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In need of help....

by Steve Monti
(Mesa, Az)

Hello I am 30 and I have been having pain since I was 13. But within the past 3 years it has gotten to be unbearable. I am on my second doctor and they only want to perscribe Anti-depresent medication?? Th epain I get is around the upper stomach, that is a constant pain pretty much all day everyday. And also pain in the lower abdoman area.
I do have sometimes sharp pains and black colored stool for days. 3 it has gotten to the point where I am rushed to the hospital. I have had 2 different ER doctors tell me there is a substantial amount of scarring in my intestens. But my current doctor has said nothing everytime I ask him. I have had both an upper and a lower GI done. The upper GI can back as abnormal?? The lower came back as "poor prep" but I've seen the pictures and the looked clean to me.
I am getting tired of all the pain I have to look forward to everyday. And getting tired of getting new doctors because they tell me there is nothing they can do for me. I have changed my diet many different times in the past years to try IBS and stiil the same result. If there is anybody that can offer some advice or some dirrection on what I can do or ask my doctor to do please let me know.

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Apr 17, 2009
 crohns
by: nancy

steve you need to find a specailist that deals with crohns disease. the regular doctors can't handle this. I go to a gastoenterolongist and he knows his stuff.
Apr 16, 2009
 specialist
by: Tod

go to a Gastroenerologist. Your GP should be shot
Apr 16, 2009
 RESPONSE
by: Anonymous

I am a chron's sufferer and I really feel for you.My gp is not experienced enough in this field so I always have to go to the specialist team at the hospitol. When I first started getting symptoms I must of gone to my doctor 15 -20 times in 6 months and they were still fobbing me off. They think I wasn't telling the truth. In the end after a year and a half I had to get forceful with them and I asked for a referral myself. They asked why and I said because I know there is something seriously wrong with me. I would be in excruciating pain in bed for 3 to 4 days being sick and feeling like my belly is on fire. I hope that you get somewhere in the future. Apparently different areas in the world deal differently with IBD sufferers.
Apr 15, 2009
 in need of help
by: Anonymous

hi i know how you feel about doctors , my wife had same problem they made her admit that she was anorexic because she lost so much weight ,it was a
year after they found she had crohns disease. she only found out by having a cat scan it showed she had the disease and had to loose her large bowel and had to wear a colostomy bag .the way to tell is if you have constant diorea and loose weight they are the first tell tale signs. they never gave her medication for crohns because they said it had gone ,it came back with a vengense now she has only 18 centimetres of small bowel left and she lost a kidney too .if i were you i would insist on a cat scan to give you peace of mind . good luck hope its not crohns .

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