Irritable Bowel Syndrome Message Boards | you are not going to believe this.........

Ok. so listen to my evening. My GI doc finally called me back-- he said to stick to a bland diet and that if it didn't help, I had to go through my family doc (WHY???). I don't understand that. I was in SO MUCH PAIN! So that didn;t help. SO I called my family doc ...who is new to me and doesn't know hardly anything about my IBS. He said there wasn't much he could do, and the nurse said I would be better off going to the ER. So...off we went. Got there, waited FOREVER. Finalyl got blood taken, my potassium was low and needed a pill for that. Got 2 rounds of pain meds (which helped beyond belief)..got an x-ray, which showed no impactions or anything. And then the doc came in. I was still in lots of pain and worried...here are hit direct words. "We think the pain might be due to your IBS, you can leave now"......... I just lost it. I was so sicck of everyone treating me like my IBS was fake, and that this pain--which is TOTALLY different from what I usually get-- wasn't that bad. Thank goodness for a very sweet nurse, but I just cried and cried...finally the doc, who wouldn't look me in the eye, and was very short and curt with me, said he'd do a rectal exam if I wasn't happy with what he said. He did that and said, yep- you're all good. So no answers... I am feeling ok today, i think the pain meds certainly helped...but seriously. I felt so little and so unimportant. I had severe pain and they acted like I could just suck it up...doesn't having IBS and trying to get doctors to understand everything just SUCK?

Well, I am a bit better this morning, so hopefully I can eat a bit and relax...oh, and they were reluctant to give me a work excuse for 2 days. They said 1 was ok, and then the nurse just whispered "don't worry, I'll get it sweetie"... but oh my. what a night.

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