I felt silly. As I sat in the waiting room, I looked at all the miserable people with fevers and sore throats and broken arms. Those are real conditions, I thought to myself. I even pathetically checked a few times to make sure my chest still hurt when I breathed. It still did. When my nurse practitioner found nothing on my X-rays, she sent me to Crouse Hospital as a precaution.
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“Blood Clots Almost Killed Me”
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“I Suffer From… IBS”
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For the next few weeks I avoided problematic foods, which was almost everything, and took the anti-spasmodic pill when I experienced unexpected pain. I tried to keep a positive outlook, but I was simply ignoring the pain by putting chemicals in my body. Eventually, my frustration got the best of me, and my mother and I marched back into the doctor’s office demanding more constructive guidance. I talked to a new doctor in the same office and told her my story. She took the notes, looked up, and asked me, “What do you know about IBS?”
