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Dr is sending us to the emergency room for further work up

Thanks for all of the info...I am taking her to her pediatrician and demanding further testing , and I don't care if they need to readmit her....she is very weak and tired. No, they have done no further testing.

I don't know. I may just take her back to er and demand they help her

He feels its psychological because the CT and US were normal. I don't know if they drew those levels. I may just take her to the local er.

CT scan was negative. Ultrasound was negative. She was receiving Toradol around the clock. She says that the pain is a bad burning pain .

They are saying that it is psychological because none of the medications worked. This is extremely frustrating because I am a nurse who takes care of crohn's patients :(

My daughter is 17 years old and recently diagnosed with Crohn's after a colonoscopy and EGD. She has been having abdominal pain constantly for 2 years. She was just in the hospital for 5 days. They had her on IV steroids, Morphine, Dilaudid, Percocet, and Roxicet for the pain. None of the pain...

They started the steroids in the hospital on Wednesday night, Solumedrol. And sent her home with Prednisone. Her appetite has been non existent. She just gets increased pain after eating or drinking. The CT scan and abdominal ultrasound they did was normal. Thank you for all of the information....

Yes they did let her go home in pain. I am trying to get her to calm down. I am trying to see which hospital I want to take her to. The local hospital does not have a pediatric GI doctor. But she is close to bring 18 I am going to look into an adult GI. It makes me feel bad because I am a nurse...

How do I approach them after they tell me that it is "Psychological pain"? I feel that they have labeled my child as a seeker of pain meds in the past couple days.

the colonoscopy showed inflammation of the terminal ileum. And she is on Prednisone as well.

Sorry- I forgot to mention that she is on steroids, Apriso, and just finished up antibiotics for H Pylori. She is also on Protonix twice a day. She is at the point where she feels that the pain is burning and stabbing in her right lower abdomen. So they sent her home with Cymbalta to help with...

new diagnosis My daughter is 17 years old and has had abdominal pain for the last 2 years. We finally found a GI doctor that would listen to us. Her pain is in the right lower quadrant and is constant. She had a colonoscopy and upper endoscopy. The diagnosis was terminal ileitis The GI doctor...