Posted on 01/21/2010 8:16:08 PM PST by Onerom99
[[In Canada, Lesnar said he woke up one night in “shock” and in a cold sweat.
“I mean it was big time,” he said.]]
Sniff sniff- Try 40 years of Crohn’s disease and being misdiagnosed for 20 years and mistreated to hte point you lose your intestines and half your stomach
[[A young relative suffers from this, doesn’t help that he has no health insurance. ]]
He can still be treated- it’s tough, and a lot of paper work, but hospitals are required by law to treat people without insurance- you just gotta jump through all their hoops
[[A CT scan to diagnose diverticulitis? Since when?]]
Exactly what I was thinking- Docs play up the powers of CT scans, calling it hte ‘gold standard’ but lemme tell ya- they are crap, and cause massive radiation levels they’re finding out- I’ve had them done- some for kidney stones- they foudn nothing- and I promptly passed several right after the ‘gold standard’ test was done- as well, I’ve never had ANYTHING significant show up on them for my Crohn’s- but when the scopes upper GI and other end were done, they found significant damage which needed emergency surgery
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