My daughter, after being diagnosed with crohn's disease about a year ago, has just been told she has gastro TB. She has not travelled to a foreign country recently. However, as a child (she is 40 now) lived in Korea. While we were there, there was a TB scare. Our family was tested, and everyone was OK. She lives in NM very close to Juarez. Is there a problem in Juarez now? Her gastro, who has diagnosed her with crohn's over a year ago, has not even been in to see her after being in the hospital for a week. She has been on a regular IV with morphine ,antibiotics, zofran and now potassium.

The gastro on-call did a colonoscopy yesterday and she was told she had crohn's. Then he came to see her last night and changed his diagnosis to gastro TB. He is also rated the best gastro in the town were she lives. She seems to want to keep her original gastro who misdiagnosed her, and has not even bothered to come and see her while she has been in the hospital.

I think she should switch to the gastro who did the colonoscopy, taken the trouble to visit her and explain her illness. He is coming again today.

I've just recovered from stage 4 cancer which was misdiagnosed for over a year. I nearly died from being "poo-pooed" for over a year. I got a second opinion with the same CT scan, which was immediately diagnosed as cancer. It was a long haul, surgery, chemo, radiation etc. I am reluctant to watch my daughter go through a similar episode.

How common is gastro TB? How contagious is it? What's your opinion of changing docs?

Thanks