Irritable Bowel Syndrome Message Boards | Update: Hospital Meltdown -- Advice: Take Metamucil!!!!

Hi All,

So I made it through the colonoscopy prep on Tuesday, but felt just awful the entire day. The cramps in my stomach weren't quite as bad as I remember from last time but I fel like I was going to throw up the whole day - ick!

I went in for my colonoscopy and told them I needed lotsa drugs. I was supposed to go in at 10 but they couldn't get my IV started so I didn't end up going in 'til about 11. The test was alright, the drugs did seem to help and it went by pretty quickly. At the end of the test, the GI doc talked to me.... well, sort of.
I was lying on the exam table and she was sitting at a computer across the room, with her back to me!! She told me that first of all, I'd never had parasites. I said my GP said I did and I'd been on the medication for it for 10 days! She said no, the tests I had before don't show parasites. What the heck??
Then she said the colonoscopy looked fine, that I should take metamucil tablets and come back and see her in 2 months... WHAT THE HE!!???? I started to get upset and asked why I had to wait so long to see her, she said, "I am very busy, it's hard to get in to see me". I still am having major reflux issues, my toush is killing me all the time and then not to mention the constant D that now seems completely out of control.
And take metamucil??? I told her I'd been on 3 kinds of metamucil, two kinds of prodiem, benefiber, acacia... fiber alone is not the answer for me! She said, "Well, have you tried it in capsules?" and I said no, because everyone I've talked to says the capsules aren't as effective. She said to take the capsules. Then she told me that I could keep go back to taking immodium again if I'm incontinent. Then she left.
By the time they wheeled me into the recovery thing, I was panicked. My boyfriend came in and I just broke down and couldn't stop crying. The nurse came in and I explained what happened, so she said she would go ask my GI if there was anything else I could do. The nurse came back and told me to take metamucil.
I had a total meltdown and was sobbing like crazy. The nurse finally said to me that my GP must have been wrong about the parasites because my GI doc is the expert and if she says to take the fiber, that's what I should do. She told me I had to "take control and stay on top of this" so I feel less upset. Um, excuse me? I am the one that voluntarily came in for a camera up my @$$ and have to constantly chase up doctors appointments.
I came home, slept for a while, then my mom called and made me feel really guilty for not being back at work.
I feel really lousy, I've been on fiber supplements for the last 5 years and to have gone through all the prep and the test and everything to be told to just do what I've already done... it's so hard.

Thanks for reading, and for the support.

Steph

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