Hi,
I was "diagnosed" with IBS last year, without any proper examination by my doctor. After relentless efforts to get an accurate diagnosis, I was admitted to hospital last month for a laparoscopy.
Instead of a silly diagnostic test, the doctor had to perform a laparotomy, because all my pelvic organs were infested with endometriosis. My bowel was stuck to my left ovary and I had a huge chocolate cyst in the left ovary. No wonder I was in excruciating pain for the last year or so.
I now have to deal with the painful truth: I may never be able to have children, since my doctor waited for over a year to admit that his first diagnosis may have been wrong. My left ovary is damaged beyond repair and it is not certain that my right ovary is still ok. I'm only 26...
Please, if your doctor says you have IBS, make sure it's the correct diagnosis! I thank Heather for her wonderful books; they made me realise that my symptoms didn't match the IBS ones. Thanks to her books, the doctors maybe saved my chance of a child.
Thanks!
Els
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Don't accept a "diagnosis" of IBS without the proper tests...
