Actually, it says they were slides her pathologist had already looked at... I wonder how much money she's getting from his malpractice insurance.
Posted on 06/11/2009 9:05:50 AM PDT by JoeProBono
For eight years, Jessica Terry suffered from stomach pain so horrible, it brought her to her knees. The pain, along with diarrhea, vomiting and fever, made her so sick, she lost weight and often had to miss school. During a science class, Jessica Terry, 18, discovered a tell-tale granuloma in her own pathology slide. During a science class, Jessica Terry, 18, discovered a tell-tale granuloma in her own pathology slide. Her doctors, no matter how hard they tried, couldn't figure out the cause of Jessica's abdominal distress.
Then one day in January, Terry, 18, figured it out on her own. In her Advanced Placement high school science class, she was looking under the microscope at slides of her own intestinal tissue -- slides her pathologist had said were completely normal -- and spotted an area of inflamed tissue called a granuloma, a clear indication that she had Crohn's disease. "It's weird I had to solve my own medical problem," Terry told CNN affiliate KOMO in Seattle, Washington. "There were just no answers anywhere. ... I was always sick." Terry, who graduated from Eastside Catholic School in Sammamish, Washington, this month, is now being treated for Crohn's, says her science teacher, MaryMargaret Welch.
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Well, since Crohn’s disease mostly affects the lower intestine, I can think of only one way in.
Wow, that is great. That is one smart young lady there. I hope the best for her.
He/She probably never even touched her.
And if she's wrong she can sue herself for malpractice.
This is a great story and one that is all too familiar.
My teenage daughter was having severe abdominal distress last year and after visiting with 15+ doctors and having every imaginable test none of the doctors had a clue. Her primary care doctor even suggested this was all in her head!
My daughter could barely move due to the pain, was withdrawn from high school, and all the doctors could suggest was pain management. Their best idea was to dope her up to take away the pain but no ideas about the root cause.
One night she saw a story on the mystery diagnosis TV show that provided us with a diagnosis - she has endometriosis. She went to two gynecologists with this idea and both said there was no way she had that because she was too young and had too much pain.
We finally found a very capable doctor in Houston that confirmed the endometriosis as well as diagnosing insulin sensitivity.
Along the way we found almost all doctors have nothing but contempt for patients with a little bit of medical knowledge. Some actually got angry.
My daughter is functioning normally now with absolutely no help from 15 different doctors. If it were up to them she’d be drugged up right now and bedridden IMO.
The moral of the story is to do your own research and keep getting “second” opinions.
Doctors, Demos, Government: I trust SOME Doctors, Very FEW Demos, and almost NOBODY in Government.
Trust but VERIFY!
I was incredibly sick for years, couldn’t get my doctor to help me, all he wanted to do was prescribe me medicine for depression though I wasn’t depressed at all. I said “screw it” and went out and learned how to heal the human body and have never looked back. And he never spent more than 10 minutes with me.
I was thinking Chron’s from the second sentence of the story...maybe because a friend’s wife has it...but I agree with you about the doctors.
That’s why you know more about these things than I do !
Actually, it says they were slides her pathologist had already looked at... I wonder how much money she's getting from his malpractice insurance.
That's waht I wanted to know after readin it. Then again, I really don't want to know.
I’ve used the internet to diagnose lots of problems — a hernia, a chalazion, pityriasis rosea and other things in myself, and a genetic deletion disorder (22q or DiGeorge syndrome) in my wife, which had been completely overlooked by her cardiologist and other doctors. In fact her cardiologist, who is actually very good overall, gave us bad advice on having kids (3% risk of problems instead of 50%) because he didn’t realize there was a mutation.
Holder will charge her with practicing medicine without a license.
Her real offense, will be not waiting for gooberment medicine to diagnose her correctly.
“Self reliance does not amuse the US Attorney General”.
Ralph Waldo Emerson?
Some Crohn's cases might be easy, but finding granulomas isn't. Once the trouble area get sufficiently large so it can be seen during a colonoscopy, it's an easy decision. But those visible lesions don't always appear early.
Finding the odd granuloma in a blood test or tissue scraping is not easy. They just aren't that prevalent. It took the docs 8 years to find the granulomas that gave me the sarcoid diagnosis.
And if the granuloma was found in the blood stream, I wonder how they distinguished between Crohn's and Sarcoidosis?
Are you ready for a doctor-bashing thread?
"In her Advanced Placement high school science class, she was looking under the microscope at slides of her own intestinal tissue -- slides her pathologist had said were completely normal -- and spotted an area of inflamed tissue called a granuloma, a clear indication that she had Crohn's disease."
It was a bonehead doctor.
Then next time you are seriously injured or are having severe chest pain, why don't you call a faith healer or a massage therapist?
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