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Wow, you have a lot to add to this discussion and I can sure relate to where you are at!
This War on Sick People must end! The War on Doctors treating patients must end as well!
I'm really sad to read your post as I know exactly what you are going through and as for the NSAIDs, yep, they bore a hole right through my large intestine, I developed peritonitis and damn near died. I woke up in the hospital cursing and demanding a priest come to me and give me my last rites. I was really hoping I'd die being I was in the ICU for days on end.
It was a hell and why I lived through it I'll never know. That said, I am still here and as of yesterday I managed to find TWO neurologists that want me, TWO! I told them I had maybe 10 years left to live and that it is my wish not to die in PAIN.
That sort of shut them up I'd say. Sad fucking world the day we let sick people suffer.
Today I awaken to fierce pain in both legs. Step Two: Pop a Tylenol #4 and hope to God that I can find a caring doctor!
Hang-in there and again, thanks for sharing your horrid struggle w/us here on the DU!!
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