是的,我知道我是病人,我知道医生是来帮我的,但是没有人知道我的身体比我知道我的身体。我被诊断出患有溃疡性结肠炎后,我被告知采取特定的医学和我将和我的症状有所消退。但是也许几个月之后,我仍感到疼痛或在我的胃痉挛。我回到医生说,嘿,你知道,我仍然感觉的东西是怎么回事。说实话,多年来,同样的事情发生了,我会规定一个特定的药丸,回到我的医生,因为我的耀斑,仍然非常活跃,我知道现在只是把创可贴在我的耀斑。我绝对是更多的医学和轻度溃疡性结肠炎。随着时间的推移,我的症状变得从轻微到中等到严重。但是,我仍基本上相同的药物几乎十年了。即使告诉我的医生,我开始看到血在我的凳子上。你知道,我看到粘液。 The cramps won’t go away. I’m experiencing bloating. I switched jobs. And basically when I did this, I had to find a new health care provider. I knew this time around that I had to do my due diligence to find the best GI doctor that I could to start out with. And when I finally found my GI doctor, he set me up with a colonoscopy. I just remember waking up and him telling me to go straight to the emergency room because my colon was about to rupture. As a patient, I just could not understand, like, What do you mean my colon is about to rupture? I’ve been receiving treatment for the past ten years. Going faithfully to a doctor. I now know that they were just kind of putting a Band-Aid on things, and it kind of got to a point where I felt like, you know what, this is my body and I need to take control of my body. Yes, I know. I’m the patient and I know the doctors are here to help me, but no one knows my body better than I know my body. So that is the mindset that I went into when I went to find a new GI doctor. I wanted to find someone that no question was a stupid question. I definitely did not settle when it came to finding my new GI doctor. And when I did, he was very welcoming, answered all my questions, did multiple tests. If I even did my own research, I would kind of bring it back to him and if he thought it was a good idea, we kind of went with it. So it was more of a partnership versus someone seeing me for 10 minutes and sending me on my way. Him remembering me - I felt good, you know, that he was really in tune and wanted the best for me as I wanted for myself.
