I completely understand about unsympathetic GI docs, too. I went to one who supposedly had a great reputation but who treated my symptoms as if they were nothing, even though they were debilitating to me. He did do blood tests, an Upper GI, and a Sigmoidoscopy, but said he knew without a colonoscopy that I didn't have IBD. Then once he had officially diagnosed me as having IBS he blew me off and pretty much told me to just eat more fiber and deal with it, just like so many others have heard. He seemed to think that if it wasn't Crohns or Colitis it wasn't worth wasting his time on. My mother has been bugging me recently to go to another doc who will do more tests and possibly get into some medication with me, but at this point I just have no desire to because I have no faith in the medical profession when it comes to dealing with IBS. It's sad that it has to get to that point for so many of us... but thank goodness for Heather. I don't know what we'd all do without her!
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Re: There's got to be some way to get doctors to GET A CLUE!
