Re: Belly Issues that are all in my head

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Stephie101-I think this is more common than not. My latest is the incident with the psychiatrist the County health people sent me to. I had already been diagnosed with ADD but since I went in there crying, I had a lot of bad things going on and was struggling with the diagnosis at the time, she automatically diagnosed me with bipolar and gave me a bipolar medication. The medication made me extremely nasty in only 4 days and gave me such a bad headache that I didn’t take anymore. I have had doctors actually yell at me for asking questions. More than one doctor has yelled at me like I was simple or stupid. My parents were doctors, I worked for a veterinarian as a surgical assistant, I took human anatomy and physiology in college so I have a little knowledge. I guess making the link between what I know and what is happening to me is impaired because of the ADD. Now I look everything up on the internet before I go to a doctor.

My mother used to go to a doctor that had her pegged as a hypochondriac. When she started taking me to see him it was ‘like mother like daughter”. He treated my ADD symptoms with thyroid even though my thyroid was in the normal range. Of course, back then, ADD was almost an unknown, especially in teens and young adults. He treated her double heart murmur and other serious medical conditions as “in her head”. If she had gone to a heart doctor instead they probably would have replaced the leaking valves. She is almost 89 and doing very well never having had heart surgery so kudos to her for keeping going anyway.

I am glad you are going to a G.I. He will find out what is wrong. I had an ulcer in my esophagus once that started bleeding and the hospital made sure it had not perforated then referred me to a G.I. I healed up just fine with the medication he gave me. The ulcer was my fault. I was being worked to death at my job and had taken prescription strength ibuprophen with no water because I felt I didn’t have time to stop and get a drink and it got stuck and burned a hole in my esophagus. I guess that’s kind of an ADD thing to do, I don’t know.

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