(Excerpt taken from document of previous experiences)
My gi doctor did a colonoscopy on me. I already had one colonoscopy performed just 3 years prior by another gi doctor who found a polyp. However, the first gi doctor did not want to do another check because he said I was too young to have polyps or any problems. I thought too myself “if I’m too young, then what about the fact that he found one?” my second gi doctor wanted to check for himself.
He found no polyps, but my colon and rectum were definitely showing spasms throughout. I contacted my regular gynecologist regarding my pain and what the emergency room doctor had said about me having endometriosis. She said “oh, what do emergency room doctors know?” but she did think it was important to at least check out. So she referred me to another gynecologist .
I went for my appointment and I laid out everything that had happened to me and all that I had been through. I told him that I only had pain from ibs when my period was on. He stopped me before I could go on with the rest of my saga and said to his assistant that he had just lectured his students on ibs and how ibs pain would not just show up during one’s menstrual cycle. I went on with my story and he examined me and diagnosed me with endometriosis. I am scheduled to have a procedure in November for final diagnosis and removal of excess tissue.
I’m not going to say yet that I was mis-diagnosed. That would probably be unfair. I’ll wait until after the surgery and see how my periods go. However, the diagnosis of endometriosis sure does make a whole lot more sense to me than this ibs.
Why didn’t my regular ob/gyn diagnosis me with this endo? I see her every year.
Why didn’t my regular ob/gyn refer my to another gyn first instead of to the gi doctor and urologist?
Why did I have to go through this ordeal for over a year?
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