How to deal with"It's all in your head"

Find a new doc pronto. The minute they start that "all in your head" business, they have basically checked out on you because THEY are the ones who don't know what's wrong with you. Get away from this woman before she writes more slanderous things about you. I did not have Chrone's but I had a severe gut injury (induced by 2 surgeons for a surgery which on review I learned was not needed in the first place. Now in litigation). But I had a PCP write me up as having Munchausen's (that means loving to be hurt so you can seek more help! DUUUUUUHHHH! would any of us do that, I think NOT!)

So the minute I got fixed up the best I could I went traveling non-stop and took ballroom dance class. PRior to the injury I had taught for 17 years. That is not a munchausen's profile. Now I'm being scrutinized for not going back to teaching. I simply do not have the stamina I did prior to the original injury. They get you coming and going. It's a no-win. So get while the getting is good and before too much incorrect info is written about you. By the way, you can ammend your records and you should if she is writing any of this "all in your mind" stuff because your records follow you onto your next doc.

Been there and done that. NOT FUN! Too much politics in medicine these days. (NOT ALL DOCS, but some, and your's appears to be one.) Rosemary

A doctor 12 years ago put me on antidepressants much the same as you, and this is after months
of losing weight and agony. Two days later I was in the hospital with a full obstruction, and extremely
ill. Needless to say I did not see that doctor again. Actually I lie, he came to the hospital to see me
with a very sheepish look on his face. I just said 'depressed am I'. That was it.

Please get yourself a doctor who is prepared to listen, and listen good!!

I would very sweetly ask this "doctor" when they developed a blood test that could determine what was "in my head" and why that blood test result was more "accurate" than biopsies verifying active inflammation, and other blood tests indicating low vitamin D levels and elevated white blood cells, when combined w/my symptoms. And then I would walk out. Never to return.

Yeah, you need a new doctor right away. The first GI doc I saw when I was 20 told me it was all in my head and to see a psychiatrist. I actually had the disease 5 years before I was correctly diagnosed! You know it is much lower, NOT in your head, so get a second opinion and get all your test results sent over to the new doctor right away. Good luck!

RUN! I'm not kidding. Run to another gastroenterologist immediately. Don't let what happened to me happen to you.

Way back in 1995, I had several attacks of severe abdominal pain under my ribcage. My family physician told me that I must have gallstones and referred me to a GI doctor. The GI guy (whom I'll call 'Dr. India') did an endoscopy and found no evidence of problems or of stomach ulcers--and he told me that it "could only be gallbladder." I then had my gallbladder removed. At the post-op visits, I mentioned my concern that, instead of feeling better (as everyone had told me I would), I was feeling infinitely worse. He just shrugged.

So I went home. And I didn't go back to him for another two years. Then, when the pain was continuing, I went to see him. He gave me a battery of blood tests, all of which came back "normal." At which point, he began telling me that I was "killing myself with stress." He asked me about my marriage, and when I told him that my marriage was probably the least stressful part of my life, he declared, "You are lying."

I stayed calm, and I kept asking questions. Why was my SED rate showing up as four times the normal limit? "It means you have some inflammation in your system," he snapped. Finally, he sighed and had me lay down on the table. He pressed a spot under my ribs--and I screamed and nearly levitated to the ceiling! "Ah," he said, "You may have something. I think you have costochondritis." Which is an inflammation around your sternum. I was relieved that he at least thought I had something.

He sent me to a rheumatologist, who discovered that there wasn't a single pressure-point on my entire body that wasn't painful. He prescribed muscle relaxants. Over several months, I kept asking him why the joint and muscle aches didn't bother me nearly as much as the terrible diarrhea and abdominal pain. But he just kept telling me that digestive problems were part of fibromyalgia. Eventually, I gave up and stopped taking the muscle relaxants.

So now it's 1999 (four years after my first visit to a GI doctor), and I'm having lower quadrant abdominal pain so severe that I can barely shuffle to work. I think it's a pulled muscle. I finally call my family physician, who gets me an emergency CTscan--which shows that, no, I don't have acute appendicitis. I have Crohn's and an intestinal blockage requiring immediate surgery.

DO NOT STAY WITH YOUR CURRENT DOCTOR. If you can't find a good GI doctor by yourself, post something on this forum, asking if anyone knows a good GI doctor in your area. That's how I found my wonderful, knowledgeable, humane GI doctor when we moved to a new city nine months ago.

Good luck! And don't let anybody--anybody--tell you that this is all in your head!