(Thanks Layla for sharing this story with us through our page).
Source: Reddit
When I was 14 I started to have abdominal pain after every meal I ate. It got worse and worse and worse. I am 23 now and not a day without pain in my abdomen passes by. I feel sick every morning. I don’t go out to eat with friends anymore because I have to go home as soon as possible after I ate because of the pain. When I eat, when I don’t eat, when I eat to much, when I eat to little, I am almost always in pain. Some days are worse some days are not so bad but the pain is almost always there.
I went to so many doctors and told them how i feel. Every one told my “oh it’s normal for girls to experience abdominal pain sometimes” “mh, I guess it’s psychosomatic because you don’t like going to school” “that’s just how it is when you are a grown up woman and get your period”. No one did a single test on me, made an ultrasound or even touched me…
Today i had an appointment at a specialist for internal medicine. I explained my symptoms to him and what other doctors told me before. He looked at me in shock and said “Miss, I am sorry others didn’t treat your pain properly. I have a few things in mind that could be you condition, we will do a few test to see what it is exactly and we will treat that, and you will be able to live a life without abdominal pain!”.
I was so happy someone finally listened that I couldn’t help but cry…
