Stomach Pain: It Continues – Part II

Part I can be found by clicking here: Stomach Pain: It Starts – Part I. ***** We sat quietly waiting in the waiting room. Again, we found ourselves in an odd position of being on the patient end of things. Allison, my wife, is a registered nurse. At the time she was working as an RN on a cardiac unit and I was at the end of my second year of Internal Medicine residency. Also, before this GI appointment, Allison had made a 2nd visit to the LLUMC ED. On that second visit they had decided to admit her to the Family Medicine service since her primary doctor was from the Family Medicine service. They did what they could but in the end agreed that she would need to be followed by with GI and proceed with the EGD. They did offer her more medications to try and help control the pain. After finally seeing the gastroenterologist and sharing the events of the last two years, he sat quietly typing on his computer. He explained that he doubted it was an ulcer and that her description sounded more like the pain was biliary1 in origin. Although he thought an ulcer was less likely to be the cause of the pain, he recommended proceeding with an esophagogastroduodenoscopy (EGD) to rule out peptic ulcer disease. He also ordered a HIDA scan for her to evaluate gallbladder function. During her visits to the Emergency Department they had done ultrasounds. One of the findings noted on the ultrasound was that there were no visible gallstones in the gallbladder. There was also no signs that a st...
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