DO NOT let your doctor get away with that. I had to go to 4 different doctors before one would even begin to test me for anything. It is 100% within your rights to request specific test. Heather mentions them on this site, I'll have to look up exactly where, but they include being tested for celiac disease, for starters. I printed out the entire list and brought it to the doc who finally diagnosed me with gastroparesis, with IBS symptoms, after doing a gastric emptying test as well as a sitz-marker test. I pretty much told the specialist that I refused to even HEAR the word IBS until everything else had been ruled out. Mind you, my symptoms started 3/02 and it took until 2/04 to finally get the correct diagnosis. The first doctor I went to told me the same thing yours did - "Eat more bran". He ran NO tests, didn't even take my height/weight/blood pressure...GRRRR that makes me so mad when docs do that.
Please, for your health, do not let this go. Your doctor might be willing to pay more attention if he was slapped with a medical malpractice lawsuit down the road for not taking the time to diagnose you correctly - I'm in the middle of such a lawsuit as we speak.
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