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Is a sigmoidoscopy possible with J-Pouch?

I went to see my GI guy yesterday, and relayed the message that the surgeon had given me to give saying that she wanted him to do a pouchoscopy and take a look because I was having serious symptoms of pouchitis. The surgeon put me on antibiotics and the symptoms cleared up but are beginning again a couple of months later. My GI guy says that a flexible sigmoidoscopy is fine to do with a j pouch and that he wants to biopsy and find out about the pouchitis. Is it even possible to put a scope up there without tearing and killing me? I was told before that nothing is supposed to go up there anymore so my doctor wanting to do this is terrifying to me. Any information would be a huge help. 

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