fed up with my invisible dr.!!!!!

Yeah, that is kinda vague. Make an appoinment and discuss this. My GI discusses everything with me. I already had like 3 colonoscopies in a year.

You should see if you can make an appt sooner to see the GI for clarification.

Usually the meds we take are for long term - such as the Sulfasalazine. These meds are designed to keep inflammation down on a continual basis and it's usually recommended you stay on them. Rectal meds - eh, that depends on how well you respond to them.

In my past experience, you want to continue your care with a GI and not a primary (family doc). GI's are better trained to deal with your condition. So once again, I highly recommend you see if you can get an appt sooner then in December.

quincy, yep, this is the doc that originally diagnosed me. I met with him for a initial appt. then scheduled the c scope. He told me the findings while still foggy from the scope and I do not remember one thing he said. My husband said that he the dr. was not concerned that this was not a big deal. have not heard from him or seen him since that day.

Some GI are more like internal med docs, and can act as the primary to follow someone's UC. Others are truly specialists that do scoping and diagnosis and do not follow patients. I would not expect the radiologist who does/reads my brain MRI to follow treatment of my pituitary adenoma. That is what I have an endocrinologist for.

If you have somehow gotten in with a GI who mostly works as a diagnostician on referral from other doctors, and is assuming you will have an internist/primary to follow your treatment, then you need to get someone to follow your treatment. Complaining that the specialist who diagnosed you does not have the kind of practice you want is not going to help anything. Unless you ask this GI to follow your treatment and he/she agrees. You should have a conversation and find out what the relationship is.

I actually think you need another GI anyway, because you have already deconstructed every interaction and every sentence of the form letter sent with the results, and you have found a lot of fault, and displayed a lot of contempt. Do yo really think your relationship with this GI can recover form that? Do you really see yourself trusting this guy?

Whether it is in part your misunderstanding about the relationship, or actually this guy's lousy manner with patients, I don't see you making nice with this GI.

It is sad to hear you are frustrated and feel out of the loop and feel under-served. I hope you can establish a relationship you like better with another physician, and I hope you get remission.

Post Edited (DBwithUC) : 10/26/2012 11:45:48 AM (GMT-6)

Maybe your observation about working out of 5 locations speaks to him being stretched thin and relying too much on office staff and form letters.

I can see you want more information, and sooner appointments. He seems booked a ways out.

The letter was vague because some info form the provider's office, like prescription and scheduled appointment was merged with general advice form the center generating the report, like "another scoping in 10 years"

Maybe hte advice about "followup with primary" was also part fo the generic form and not specific instructions form his office. But you question, "Does he not want to see me?", and the "fed up with invisible dr. !!!!!" title of the thread says volumes about the prognosis of you future relation with this guy.

I think you need to find someone where you can get in sooner (or more often) and GI or the nurse can answer questions about medications and test results ... etc. While it is true you asked if others thought it was vague too, your line by line comments and the thread title really say you are done with this guy.