bleed enough for it to be UC in his opinion even though I was always anemic. Interestingly, that doctor didn't do any of the colonoscopies himself and relied on reading the reports whereas my current doc who says it is UC has done five scopes all himself on me which makes me think he has a better view of things but isn't a strictly IBD doctor. 

So basically it is indeterminate colitis in my mind due to my two different diagnoses at varying points in time even though medically I'm currently classified as UC.  As you can tell I'm an chronic overthinker and it kills me but am leaning toward the two stage at the moment because it seems a lot less daunting than three surgeries and I don't think my surgeon would do it if he didn't have good suspicion that it is UC.

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