Some time ago, I saw a woman who traveled across state lines to see me to receive yet another GI opinion. She had been having daily gastrointestinal symptoms for a decade despite an exhaustive and repeated series of tests arranged by multiple different gastroenterologists. Her symptoms remained unexplained and I suspected that they were unexplainable. I have seen many patients like this who suffer from chronic abdominal pain, nausea, bloating, bowel issues and other digestive complaints who have been evaluated by prior competent gastrointestinal specialists. It is terribly frustrating when there is no explanatory diagnosis to explain the misery. Sometimes these patients ask, ‘Am I crazy’? Of course, they are quite sane. Many common digestive symptoms simply don’t light up on our diagnostic tests. Bloating and nausea, for example, are unlikely to be explained by a scope exam or a CAT scan or other studies. So, what should these suffering individuals do? So, what did I t
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