kristin, i did not stay in for sylvia’s scope—i don’t think they would have let me with a child that young—i think it upsets them too much because they would want mamma. i didn’t see kassie’s scope either, but when tianna had hers, i jokingly said,”i think you should let me stay and watch,” and the ped gi told me i could. he even had me stand right next to him and hold on to tianna’s hands so that she would keep them away from her face during the procedure. she was out of it and didn’t remember anything, but she still would try to move her hands towards the scope. they took biopsies on all the girls. they have to take biopsies because they can’t diagnose with the visual eye with a scope. things might look good visually, but the real diagnosis is made on the molecular level. there is some bleeding when they take the biopsies and he said that kind of bothers some parents.
when i had my scope done (by a surgeon, not a gi, not a good idea) i had to ask him whether or not i needed to be taking meds. he looked at my lab report and told me it said i had severe reflux esophagitits. i didn’t think that my symptoms were bad enough to merit a SEVERE diagnosis, but the surgeon couldn’t tell me how they came to that conclusion. i asked our ped gi about it, and he said they base the diagnosis on molecular changes.
once the doctor realized how much damage sylvia had and how high her % of reflux was, we were sent to the ped surgeon. the ped gi’s quote was that her results were, “pretty darn abnormal.” i think that after 11-13% reflux is when they consider surgery, but sylvia was also anemic and failure to thrive and already had alot of damage—-and she was on prevacid and carafate. surgery looked like the best option. i had someone try and talk me out of it, but i trusted our ped gi——and when they went in to do her surgery, the surgeon discovered she had a good size hiatal hernia which had not shown during two upper gi’s and a scope. hiatal hernias are common in older people, but i think it is considered a birth defect and not overly common when a baby is born with one. we could have medicated her to her eyeballs and she would not have gotten better. her surgeon told us that his first impression of her was that she was either a preemie baby or a reflux baby.
i’m fascinated by medical stuff, too. i considered going in to nursing years ago, but then i got involved in having my kids. now that sylvia is just a few years away from school, i have been thinking about getting the prerequisits done so that i can be ready to try and get into the program when sylvia goes to school. the program here is kind of hard to get into. the tell me there is a two year wait for the RN program, but only a semester wait for the LPN program. i think i may start with the LPN program, because you can get advance placement into the second year of the RN program—sounds like it might be a little easier to get in that way, but even if it isn’t, at least i could work part-time for a higher income for awhile. plus, the college rep told me that there is a shortage of LPNs in our area, so it has driven up the wage.
kevieb2008-04-11 11:32:43
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. Stuff like my kids getting shots and my son’s barium swallow never bother me. I’m kind of a science nerd
.Did they also take biopsies when they did your daughters? Did that show anything? Also, did you get a med increase following the scope once the doc saw all the damage? The reason for our scope is I want a med increase (to marci-kids) or a med change and the doc wants to rule out other stuff first. We’ll see what comes out of this.
