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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Eating and losing weight and losing ability to eat certain foods could also be Crohn's or IBD-which are very treatable! [/quote]

I know what you are saying, but suspect you either aren't in IBD world or you were blessed with an easy to treat form. Yes, treatable for many, but as a parent of a kid with an IBD I can tell you no walk in the park and the treatments can be an ordeal. I think you are being misleading making it sound like if he just gets scopes and a biopsies and finds out he has an IBD, there is an easy treatment and life goes back to normal. Some need other procedures beyond scopes to diagnosis. Then if you do have it, it's not like for many you just pop a pill once and life is better. It can take a while to find the right treatment and there are risks with the ones that tend to be the best. Most non-IBD people or people with easy cases don't understand how complicated it can be and what it is to deal with infusions not working, surgeries, etc.

That said, if he ignores an IBD for too long he could end up with things like needing a large part of his colon removed, not being able to poop the traditional way. [/quote]

I have a 25-yr IBD diagnosis (have lived longer with it now than I did before it), my disease was poorly controlled (there was a lot less to control it with then), and I have had the surgeries you’re talking about. I would take that experience over death by pancreatic cancer in a heartbeat. PPs are not wrong to be suggesting that an IBD diagnosis would be a relatively positive outcome for OP’s husband.

He is out of the age range for an IBD dx and in the range for pancreatic cancer—so it’s not wildly likely, and in that sense it would also be a happy surprise.[/quote]

One of the most common times for an IBD to be diagnosed besides adolescence/young adulthood is middle age. It's on the rise. So he is not out of the age range at all.[/quote]

You’re off here. There is quite a bit of data, from across developed nations, suggesting that the traditional bimodal distribution is lessening because the 5th-6th decade onsets are down. (That peak was always lower than in 15-25 yos.)

The point is that in the search for the cause of a new onset something at this man’s age, pancreatic cancer has to be ruled out in a way that it really doesn’t in a 15-25 yo, and an IBD diagnosis would be a good outcome compared to pancreatic CA.[/quote]

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