For quite a while now I've been having problems eating. It started before Christmas, mid-November I think. At the time I figured it was stress related, after all it was Christmas, and it was fairly busy. And then there was a rather stressful situation at work as well, and I just figured all of that was contributing to it. Plus, over Christmas everything was fine, I could eat whatever I wanted, whenever I wanted. But the problem came back not too long afterwards.
The problem is basically that I'll start to eat and then feel incredibly sick. Either like I'm going to be sick, or my stomach will sieze up and be incredibly painful after I've finished eating. Which prevents me from eating much of anything at all. It's not very pleasant.
Between Christmas and now we discovered that a medical clinic not too far from here was accepting new patients, and since we haven't been exactly happy with the doctor we had, we decided to go for it and make the switch. Because of this, I haven't wanted to talk to the old doctor about this, because I didn't want to get into the middle of anything and then have to start all over again once I'd switched.
Monday was the first appointment with the new doctor, so I mentioned the problems I was having to her. She asked a bunch of questions and then said that she thought there may be something wrong with my gallbladder. So, then she had me lie down on the table and she poked and prodded at my stomach and there was incredible pain, which lingered for most of the day. So, she figures I may have gallstones, and wrote up an order for an ultrasound, which I will have Friday morning.
I'm not sure what will happen if it turns out that I actually do have gallstones or if I've got an infection or whatever. We didn't discuss that at all, she just said have the ultrasound then call and make an appointment to come in and find out the results, they usually take a week or two to get here. So, after the ultrasound I'll call and make another appointment, and then we'll see.
Posted by Michelle at March 18, 2003 06:02 PM