Help....Just Diagnosed with Intestinal Metaplasia
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Can someone please help me to understand Intestinal Metaplasia... I did an endoscopy on July and found out that I have Antral-type muscosa with intestinal metaplasia... No HP are identified...I found this out from patient portal....the doctor didn't even mention that I have IM...he just said that the biopsy result was ok... had anyone here been diagnosed with the intestinal metaplasia of the stomach and if so, what did you do? I am very worried ...Please help 
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carol46380 lila91781
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I also have been diagnosed. I worry all the time. I trust My God so I feel bad for worrying. My question is can it be healed? I read where Hugh antioxidants like vitamin C and E can heal it with the right diet. Mr dr. MaDE it sound like it can't be healed.
gundo1982 carol46380
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It is complicated. Your doctor is right and wrong. One can say it can be healed and one can say it can not be healed. You can see in the upper comments, one healed her metaplasia... I still didn't take my second endoscopy, I'm waiting for new year of my private insurance to be covered for at least one more year... In Jan, I'll have another endoscopy...
gundo1982 lila91781
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Hey, I'm cured =)
In my last 2 endoscopies, there is no sign of Intestinal Metaplasia.
HP eradication failed 2 times.
I still have pan-gastritis.
Lenfoid aggregation in single point.
But no Intestinal Metaplasia, no Displasia! 😃
Hope the best for all of us.
eric37251 gundo1982
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hi thats great news
ive read so much that IM cannot be reversed.
did u think your first biopsy was done wrongly or your change in diet played a part.
also whats HP eradication ?
any detail of your change in diet. im taking 1000mg of vitamimc daily.
pls advise
Gingerrose lila91781
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Help!
Was recently diagnosed with Intestinal Metaplasia and Gastric Atrophy. I have both the complete and Incomplete(bad) type. I have the BRCA mutation which includes gastric cancer.
I tested negative for H Pylori. Intestinal Metaplasia did not show up two years prior. My follow up will be a complete mapping in one year. My gastro thought fine to wait 2 or 3 years. I did not.
From what the Doctor said and from what I read I fear there is nothing I can do but sit and wait. It is upsetting that nothing can be treated until it turns to cancer. I believe Gastric Cancer increases 600 percent after this diagnosis.
I also have Gerd. I do not want to start taking Pantoprazole because of the side effects I read. One being cancer.
Is there any advice you can give me?
I started drinking potato juice daily. Does anyone know anything about that helping?
Any hopeful information would be appreciated.
melyndee lila91781
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Hi there. You would still expect cancer to eventually develop (say, 30 years from now)?