I had an endoscopy this morning.  I had previously had ulcerative colitis and there was some scarring found but nothing in particular was found, the assistant said, but when I read the report on the way home, the consultant wrote that he took 2 biopsies from EACH of 6 areas (ie 12 biopsies). One comment was 'Mild patch colitis in caecum till mid transverse - Sigmoid diverticulosis.'  Unfortunately, I never got to talk to the consultant about what he wrote, but does that mean that I still have some 'live' colitis?  I had been assuming that 12 biopsis was just standard procedure but others on here seem to have had only 1 or 2 biopsis.  12 did seem rather a lot of biopsies.  Is this standard practice now?.  Will I hear that eventually that all is OK or will I never hear, if they are just standard practice?