Reader's Digest version...I'm 49, F. Started having issues at 7 years old but mama was as backwards as an Appalachian so other than some pretty gross home remedies, nothing was done. I learned to live with it. You do when even the docs tell you it's all in your head.
I was told it was a gyno issue and after a complete hysterectomy, I had 10 good years with minimal issues. About 2 years ago, I ended up in the ER 3X in a month. Admitting GI said Crohn's or Colitis. Went to the follow up and he acts like he's never seen me before and tells me I might have a virus. For a year and after being on IV antibiotics, I still have a virus?? Two abdominal masses, but it's just a nasty bug??
New GI. He thinks it's Crohn's or Celiac. Ummm...Celiac?? I'm looking at the extraintestinal symptoms and thinking no, but I am not a doc. My follow up from the endo and colonoscopy is in a month. The ICD 10 code for the endo is Colitis, nothing as far as the colonoscopy.
I haven't been able to function like a normal person in almost two years. I lost my business, what litt weight I have, a good part of my hair and if I don't find a job soon, my husband will be next. I spend my mornings expelling bodily fluids from both ends. It's made the job hunt a bit of a challenge.
Thing is, trying to keep him from seeing me like this, he has a hard time believing I am as sick as I really am. I went from being super chick to a lump. The docs won't give me anything without a dx and if he says celiac I still won't have a treatment. Just don't eat gluten.
I'm already gluten free!!
My so is sick of me feeling sorry for myself. I'm sick of being sick and not getting any real help. I don't know what to do.
I was told it was a gyno issue and after a complete hysterectomy, I had 10 good years with minimal issues. About 2 years ago, I ended up in the ER 3X in a month. Admitting GI said Crohn's or Colitis. Went to the follow up and he acts like he's never seen me before and tells me I might have a virus. For a year and after being on IV antibiotics, I still have a virus?? Two abdominal masses, but it's just a nasty bug??
New GI. He thinks it's Crohn's or Celiac. Ummm...Celiac?? I'm looking at the extraintestinal symptoms and thinking no, but I am not a doc. My follow up from the endo and colonoscopy is in a month. The ICD 10 code for the endo is Colitis, nothing as far as the colonoscopy.
I haven't been able to function like a normal person in almost two years. I lost my business, what litt weight I have, a good part of my hair and if I don't find a job soon, my husband will be next. I spend my mornings expelling bodily fluids from both ends. It's made the job hunt a bit of a challenge.
Thing is, trying to keep him from seeing me like this, he has a hard time believing I am as sick as I really am. I went from being super chick to a lump. The docs won't give me anything without a dx and if he says celiac I still won't have a treatment. Just don't eat gluten.
I'm already gluten free!!
My so is sick of me feeling sorry for myself. I'm sick of being sick and not getting any real help. I don't know what to do.