I saw my pcp yesterday and I brought in my big ol' list of symptoms and held back tears while telling her I'm sick and tired of feeling like shit all the time. She's not very knowledgable about gastrointestinal issues but she said she would try to help.
I was hoping she would give me some info to take with me to my GI appointment on Friday but as always, I left the appointment feeling more frustrated than ever.
She said it sounds like IBS and fibromyalgia.
I'm sorry but that doesn't fit. It seems like IBS is just the easy way to get a complicated patient out of your hair because you don't really know what's wrong and don't want to go through the time and testing.
Each er visit I have been to they have said that it is most likely Crohn's.
Fibromyalgia doesn't even come close. My pain is my intestinal area, it's tender on the right side when pressed on, and my back hurts all the time under my right shoulderblade. I occasionally get jet joint pain in my ankles and my hip but not often enough to care about it.
I told her about my episode on Sunday when I woke up at 3am going, "Ow Ow Ow Ow" because my intestines were cramping up so bad. I massaged my stomach to see if that would help but I found a hard spot and when I pressed on it my bowels made the loudest freaking sound bowels could possible make and I felt the hard spot go soft and I could feel liquid rushing through my bowels and I took off for the toilet. There goes another nights sleep lost by sitting on the toilet for hours.
She didn't have anything to say about that. Maybe my GI will, although I doubt it.
Well, my pcp said she would call the GI and talk to him, about what I have no clue.
She knows I don't like him and want to go to someone else but she encouraged me to wait it out for a while.
Screw this.
I was hoping she would give me some info to take with me to my GI appointment on Friday but as always, I left the appointment feeling more frustrated than ever.
She said it sounds like IBS and fibromyalgia.
I'm sorry but that doesn't fit. It seems like IBS is just the easy way to get a complicated patient out of your hair because you don't really know what's wrong and don't want to go through the time and testing.
Each er visit I have been to they have said that it is most likely Crohn's.
Fibromyalgia doesn't even come close. My pain is my intestinal area, it's tender on the right side when pressed on, and my back hurts all the time under my right shoulderblade. I occasionally get jet joint pain in my ankles and my hip but not often enough to care about it.
I told her about my episode on Sunday when I woke up at 3am going, "Ow Ow Ow Ow" because my intestines were cramping up so bad. I massaged my stomach to see if that would help but I found a hard spot and when I pressed on it my bowels made the loudest freaking sound bowels could possible make and I felt the hard spot go soft and I could feel liquid rushing through my bowels and I took off for the toilet. There goes another nights sleep lost by sitting on the toilet for hours.
She didn't have anything to say about that. Maybe my GI will, although I doubt it.
Well, my pcp said she would call the GI and talk to him, about what I have no clue.
She knows I don't like him and want to go to someone else but she encouraged me to wait it out for a while.
Screw this.