I WANT TO PUNCH A DOCTOR OR TWO!!!!!!! That A&E doctor wore that proud, cocky grin with such honour that it deserved an award.
I’ve just arrived back from the A&E department after an infuriating conversation with an A&E doctor. I can only describe my current emotional state as furious, downtrodden and utterly confused. My mother decided to drive me to the hospital after 3 days of my stomach refusing to empty causing me terrible vomiting and nausea. Together with the fact that I was experiencing a round swelling in the lower left quadrant of my stomach together with a deep ache.
Basically the doctor had an answer for every symptom I detailed from my constant flare-ups to my mouth ulcers, osteopenia and what appeared to be Erhytema Nodosum forming on my fingers. He stated that you haven’t got Colitis even though when I had a colonoscopy last year it showed areas of redness which were prone to bleeding and inflammation, because the numerous biopsies they took were on the whole negative for these pathologies. He suggested I probably have infectious colitis and that we all at some time can have this or that it’s probably IBS. I do of course believe that it could be infectious colitis, but what I refuse to believe is that a person can have a lingering infection for the good part of two years (LAUGHS). As for the IBS, well tell me guys do you know any fellow IBS sufferers who experience constant mouth ulcers, erythema nodosum and a free ticket to possible osteoporosis. He then said that my mouth ulcers, weight loss and osteopenia are possibly due to a poor diet (I eat a very balanced diet) and maybe they should investigate other causes of malabsorption such as food allergies. Im now going to be looking into this, but even so I have tried cutting out certain foods and I still may flare, In the past I have been tested for caeliac disease which was also unsurprisingly negative.
Lastly what really got me was when he stated that if I carry on with this (Colitis) business I will be labelled as having hypochondria or mentally ill. I have a gastro appointment this Monday which I’m not looking forward to as I feel its just going to be a repeat of yesterdays events and I feel the medical field is corrupt in dealing with patient care. If they cant see something on paper than there’s nothing wrong with you. Secondly you don’t have the right as a patient to empower yourself with knowledge otherwise your at risk of being labelled as inventing an illness.
Im not proclaiming I have things hard, because I know there is a good many people on here who have been through the blender and got a definite diagnosis. I don’t want a crohn’s badge or something but I don’t believe they should take people so flippantly as they have done with me and until the doctors can definitely exclude all possible avenues than you don’t have the right to tell me im healthy when im clearly not. I believe with illness there is no standard picture, some people can fit a bit outside the box.
I forgot to add the doc said Crohn's/Colitis is really easy to diagnose, but I know that a lot of you had hard times being diagnosed, is that true??
I’ve just arrived back from the A&E department after an infuriating conversation with an A&E doctor. I can only describe my current emotional state as furious, downtrodden and utterly confused. My mother decided to drive me to the hospital after 3 days of my stomach refusing to empty causing me terrible vomiting and nausea. Together with the fact that I was experiencing a round swelling in the lower left quadrant of my stomach together with a deep ache.
Basically the doctor had an answer for every symptom I detailed from my constant flare-ups to my mouth ulcers, osteopenia and what appeared to be Erhytema Nodosum forming on my fingers. He stated that you haven’t got Colitis even though when I had a colonoscopy last year it showed areas of redness which were prone to bleeding and inflammation, because the numerous biopsies they took were on the whole negative for these pathologies. He suggested I probably have infectious colitis and that we all at some time can have this or that it’s probably IBS. I do of course believe that it could be infectious colitis, but what I refuse to believe is that a person can have a lingering infection for the good part of two years (LAUGHS). As for the IBS, well tell me guys do you know any fellow IBS sufferers who experience constant mouth ulcers, erythema nodosum and a free ticket to possible osteoporosis. He then said that my mouth ulcers, weight loss and osteopenia are possibly due to a poor diet (I eat a very balanced diet) and maybe they should investigate other causes of malabsorption such as food allergies. Im now going to be looking into this, but even so I have tried cutting out certain foods and I still may flare, In the past I have been tested for caeliac disease which was also unsurprisingly negative.
Lastly what really got me was when he stated that if I carry on with this (Colitis) business I will be labelled as having hypochondria or mentally ill. I have a gastro appointment this Monday which I’m not looking forward to as I feel its just going to be a repeat of yesterdays events and I feel the medical field is corrupt in dealing with patient care. If they cant see something on paper than there’s nothing wrong with you. Secondly you don’t have the right as a patient to empower yourself with knowledge otherwise your at risk of being labelled as inventing an illness.
Im not proclaiming I have things hard, because I know there is a good many people on here who have been through the blender and got a definite diagnosis. I don’t want a crohn’s badge or something but I don’t believe they should take people so flippantly as they have done with me and until the doctors can definitely exclude all possible avenues than you don’t have the right to tell me im healthy when im clearly not. I believe with illness there is no standard picture, some people can fit a bit outside the box.
I forgot to add the doc said Crohn's/Colitis is really easy to diagnose, but I know that a lot of you had hard times being diagnosed, is that true??
