A True Story of Medical Mystery

What was causing strange symptoms of Elizabeth DeVita Raeburn? Doctors were blocked - it has supported and found an answer. One morning when I was in my twenties, I woke the familiar sound of a radiator suddenly and the unfamiliar sensation of spinning. A half beat after I opened my eyes, I felt a strong swell of nausea. In my unique mind of 25 years, it was the stuff of nightmares. I drag me to a pharmacy and buys a pregnancy test. Negative. I was resigned to waiting.

It has proved to be a long wait.

Weeks later, I developed abdominal pain. Then, a urinary tract infection which had without regard for antibiotics. My doctor ran tests, looking for red flags - elevated WBC count, something, whack thyroid hormone. But they were all normal. Puzzled, he referred me to specialists: a urologist, a gynecologist, a gastroenterologist. I had an endoscopy, a barium x-ray, a colonoscopy. And theories flew: ulcers, endometriosis, lupus. They kept me late at night, wondering if the more recent theory would be the diagnostic version of the right of Mr. - but without the joy that implies. I simply wanted an explanation.

My doctor prescribed even without a diagnosis. I took a drug to speed up gastric emptying, antacids limitation, and even a drug which put in false menopause. Nothing has worked. And the side effects were horrible. I have had hot flashes. My stomach was gross antibiotics.

My father, a medical oncologist with a policy of treatment does not his family, watched anxiously from the sidelines. "Stop seeing specialists," he advised. "They think only about their 10 inches from the body." So I stopped seeing doctors. I always had my symptoms, but I made sure that I have always been about bathroom. In this way, I managed to semi-normalcy.

Then one day, five years after this first wave of nausea, sitting in a pizzeria drinking water and eating soup, pizza smell hit me fully in force. I wondered what it would be like to eat without feeling sick. A wave of anger and determination struck me. It is time to resume the search for a diagnosis.

I thought hard about what I wanted in my doctor following the way in which some people envision their ideal partner. I wanted to find an internist, someone who looks at the overview. I found one who had studied acupuncture in China; He spent an hour to ask me questions. One was whether if I traveled until I get sick, something other doctors had asked me, and to which I always answered "no". It is a matter of flow chart-like to address the issue of the parasites. If you have not travelled, they check negative and relocation to another explanation. "You know", he said, "I think that we should test parasites, in any event". With the way people travel these days, he said, they can implement parasites for us.

A week, a blood test and a stool sample later, I had a response: Entamoeba histolytica, a common parasite in countries not developed with contaminated water. It can be transmitted by an infected person who jumped to wash hands after going to the toilet, then processed foods. Two weeks of the right antibiotics and symptoms have disappeared.
Now, as someone who has made a wrong choice in spouses on the first go round, I am extremely careful on whose hands I put me in. I can not correct a medical system depend on testing. But I can choose physicians who listen, those who think actually - and not just test - travelled to an explanation.

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