might try the "interview appointments" sounds necessary. thanks for the heads up :) glad to know i am not only one who thinks he is rude i am ditching this GI, no doubt. glad you found a good one...
thank you for your response. yes i did not know that; that is good to know re the cymbalta. i hope i get answers from the sbft too. all you can do is ask for one; might be good for clarification. you...
Have you guys ever been so insulted by GI doctor? he is acting as if i am crazy i have developed joint pain and inflammation in my body. glossitis, etc; this appeared after colonoscopy, which was...
getting small bowel follow through tomorrow. in so much pain had to take advil because joints all over hurt know it is not good for the stomach but have nothing else and Tylenol-codeine 3 made me...
i am so sorry for what you are going through - it sounds like a nightmare and i really do not have much advice. i am sorry for that. but i am sending hope for some sort of relief for you take care x...
yes ER did the CT and i agree ER will never be able to help with whatever is going on; the doctor was taking notes in a note pad examining me in ER; clearly concerned and did advise me that this is...
thank you; you are all very nice. i appreciate you guys' help i am getting the C reactive protein results from blood this week. they are screening for all sorts of different things because GI...
thank you. yes maybe i should go to ER. i am really trying to avoid it if i can. i am still in pain. i will stop the Advil. I did not take any today and it is still painful but just crampy not...
i am supposed to move back to europe in less than 1 month. how can i do that now??? i have health insurance there too but how can i make the flight if i am so weak....
i have never experienced such severe pain it began with yellow mucus with gas and tiny stool happened about 3 times i usually have diarrhea so that was weird i could not sleep i took a paracetamol...
what i would like to know though is if i do have crohn's and i do not know yet is mucus passed with gas indicative of anything really dangerous if it is this ?...
thank you so much. your post is really helpful and makes me feel so much better to know that someone has dealed with same frustration. i am SO sorry for what you have gone through in the past with...
update: same thing just happened except i had to run to the bathroom because it felt like i would have explosive diarrhea. which has happened to me quite a bit. once while i was in bed and was really...
my entire body is in pain but my right side of abdomen especially. sometimes i can barely walk without feeling like i will collapse no one can find what i have wrong and i am sick of it thank you for...
no medications just advil and tylenol 3 for pain I have a GI- he ordered the small bowel imaging test but sent me to a rheumatologist the rheumatologist told me that he thinks this is GI related, but...
ok guys so i do not know what is going on or if i have crohn's because they cannot seem to find anything i have a small bowel imaging test in few weeks but i am having symptoms that are highly...
ok -- thank you. good advice. appreciate your response. x...
ok so i am currently under "undiagnosable" highly probable crohn's 2 trips to ER in past 2 days due to extreme pain and TMJ disorder- second time i have arthritis everywhere. new locking jaw problem....
thank you :) i am going to try it. anything helps at this point....
thank you for your help and concern @noodlesnoodles it helps to speak with people, even if i find out this is not my problem i do not know i just hope to find some sort of relief. x...
my GI did not diagnose. it was a doctor i did not know when i went for pain in ER. i do not think she really knew how to diagnose. i am not taking it as a diagnosis, but that i need to go back to the...
i am so thin from so much diarrhea 5-10 times per day for over 1 year have other symptoms that do not indicate IBS (slightly inflamed colon wall in CT scan with iodine), but negative colonoscopy and...
ok so in the past three years i have had chronic diarrhea had some bleeding for awhile -- but not much-- with stool also had problem with uncontrollable vomiting that led me in hospital for...
Thank you. I need to do pill cam-- they saw some inflammation in CT scan again...but it is not that inflamed they said-- i do not understand that. I just got back from ER (was more of an urgent...
Thank you @cyclinglady it was in the ER i am going to get the blood tests. the results were not even processed when i was discharged. i want to know what it says. i am having extreme pain in right...
So, I have many symptoms of crohn's. my GI thought I definitely had a IBD after a barium x ray --- there showed some inflammation -- but later was told that it could have been a shadow, where the...