Back from Mayo

I'm back from my appointment at the Mayo Clinic. Because my insurance won't cover services at Mayo, I primarily went for consultation, and I'm going to have the recommended tests done through my gastroenterologist in Tucson. The Mayo GI said he isn't sure what's wrong, but he thinks it is either an autoimmune disease affecting my small intestine (but probably not Crohn's) or something hormonal such as a tumor secreting some kind of hormone that it shouldn't. So...I need to schedule a special type of CT scan, along with some other tests. I'll be going back to Mayo in a few weeks. I may need to have another endoscopy done at Mayo, as the Mayo GI wants to take a lot more biopsies and go further into my small intestine using their special equipment. So...that's the news.