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does anyone have any help for going about getting diagnosed and help with IBS?? it impacts my life so much and ive been struggling with it for a long time now, but im unsure of how to go about visiting a doctor for it, especially bc it's kinda uncomfortable to talk about :/
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Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS)
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You ask your primary care doctor for a referral to a GI, preferably one with lots of experience with IBS/ a motility specialists
Ask your primary care for a referral to a gi doctor. That's what I had to do
what we did was find a GI doctor/specialist and we would get some tests done and we would do stool samples and i even had to do an ultrasound and with that all they were able to come up with my diagnosis!
If you have insurance or are able to, go to a walk in urgent care, explain symptoms, get a referral to a gastroenterologist.. they can not only DX you but check to see if there’s a reason why. For me, I was mildly allergic to most foods and had no idea!!
It kinda got to the point where I stopped caring that it was gross. But I still tried to be modest about it. Talk to your GP and ask to see a GI.
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