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Having Difficulty Getting Diagnosis

Chronic Pain | Last Active: Jul 11 7:04am | Replies (67)

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@austin132

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!

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@austin132 Looking at the whole picture is often crucial to putting pieces together and figuring out the issues to address. We cannot expect our primary care dr to be able to see what a specialist might see, that's for sure. In my health journey, I have learned to work with specialist of different sorts [oncologist, nephrologist, dermatologist, urologist, in addition to my primary care], and one thing is they look at the different things, but study the trends in my labwork. Keeping detailed notes about my symptoms help both them and me, noting specific things, times of day, food eaten, triggers, etc. This has helped me eliminate detrimental factors, and I don't have to rely on my memory to relate things to my team.

I will be interested to hear what your team finds out, and how it is resolved. Please let me know, and let me know if you have any other questions?
Ginger