This happened a long time ago. I was 17 years old, and in the hospital. For the previous 7 months I had been so sick to my stomach that I couldn't hardly eat any food at all. Everytime I did I would either throw up, or be so sick to my stomach for hours and hours. I lost alot of weight too during the 7 months. My GI doctor at the time decided to put me in the hospital for a week, and do a calorie count on me, and run some tests to maybe figure out what was wrong with me. In the hospital the only tests he ever did was blood work, and some x-rays of my abdomen. My calorie counts came back very low too. I think I was eating somewhere around 200 or 300 calories a day. My GI doctor decided to have a psychologist come in to evaluate me.
Later on, at 9:30PM the psychologist showed up at my room to see me. He talked with me for about 25 minutes, asking me various questions like "Where do you get sick the most, is it at school?" I answered "It doesn't matter where I'm at, I get sick everywhere, even school". Then I told him about an experience I had in Wal-Mart when I got around the perfume area, I felt like I couldn't breathe from all the different smells. He started to tell me that I had Panic attacks, school avoidance, and obsessive compulsive disorder. Of course I went frantic, and was crying very bad. My nurse called my mom, and she came back to the hospital. By this time it was around 11 or 11:30pm, and the psychologist had already left.
Later on the next day, my GI doctor came in to see me very early. My mom was there too. She got up early because she wanted to be at the hospital when my GI doctor showed up. My GI doctor more or less told me that there was nothing else he could do to help me, and that it was all in my head. He didn't even bother to do an endoscopy and look IN my stomach, or any other test that would help him find out the problem. He just took the easy way out by saying it was in my head. That's the easiest diagnosis.
I switched doctors, knowing that there was something wrong with me, and I also went to another psychologist to be evaluated. The new psychologist said that the other psychologist was totally wrong, and that I didn't have ANY of those problems that he said I did. Later on when I got my records I found out that he twisted the things I had told him. He wrote down that I especially got sick at school, which was a lie. And as far as school avoidance I was the type of kid that never missed a day of school. My new GI doctors were from Children's Hospital. Right away they did an endoscopy and looked in my stomach. They discovered that I had active Crohn's Disease in my stomach too, plus the Crohn's Disease I already had in my bowels. My NEW GI doctors said that is exactly why I wasn't able to eat, and why I was sick all the time. My other GI doctor was wrong, and so was the psychologist. Just goes to show you how some doctors can be about things. He didn't look any further as to why I was sick, and look, I had Crohn's in my stomach. <>sigh<> I went through alot of suffering before anyone really helped me with it.
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