Low grade dysplasia

The risk of progression from Low Grade Dysplasia are still very small but it is significant in that it has shown a progression from the non-dysplastic Barrett's. UK NICE guidelines do approve Radio frequency Ablation therapy for the treatment of LGD. Discuss this with your consultant.

How did you treat your condition for those 19 years behind you now? Did you take PPIs the whole time? How did you manage your condition for that period (and now)?

Anyway, you should stick to meds and a semi-diet from time to time. No smoking, no alcohol.

Anything that is anti-inflammatory can help with this including fruits (berries).  Barretts is just a  way your body protect your esophagus from cancer.  But when it becomes to much then is can turn into cancer.  Their is many ways you can delay and even stop cancer from progressing so maybe that should be the question here instead of trying to stop Barretts which it by itself means almost nothing. Everyone with reflux can get this and just about every human has a little reflux.  Asking a GI about nutrition is a waste of time.  Most of them have no idea and much less do they care  (some).  ;-(  PPI's???  I have seen medical research that shows that nutrition can do better or worse than PPI's.  This is all a guessing game right now. ;-(  Btw, last stats show that only 1 in 850+ with Barretts gets cancer.  WOW, their is a better possibility for you to get hit by a car than getting cancer from this but why take the chance?  Be your own judge and do what you feel is better for you.  God created our bodies to heal themselves. ;-)  God bless!

I had my doctor‘s appointment and they say the dysplasia they found was not in the Barrett‘s but in the squamous cells next to it? This seems very strange? I am waiting for a date for a repeat endoscopy to find out what is going on. 

Please keep us posted.  You are doing what you need to stay on top of this so that is the best thing. 

I just had a scope today and they diagnosed gastritis, esophagitis and biopsied the stomach and a couple of areas for possible barretts.  I guess I will need to wait and see what the biopsies say.  I just turned 50 and am a female.  My father-in-law died of esophagus cancer at age 67 so I will certainly be staying on top of this as well regardless of whether it turns out I have barretts or I need to get on top of the acid.  I am starting Prilosec for now.

I am glad you have another follow up.  I am also glad that these scopes require no prep. I have a son with Crohns and his scopes are a lot more hassle!

Strange have not noticed anyone here mention Bile reflux.  Is to my undersatnding bile reflux with acid reflux is the reason for the barretts. We all know bile is alkaline and acid is acidic so how do we deal with this.  In my opinion, the reason why so many people have barretts these days is because once they take out your gallbladder, biles comes into the picture and creates barretts.   So claudia, maybe bile is the problem and not acid reflux.