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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Infernal Triangle: AMA,FDA,Drug Companies: If YOU are healthy THEY go broke......there is NO percentage in having us healthy...profit is not a dirty word until people suffer needlessly.
Have not been to Doctors in 37 years..No colds, no flu, nothing except some seasonal allergies.
I do read their medical journals. They have known how to prevent or reverse diabetes (chromium & vanadium) since about 1959.
I had poor balance...supplemented diet with niacin (B vitamin ..medical profession did studies on this in the 1930’s) increased my fruit intake, threw away the cane I used within 2 weeks have not used one for years....Better shape now than I was 20 years ago.
I will call a Doctor for a broken bone OR IF I NEED A CORONER! lol
Had a problem with your doctor recently I see.
Please speak of your own experience and do not attempt to speak for all or about all.
Oh puleeeeeze. Just because most doctors you consulted were incompetent, which suggests possible incompetence on your part in finding a good doctor, does not mean most doctors are incompetent.
Sure hope she got an “A” in that class!
I’ve got Crohn’s. It damned near killed me four years ago. Terrible disease that cannot be cured.
A close relative was diagnosed with Crohn’s and suffered for five years then had a “spontaneous remission” and has had no symptoms in 10 years.Stuff happens. Hang in there FRiend.
Exactly that. When I read the brief description of her symptoms, my first thought was that it was Crohn's disease.
State your opinion any way you want, just expect you will be called upon it by people with a different opinion.
“Schoolmarm attitude????” Me? That’s a laugh. But thanks for the compliment.
I really don’t wanna swap strep... ;-)
I’m sorry you feel that way. Perhaps you will be treated better under Obamacare.
Well too bad she didn’t Obama’s health care plan...she wouldn’t have had to hear the bad news for at least another 4 years...
My personal experience has been that lots of docs miss lots of easy calls.
Lots.
I wish I didn't have to pile on, but I'm the one who found that my son was allergic to milk, not the pediatrician I saw repeatedly with a screaming baby. I also diagnosed my own pelvic pain after being told I had to live with it.
Good doctors are worth their weight in gold. But sometimes they are way too damn dismissive.
Another one? Let’s bash trial lawyers instead. ;)
I basically diagnosed my own lupus. Doctors had just been treating the symptoms for years, but never connecting the dots.
We received a solicitation letter from the Lupus Foundation which had a list of 10 symptoms which might indicate one had Lupus, I had 8 of the 10. I took the list to my internist and she sent me to a rheumatologist. BINGO. After 12 years of suffering I finally had some answers!
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