Throughout my journey of constantly seeing GI doctors and specialists for my abnormal weight loss and early satiety, I saw my second GI doctor to whom I stayed with for a couple of years until recently. I noticed he treated me like a kid as I got older and rarely believed my symptoms. No matter what I told him, he would speak with me alone and pull my mother side to ask if everything was alright at home. He was concerned for my safety and well being and was curious to why the medicines he gave me weren’t working for me. I went from prescription to the next and I still had trouble swallowing and digesting food properly. This particular doctor, tho whom I am leaving the name out in this case, never spoke highly of his accomplishments with patients. Their stories were like my stories where everything was ALL IN MY HEAD!
The pain was constant and I never had a break from it all. It was torture. I rarely slept, developed insomnia, melatonin didn’t even fix that issue. This GI doctor knew me well for years and yet never believed me when I would continuously complain to him about my symptoms. He told me I needed to see a specialist of some kind in psychology where they can help me. I went from those doctors to DBT, CBT, Group Therapy, Hypnosis, you name it. Everything was exactly the same.
The pain was constant and I never had a break from it all. It was torture. I rarely slept, developed insomnia, melatonin didn’t even fix that issue. This GI doctor knew me well for years and yet never believed me when I would continuously complain to him about my symptoms. He told me I needed to see a specialist of some kind in psychology where they can help me. I went from those doctors to DBT, CBT, Group Therapy, Hypnosis, you name it. Everything was exactly the same.
Unfortunately my mom continued to take me to this GI doctor and insisted we stay for a while longer since my siblings had him and he’s had pretty positive recommendations for their doctors. I didn’t believe he looked at my images or reports. I felt like my case was so absurd and rare that he glanced at my reports and believed his instincts from his testing results. Meanwhile all he did was an Endoscopy and Colonoscopy in 2017 which proved basically nothing but a list of GI issues. Most of these rare conditions are replaced by these GI issues. He couldn’t help me anymore at this point. It was time to move on and I was tired of the same response where EVERYTHING WAS ALL IN MY HEAD!
I didn’t have a mental disorder, an eating disorder, but I did eventually develop an anxiety disorder from all this nonsense. I am hoping no one else has to go through the amount of appointments and struggles I went through in order to finally change doctors.
After seeing a few vascular surgeons discussing my results with this evil doctor, I promise you he never looked at my images. He requested I see a doctor in NY who seemingly studies MALS and cured three of his patients with laparoscopy surgery. Well, a few calls later and the doctor had no idea what I was talking about so that was a red flag and a cross off the list of doctors to visit. Honestly there were so many red flags, I don’t know why we didn’t leave him sooner.
Finally, I left
