My dad used to say, "your a fool to be your own lawyer, and your own doctor." well, I'm not very good as my own lawyer, but after like 15 emergency docs, a dozen or more scans, tests, ultrasounds, five surgeons, four GI experts, etc. and they all missed what I kept telling them from day one...denied it, said it didn't exist, yet found and verified. I read all my own labs, all my own medical records, and don't just go and do one more CT scan, that will show nothing, when six have already been ran, and it's a waste of time and money...but the right surgeon, took his fingertips and put them in my tummy where I told everyone that I had a hernia, that "didn't exist" and he says, "oh, very rare, you have a spigelian hernia, gotta get that fixed, it can pinch your bowel..." no, really!? LOL ;o)