How do I successfully get an appointment?

Posted by bomo @bomo, Nov 28, 2022

I have Sjogren’s disease, have managed Type 1 diabetes for 47 years, and have had Graves’ disease and Graves’ ophthalmopathy. I was recently diagnosed with breast cancer (surgery in 2 weeks) and am having another biopsy on my neck. However, none of that even comes close to the anguish of two years of gastrointestinal distress that includes random vomiting and constant diarrhea (10 episodes before noon today) despite high dose anti-diarrheals. I have nearly passed out many times over the past month and my blood pressure was 88/56 at the radiologist. (And I haven’t even started radiation.) I have lost 19-20 pounds from my normal healthy weight. I also have nerve pain, intermittent numbness in extremities (not diabetes related) and my voice is impaired. As you might imagine, keeping up with my job running a business is challenging to say the least. When I got rejected by Mayo today, I was really deflated and not sure what to do next. Can someone please tell me how to successfully get an appointment?

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christijeanlv | @christijeanlv | Jul 31 4:26pm

In reply to @colleenyoung "Welcome @bomo, It must be so disappointing to get that letter that there are no appointments..." + (show)

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GDCM | @gdcm | Aug 4 10:08am

Keep calling the department to ask if they are accepting new patients. It took me many months to get in to Gastroenterology at Mayo Clinic, I set my iPhone Calendar and called weekly…one day, the answer was “YES”. Thirteen years later, ALL of my physicians, including my PCP are now at the Mayo Clinic AZ. Don’t give up, keep trying!