The week before last I went to see my pain doctor. It was not a good visit. In fact I came home so upset I started crying and my poor puppy who’d never seen me upset like that didn’t know what the heck was going on.

Why was I so upset? A medical student. My pain doctor occasionally has medical students in her office. She lets them talk to her patients while she sees another patient then she comes in and talks to her patient with the medical student present.

I was upset because I hate going over my whole medical history again and again. I’ve been in pain for so long that I can’t even remember or even describe all my symptoms anymore. Of course the med student wanted to start at the beginning and she gave what she though was helpful suggestions like making a fever chart to track my fevers (I’ve done that about 10 times) and going on an elimination diet to figure out all the foods that bother me. Yeah been there done that.

I guess I was more upset than I should have been …. but I really wasn’t feeling well that day and I just wanted to talk to my doctor, get my prescriptions and perhaps discuss a new drug treatment as she’s always telling me about new medications that will be coming out soon that might help me with the pain from my Crohns.