One thing I have a hard time understanding is how the medical community could miss such a simple problem that changed my severe abdominal cramps! I was suffering from anywhere to mild to severe pain.
Mild in that, sometimes I'd just have underlying cramping.
Other times I'd have severe pain and loose stool so badly that one time I went to the hospital.
I went to the hospital because it was on my right-side.
This particular doctor sent me to the hospital, concerned about my appendix.
The surgeon came in and felt my right-side which was painful.
He said, "Yep, we need to take it out immediately.
" Fearful, I looked toward my husband and said, "Surgery? Can't we at least get a test?" Then, finally they did a CAT scan.
Yep, all looked okay.
After a while, the pain started to subside, and I ended up with loose stool.
I was a bit embarrassed, and felt kinda like everyone was looking at me like a drama queen.
The pain would come and go, the severity level fluctuating with it along with my stomach actually bloating in various spots.
I started going to doctors about it in my early twenties, and continued going to various doctors (internists, family, and GI doctors) for 15 years.
I had blood tests, urine tests, stool tests, a colonoscopy, an endocscopy, a biopsy...
and no one had answers.
Then the dreaded answer came...
"irritable bowel syndrome".
I felt like I was handed a card that said, "the stomach syndrome that we can't diagnose".
I'm beginning to think that everyone just has to have a name for his/her medical condition so that he/she will close the issue.
Pretty soon, undiagnosed headaches will be called "irritable head syndrome".
Painful undiagnosed leg pain will be called, "irritable leg syndrome".
Finally, one day, I was looking up lactose intolerance symptoms for my one year old son.
Yep, there they were! There were my symptoms which are as followed as described by MedicineNet.
com: abdominal pain, diarrhea, flatulence (passing gas), abdominal bloating, abdominal distention, and nausea.
Hey, what did I have to lose? I gave it a shot.
I removed all dairy from my diet.
Within just a few days of NO milk, NO cheese, NO sour cream, NO ice cream, NO milkshakes (my personally favorite), NO anything dairy related...
sure enough my pain went away, and stayed away! So here's my question: Why didn't ANY doctor's suggest this? Couldn't have even ONE doctor say to me, "Hey, have you considered you may be lactose intolerant, or that you may have a food allergy of some kind?" Nope not one.
Hey, get this.
Almost every one of my family members: both my sisters, my mom, my dad, even some of my aunts have had their gall bladders removed.
Check out http://www.
gallbladderattack.
com.
The symptoms look frighteningly like the symptoms of lactose intolerance.
NOW I'm not saying that people don't have gall bladder problems, but I am wondering how many people get their gall bladder removed that don't need to? My dad had his removed, and his pain stayed.
When I removed dairy from my diet and my pain ceased, my dad gave it a try.
At 70 years old, he finally has no pain, after years of tests and even the removal of gall bladder and appendix.
This should be scaring people.
Are we having our insides removed for no reason? Personally I figure God gave me my organs for a reason, I much rather keep them.
Do you realize that an appendix helps produce good bacteria that helps your colon properly fight against bad bacteria? Do you realize that a gall bladder helps bile to be squirted down the ducts into the small intestine to help to breakdown the fats when you eat a meal that contains fats? Yep, I think I'd just assume keep those, thank you very much.
Mild in that, sometimes I'd just have underlying cramping.
Other times I'd have severe pain and loose stool so badly that one time I went to the hospital.
I went to the hospital because it was on my right-side.
This particular doctor sent me to the hospital, concerned about my appendix.
The surgeon came in and felt my right-side which was painful.
He said, "Yep, we need to take it out immediately.
" Fearful, I looked toward my husband and said, "Surgery? Can't we at least get a test?" Then, finally they did a CAT scan.
Yep, all looked okay.
After a while, the pain started to subside, and I ended up with loose stool.
I was a bit embarrassed, and felt kinda like everyone was looking at me like a drama queen.
The pain would come and go, the severity level fluctuating with it along with my stomach actually bloating in various spots.
I started going to doctors about it in my early twenties, and continued going to various doctors (internists, family, and GI doctors) for 15 years.
I had blood tests, urine tests, stool tests, a colonoscopy, an endocscopy, a biopsy...
and no one had answers.
Then the dreaded answer came...
"irritable bowel syndrome".
I felt like I was handed a card that said, "the stomach syndrome that we can't diagnose".
I'm beginning to think that everyone just has to have a name for his/her medical condition so that he/she will close the issue.
Pretty soon, undiagnosed headaches will be called "irritable head syndrome".
Painful undiagnosed leg pain will be called, "irritable leg syndrome".
Finally, one day, I was looking up lactose intolerance symptoms for my one year old son.
Yep, there they were! There were my symptoms which are as followed as described by MedicineNet.
com: abdominal pain, diarrhea, flatulence (passing gas), abdominal bloating, abdominal distention, and nausea.
Hey, what did I have to lose? I gave it a shot.
I removed all dairy from my diet.
Within just a few days of NO milk, NO cheese, NO sour cream, NO ice cream, NO milkshakes (my personally favorite), NO anything dairy related...
sure enough my pain went away, and stayed away! So here's my question: Why didn't ANY doctor's suggest this? Couldn't have even ONE doctor say to me, "Hey, have you considered you may be lactose intolerant, or that you may have a food allergy of some kind?" Nope not one.
Hey, get this.
Almost every one of my family members: both my sisters, my mom, my dad, even some of my aunts have had their gall bladders removed.
Check out http://www.
gallbladderattack.
com.
The symptoms look frighteningly like the symptoms of lactose intolerance.
NOW I'm not saying that people don't have gall bladder problems, but I am wondering how many people get their gall bladder removed that don't need to? My dad had his removed, and his pain stayed.
When I removed dairy from my diet and my pain ceased, my dad gave it a try.
At 70 years old, he finally has no pain, after years of tests and even the removal of gall bladder and appendix.
This should be scaring people.
Are we having our insides removed for no reason? Personally I figure God gave me my organs for a reason, I much rather keep them.
Do you realize that an appendix helps produce good bacteria that helps your colon properly fight against bad bacteria? Do you realize that a gall bladder helps bile to be squirted down the ducts into the small intestine to help to breakdown the fats when you eat a meal that contains fats? Yep, I think I'd just assume keep those, thank you very much.
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