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hi sandy,

 

glad you feel better after hearing from me.

 

i didnt grow polyps, adenomas for the first several years with the pouch. after about year 5ish my doc started to tell me after pouchoscopies that i have polyps here and there within the pouch before they pretty much invaded.

 

with fap, its hard to predict the future but not productive to sit and dwell "what if" this or what if that comes along. I rest in the fact we had our surgeries to prevent us from having cancer, mine was done electively because the onset of cancer development in fap is that of by age 39. I was 23 when i had my colon removed/pouch made etc.  There is alot of "cure" in that alone having the surgery when the dr's say its time, and youve been through a second or third opinion (i have been through 3 opinions before agreeing to the jpouch, that colon needed to come out etc).

 

a good gastro dr will just continue to monitor you and take out the suspicious, larger of the polyps and keep you on your toes with your pouch.

 

my duodenom is clear around the pancreas/common bile ducts etc, no polyps at the ampula of vator etc. i just have hyper plastic gastric polyps and/or fundic gland polyps through out the upper g.i tract and the lower g.i tract in the pouch itself are all adenomatous. I am here to offically say that you can keep your pouch, im 14 years going on 15 and still pouching along.

 

we have a few faper's here, with more experience than I, and who have had another surgical procedure following colon removal/jpouch that are doing well, they(he) may weigh in as time goes on.

 

but you will be fine. just gotta try to stay positive, a good physician who deals with fap cases also helps lots.

 

-len

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