I think doctors know but don’t have the time to sit down and think. You typically have ten to fifteen minutes of their time, and only God knows how many patients they see every day. I think health care in this country has come to a bad place. Hard to get appointments, hard to schedule procedures and weeks go by waiting for a diagnosis. I am in that situation now. I finally got to see a GI who surmised by my symptoms that I have SIBO, put me on another round of antibiotics, and wants to do a CT scan of my GI. Every time I talk to a professional I get more questions than answers. I live with daily anxiety thinking I have an autoimmune disease or cancer and the clock keeps ticking. My PCP told me that the best diagnostic tool was the person’s response to treatment which will then guide the types of tests that are ordered as symptoms resolve or not. Yesterday I saw blood in my stool and freaked out. Yet my PCP said he was less concerned about that than if I had anemia. Ultimately we have to trust on someone who can guide us through this scary process.