Waiting...

I wait 2 months until I see Dr. Frech again. By now I have turned 26 and am feeling so incredibly hopeless. I don’t know what direction to take and if I should even continue on this path of test after test. I have been seeing Dr. Frech for 6 months now and I am no closer to feeling any better. They have found bits and pieces of what’s wrong but haven’t been able to put anything together. I trust Dr. Frech with my life but I don’t know if he is going to be able to fix me.

At this next appointment, Dr. Frech seems lost but also still has a glimmer of hope. He decides to order some more lab work to check all the liver levels and an MRI of my liver to see if there is something there that will explain why there is so much pain in my upper right side. He also wants to see if there may be stones left in the bile duct from when I had my gallbladder out. This is called Sphincter of Oddi dysfunction. He also uses the words Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS). For anyone who has ever had any sort of digestive issue, these are dreaded words. In my mind, I always associated IBS with “there is something wrong with you; we just aren’t sure what it is”. I have flashbacks of my old gastro Dr. telling my parents I am basically crazy. Dr. Frech tries his best to reassure me and to just do the tests and we will go from there.

I have the tests done. Lab work comes back normal. MRI comes back normal. Great.