[cjbgkagh]

Should have gone to a psychoneuroimmunologist… shame it’s such an overlooked and rare specialty; anti-histamines are often quite powerful anticholinergics, especially when combined, and will substantially perturbe autonomic function. Autonomic dysfunction is often a cause for digestive issues, plus a raft of other things. People with these problems typically also have inflammation issues so the doctor may have come to the right conclusion for the wrong reason. Medicine is such a haphazard science that seems to spend the majority of its time gaslighting patients, at least they’re no longer blood letting or literally blowing smoke up peoples butts so thank goodness for small improvements.

Doctors, and by extension much of medicine, are terrible at statistics and the failure to properly use statistics means they constantly overlook otherwise obvious causes. Quite often you’re better off with Dr. Google which implicitly by the nature of the algorithm does use some statistics.

[analog31]

Ironically, finding just the right type of specialist is its own kind of luck.

[cjbgkagh]

Double ironically; people told 'it's in your head' if they go to a psychiatrist that'll probably be the closest they'll get to a psychoneuroimmunology (PNI) specialist. Though I figure the chance of finding a good doctor to be akin to finding a winning lottery ticket on the ground.