Thread: First Gastro Appt.

You are right to be concerned about the time that you have to take out of your day to have testing done. Make sure that the doctor has asked all the right questions in order to make a diagnosis and do the test with the highest probability of giving the right answers. Pain in the abdomen is not like pain that you experience on your skin or in a joint like the wrist. Pain on the skin or in a joint often localizes exactly to the cause of the...

The more I think about my appt today the more in bothers me.? It was a first appt and i was in an out of there in 20 minutes. I started having discomfort/pain in my right side, just below my ribs a about three weeks ago.? I saw my primary care Dr.?last?Thursday?and he poke and prodded where my gallbladder is an it hurt.? He was pretty sure it was gallstones and ordered an upper right quadrant abdominal ultrasound.? I had that last Friday,...