Journal: Entry for Lupine
Since some people were following and many gave very helpful advice and encouragement...
I had my sigmoidoscopy a week ago. They didn't find anything exciting (lots of mucus, but that's about it). That said, the physician's assistant who has been seeing me never spared a second to actually talk to me and didn't seem to know what my symptoms were. I found out yesterday he's just had major surgery and will be out for a month, so perhaps he's been rather preoccupied.
After they found nothing, my intention was to go home, eat healthy, deal with the symptoms, and stop paying doctors for stressing me out and telling me nothing. I had actually been getting better before the scope, anyway - no vomiting for four days straight!
... things got much worse after the scope.
At this point my stomach seems to have recovered somewhat (today is a good day), which is great, but I have also been running fevers all week, sometimes rather high ones. No idea what's up with that. They can generally be controlled with ibuprofen/water/cool baths and are gone in the morning.
Since I feel better today, I'm back to the pre-scope philosophy, but will obviously keep an eye on stuff. If it doesn't get better, I'm determined to go back to my GP in my parents' hometown, because while it may be far away, she's the only doctor who has actually seemed to care about the underlying cause. (When I called the GI office where I had my scope, they just told me to take pepto bismo. Morons.)
I had my sigmoidoscopy a week ago. They didn't find anything exciting (lots of mucus, but that's about it). That said, the physician's assistant who has been seeing me never spared a second to actually talk to me and didn't seem to know what my symptoms were. I found out yesterday he's just had major surgery and will be out for a month, so perhaps he's been rather preoccupied.
After they found nothing, my intention was to go home, eat healthy, deal with the symptoms, and stop paying doctors for stressing me out and telling me nothing. I had actually been getting better before the scope, anyway - no vomiting for four days straight!
... things got much worse after the scope.
At this point my stomach seems to have recovered somewhat (today is a good day), which is great, but I have also been running fevers all week, sometimes rather high ones. No idea what's up with that. They can generally be controlled with ibuprofen/water/cool baths and are gone in the morning.
Since I feel better today, I'm back to the pre-scope philosophy, but will obviously keep an eye on stuff. If it doesn't get better, I'm determined to go back to my GP in my parents' hometown, because while it may be far away, she's the only doctor who has actually seemed to care about the underlying cause. (When I called the GI office where I had my scope, they just told me to take pepto bismo. Morons.)
ugh. I hate doctors like that.
It seems that the more specialized you get, the less you care about your patient.
At this point, I would really recommend going back to your GP, and Clover, GO. Fevers are NOT good. Fevers are indicative of either infection or autoimmune disease. Both of which are perfectly manageable if you know about them!! You shouldn't "manage" a fever, unless you happen to know it's a virus you can't treat.
Keep in mind, that if you're infected with something, and you have a fever, you're also shedding whatever has infected you. It may only be fecally (likely the case in your case), but woman? If you were a horse I'd be pokin' at you so bad trying to figure out wtf your problem was.
Of course, do keep in mind I AM a horse person, and uncontrolled GI problems are typically fatal in horses
At this point, I would really recommend going back to your GP, and Clover, GO. Fevers are NOT good. Fevers are indicative of either infection or autoimmune disease. Both of which are perfectly manageable if you know about them!! You shouldn't "manage" a fever, unless you happen to know it's a virus you can't treat.
Keep in mind, that if you're infected with something, and you have a fever, you're also shedding whatever has infected you. It may only be fecally (likely the case in your case), but woman? If you were a horse I'd be pokin' at you so bad trying to figure out wtf your problem was.
Of course, do keep in mind I AM a horse person, and uncontrolled GI problems are typically fatal in horses
I almost called you yesterday.
Was starting to wonder if you'd up and left w/o telling me.
I don't have much more to say about the health stuff, except that I'm always in support of talking to doctors with whom you actually felt a connection, whether from them knowing something and telling you or just because they were friendly enough to chat with you about stuff. You're going to feel way more comfortable there, and willing to ask more questions/give more info. They have more of a chance of finding things out that way than the best tight-lipped diagnostician.
I don't have much more to say about the health stuff, except that I'm always in support of talking to doctors with whom you actually felt a connection, whether from them knowing something and telling you or just because they were friendly enough to chat with you about stuff. You're going to feel way more comfortable there, and willing to ask more questions/give more info. They have more of a chance of finding things out that way than the best tight-lipped diagnostician.
House is in New Jersey I think....go visit him. 
I don't have much more to say about your health stuff....I wish I did, and like I've told you before, I can at least empathize, because I've had GI problems before. They never figured out what mine were, and they went away with time....but they were very unpleasant while I had them.
Get better and keep us updated.
Get better and keep us updated.