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@evergreen2022

I'm fine with a neurologist referring me gastroenterologist for that area. I am NOT fine with doctors now using it as an excuse. They can't solve it, so they don't believe you. So they send you to someone else. If, as I have done, you have seen all these specialists, and you still get sent somewhere else. Or as the neurologist did, I didn't have Parkinson's Disease, which I am eternally grateful for, so they were done with me. It takes a patient's time and money to run around and see other doctors in specialties you have already seen. Or, back to one for something that was already diagnosed. If I lived close to Mayo Clinic, I would definitely go to their Fibromyalgia center. There is no cure, and some things just don't work. The battle against Fibromyalgia is on going and most of it is up to the patient. Find things that work.And do them.

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Believe me I have been through all this for years, with myself and my daughter. We avoid wild goose chases. I have stuck with my neurologist, who is pretty sharp but probably missing things, because he doesn't do anything! No referrals to other doctors, or to imaging or EMG's (had those in the past) and he BELIEVES me. I have about 15 diagnoses with him and we joke about "having enough codes."