FINALLY have an answer - PAIN???

While the last several months are supposed to be like heaven, right? Just got married and finally done with the stress of the wedding. Wrong!!! I've been so emotionally upset by my health issues and not quite sure where to turn at times other than my adoring husband, family & friends. At certain moments in our lives we all have to place trust in other people. Shouldn't be too hard when one of those people has gone to school to become a specialist in a certain field, right! Again...wrong! *at least not for me right now*

I don't know how many doctors appt's I've been to over the last 5 months, seen everyone from a GP, OB/GYN & 2 gastroenterologists all with the same EXACT frustrating freaking answer. 'Nothing is wrong with you,' while I mutter in the back of my head that 'believe me...something IS wrong with me.' You don't go from being an active, healthy individual who can eat, exercise, etc. with no issues to cringing in pain and waking up to spasms which feel like a metal rod going through your body for no reason. 5 months later...it all comes down to the same thing I've thought for months. Now while I have finally uncovered the source of my pain I realize how entirely frustration my situation has been. It's a bitter sweet moment as the end is near but the journey seems too long and frustrating to forget so quickly. 

Frankly I would like to punch the 1st gastroenterologist in the head right about now. After ordering an ultrasound to check for gallstones he wanted me to have a CT & endoscopy before ever talking to me about the results of any of them. Although the ultrasound came back negative I was so sure it was my gallbladder that I requested to have the doctor order another test (if such existed) to check my gallbladder functions. After a few phones calls and explanation of the amount of pain I was in the test was ordered. I had such a sense of surity that I would find out the results of such test and would be able to put the 2+ months of being unsure what was wrong with me behind me finally.

After calling and calling and leaving voice messages trying to find out the results of said test for a week I finally demanded that I speak with the doctor after getting the receptionist on the phone who told me that my test results were normal. Seriously the receptionist now has license to read medical reports? I had enough with this doctor's office and wanted to express my distention with their office protocol. The doctor gets on the phone, is short and rude to me cutting me off mid-sentence about 7 times, telling me that I should have done the tests in the order that he ordered them, I'm not the one with a medical background but he just ordered the test I requested. I finally asked him "do you care what I have to say?" The conversation on the phone was a dissemination of my frustration with not only him but the other GP & GYN doctors I had seen who dismissed my problem as 'unsolvable' because the one test they ran didn't come back with anything obvious. Ugg! So I told the gastroentrologist what I thought of him: he was rude, that I don't think the receptionist should be giving me my medical records result, that I didn't appreciate his office staff never returning the dozens of calls (through voicemail) and actual conversations, that he shouldn't treat me like my problems don't matter and that I would be going to a different doctor and would be requesting my test results from him. I was over the BS! (this all through tears in the parking lot of my office...fun day at work right???)

Within the one week that it was going to take to be seen by a family doctor who my husband and mother-in-law trust and loved I got to the point where going to the ER seemed like the only option I had. I couldn't take the pain anymore. The ER doc kicked me out of the ER telling me that they couldn't do anything for me there and referred me to a new gastro doctor (who saw me the same day...10 minutes before 5PM). Whoa! After 15 minutes of telling her my problem and expressing to her that YES! my pain is a constant 7 to 8 and has been she scheduled me for an endoscopy the next morning.

Now I have gastritis, can't eat or drink the things that I love and the pain still won't go away! Great!
...but on top of that she informed me that the rude gastro doctor did not order the correct type of test to test my gallbladder and therefore could not determine if that was the cause or not. Seriously!?! *hence me wanting to punch him in the face right now...as the realization that I would have to retake a $4300 test which may or may not be covered by insurance set upon me* I had no idea that while he was supposed to order me a test to test the functionality of my gallbladder, he did not in fact order the proper test to determine this. So the test results he gave me were 'correct' I guess although it did NOT test what it was supposed to on me. How am I NOT supposed to be upset???

After going back to my new wonderful doc who had all of my test results she let me know that everything came back negative...go figure right? Still in pain doc, I expressed!

... So a second HIDA scan (testing the gallbladder) later and 6 excrutiatingly long days of waiting for the reuslts I finally have the results back that my gallbladder is indeed bad and needs to come out! AHHHHH! This is what I've been saying for months! It's functioning at less than 1/3 of normal...no wonder it hurts!  

I'm so frustrated, overwhelmed and angry that because of the lack of 'caring' or in my words 'professionalism', 'diligence', 'due process', etc. I wouldn't have had to go through all of this and this issue could be behind me months ago. I don't know whether to let it go or scream "Don't go to these doctors...they're quacks" as loud as I can from a rooftop???

...Surgery to be scheduled. Thank god this nightmare is almost over...