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Hi, 17 years with a J Pouch. Once or twice a year, I feel some inflammation, maybe light pouchitis, but nothing major. I usually do some BRAT dieting for a day or so and it goes away. Yesterday, I felt that familiar inflamed feeling, went to bathroom, #2 of course, and when wiping I felt a bump around the rectum, anus area. Definitely new, not there before. It feels like the size of a small pea, and has some constitution to it, but it's not concrete hard. It doesn't hurt, there's no irritation associated. There's no blood, everything is relatively normal, except for the pea "button" thing.

It's messing with my mind more than my body, for now. It's getting me concerned but I don't know if it's just something that'll go away or something I should get looked at urgently with my Gastro Doc.

Anyone here had an experience like this?

I appreciate your thoughts,

Lou

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I experienced something similar and after having it analyzed by my GI doc, dermatologist and a colorectal surgeon, they all concluded it was a skin tag and to do nothing about it. Like you, I noticed it suddenly one day, while showering. I don't know when it appeared but it was like one day I felt it and I never noticed it before. It didn't hurt but I felt a pea sized bump.

Have your GI examine you and get his or her opinion on it. Good luck and I am hoping it's a skin tag as with me. I hear they are common.

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You would like to think it's a skin tag or a small hemorrhoid, but my first thought when I felt it was that it was the beginning of a cancerous tumor that had started at the rectal cuff.  I thought that because number 1 I am a cancer survivor, and number 2 because I was told long ago that although pouch cancers are very rare, they almost always start with the rectal cuff because that is the only remaining colonic tissue after J Pouch surgery. Plus I had also had pre-surgical dysplasia in my colon. So my reaction, like Lou's, was to freak out.

The overwhelming likelihood is that it's something Lou will be advised to ignore, but he should have it checked out just to make sure.

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I have the same thing.  My GI says it's a "skin bridge".  She said it's the way things have healed even though I've had my pouch for 20 years.  I have her check it each year. She said it can be cut off by a surgeon if it really bothers me.  I freaked out when I found it too.  Of course your mind goes to the worst thing especially with what we've been through.

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