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I hope everthing goes well. I think its a good idea taking your husband and even better that he is willing to go. Please do let us know how it goes. :)

I'm glad you came back from the doctor feeling pretty satisfied. Exploratory surgery, especially on something as delicate as the intestines, is probably more than any doctor is willing to do, but there are plenty of scopes and cameras to give it a good looking-at. And, of course, even if they can't figure out why you are the way you are, there are always prescriptions and OTC meds you can try to get relief; just because you don't know the cause doesn't mean you can't treat the symptom!

I dont think they do much exploratory surgery anymore because there are so many more tests now. I had exploratory in 1962 because of intestinal problems and it turned out my appendix had wrapped around the ureter and was strangling my small intestine also. Today that would show on a pelvic CT scan but I went thru 2 years of you know what insisiting I was sick and nobody really believing me. Good luck with all the tests. I have forgotten what tests you had in past but a pelvic CT scan and abdominal CT scan with contrast are pretty common when they can't find anything on the colonscopy and endoscopy. That will show most everything. When they do the endo this time they also checked for celiac and a couple different bacteria's as well as h. pylori so tell them to check for everything as in the past they did not check for celiac and other bacteria's only for h.pyloir so they don't check every time. I have to have an endo every year because of "polyp type things" in the small intestine(the duodenum part) They cannot be removed and can become malignant. They are caused by acid.