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Having Difficulty Getting Diagnosis
Chronic Pain | Last Active: Feb 3, 2023 | Replies (46)Comment receiving replies
@austin132 I also add my welcome to you here at Mayo Connect. It has to be very upsetting to have these tests and no answers!
You mentioned you deal with chronic pain issues throughout your body, even before the vaccination. If you care to explain, are you on any medications for those issues, or treatment? I wonder if there is a reaction between medications and the vaccine? What are the possibilities you can be referred to a good internist in addition to the urologist you already have an appt with?
Like @becsbuddy mentioned, keeping a journal of the signs you see will go a long way to helping a dr piece together the big picture. You have been very through in knowing what tests you have been through, and writing out what is going on may also help relieve some of the anxiety you are feeling. How does that sound to you?
Ginger
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Hi Ginger,
Sorry for the late response. I have had a lot of Dr’s appointments and haven’t had the chance to login to reply. I don’t think I had worded my phrase correctly in my initial post. I did not have any sort of chronic pain until I had received the Covid 19 vaccine. That being said I was on no medications prior to receiving the shot. As for getting an appointment with an internist, I am not sure at the moment. My Dr. has thrown that idea out there but has since thought we need to go the GI and Urology route since those are my main two issues. I might need to bring that idea up again though because I need someone to see the picture as a whole. I feel sometimes the Dr’s I’m seeing are only looking at single symptoms when I feel there is a root cause to why the symptoms are happening. I’m not a Dr. so I can’t make any judgement calls like that but I get frustrated because of it. Thank you for the reply to my post!