When Katie Sackett, Nicole Bambanian, Anna Nevares and Kristin Geffen discovered they were siblings they also learned they all have inflammatory bowel disease.
Soon after Kristin Geffen, Katie Sackett, Anna Nevares, Nichole Bambanian connected after a DNA test revealed they're long-lost half siblings, they learned they had something else in common — they all have inflammatory bowel disease.In 2017, Katie Sackett began experiencing “strange abdominal cramps,” and wondered if something was wrong.
Bambanian, Kristin Geffen and Anna Nevares, who all found one another through DNA testing, all also have inflammatory bowel disease. Sackett has Crohn’s disease while Bambanian, Geffen and Nevares have ulcerative colitis . Since find one another they have become a support group of four, encouraging one another and finding the best treatments.
Bambanian had her surgery in 2002, and Nevares had hers in 2006. Yet, their paths diverged. Nevares has had few complications since undergoing her procedure. Bambanian participates in online groups and with the Crohns and Colitis Foundation and she kept hearing about a doctor Dr. Feza Remzi. Patients thought he was “the best.” When it became clear that Geffen and Sackett might also benefit from a j-pouch, they decided to see Remzi together.Even though Sackett has Crohn’s disease, it functions a little differently and that’s why their doctor thought a j-pouch might benefit her.
“We have procedures the next morning and we have to have an enema,” she says. “I’m like ‘All right, one person in the bathroom at a time.’”“There are two components of inflammatory bowel disease — one of them is ulcerative colitis, the other is Crohn’s disease,” Remzi, director of the Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center at NYU Langone Health, tells TODAY.com. “About 3 million people — 50/50 divided —has ulcerative colitis or Crohn’s disease in our country.
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