Irritable Bowel Syndrome Message Boards | Saw my new doctor today...

Well, I went to my new doctor today (I finally got into an actual clinic rather than just going to University Student Health) and I was suprisinginly impressed

I saw a resident first who took an extremely thorough history and spent almost an hour going over my past history, family history, symptoms and all previous test results. Then she went and discussed it with more senior doctor who came in and promised that he would get to the bottom of this as soon as possible.

He said given my symptoms and severe weight loss he didn't think it was right for the GI doc to just say it was IBS just because the colonoscopy was negative, so they are going to start from scratch and try and get things sorted out.

He was really nice, said that the goal for right now would be to try and make me more comfortable, and then start investigating and find out what's cooking so they can establish an appropriate treatment plan and stop the weight loss.

Just to start today he ordered a bunch of stool tests (yuck!) and a bunch of blood work, and I'm going back in a week.

So fingers crossed that this will work out for me!

Just wanted to share my news,
Kelly

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