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by ruok_throwaway
2478 days ago
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I'm not. I've been sick for 10 years now. Spent meaningful percentage of my 20ies in bed without having energy for anything. I've been away from work for a month now. Every doctor that I speak to is in bucketing and hypothesis testing-mindset and none have been interested in the idiosyncrasies of my case. I have a pain in the right abdomen and back that is somewhat digestion related. I've been treated for H.Pylori before. I've done MRI, CT, ultrasound, colonoscopy and bloods and none are suggestive of anything specific. I've exhausted all of my mental strength powering through this condition for years. I feel like I'm spent and every day is suffering. |
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It's a difficult situation because these indicators are so nonspecific. (Fittingly, the pain includes the right hypochondrium.)
I have essentially no confidence in the capacity of medical professionals to act upon any other than the most common and obvious clinical signs. Maybe because of its association with high social status, the medical profession seems to preferentially attract the sort of rigid and uninquisitive mind ill-suited for this complex and nebulous problem domain. To add insult to literal injury, unless one has the resources to obtain highly individualized medical attention, symptoms will almost certainly be classified as psychosomatic after perfunctory screening fails to reveal some clear-cut cluster of abnormal measurements -- as if all internal pain was a product of the mind before the advent of medical testing.
Best of luck to you in finding relief. Reach out if you'd like to discuss this further.