I had another appointment. They wouldn't even talk to me about my stomach. All I got was 'It's not H. Pylori. It's just inflammation.' They refused to discuss a cause, prognosis, treatment plan, or anything else.
Basically one of their residents went looking for crohn's, found it, and now they're just pissed off. In general they're pissed off at me and most of their interaction is spent trying to catch me lying and yelling at me. I'm not supposed to have chronic inflammation and ulceration in my stomach, I'm supposed to be cured with elavil and bentyl, and I need to stop all this damn bleeding and pain. God, I'm such an *******.
They did order some [wiki2="Blood-tests"]blood tests[/wiki2] and a CT but honestly they only ordered them to avoid a potential malpractice case and to try to catch me lying. They ordered a blood count not to make sure I'm not suffering from [wiki2="Anemia"]anemia[/wiki2], but to prove I was lying about the bleeding.
I've got a CRP, CBC, and CMP out and the CT coming up. If there's not extreme results (positive isn't enough for these guys) I'm basically screwed. They're going to set that attitude of theirs in concrete and continue treating me with infinitely increasing dosages of drugs that one of them admitted at my last appointment are doing absolutely nothing and that I should be taken off of.
I'm getting treated like a psych case more and more and I'm sure the defence of the elavil by the attending, and decision to increase it to about 10 times the IBS dose, was based soley on the idea that I'm depressed and just being whiney. I've just recently gotten back to my level of illness pre-pred with the joint pain and all and frankly it's now looking like I'll be doing no different with or without health care.
