Hi ya'll, looking to find out if I'm going crazy or if I'm actually perfectly sane, and advice for how I can get the help I need either way.
I've been having stomach pain for a month. After the first 2 weeks of it, I went to a clinic on my college campus and was told it was indigestion. Two weeks later it was still ongoing, and I recalled I had some unrelated blood work to handle, so I decided to hit two birds with one stone and talk to someone else about the stomach pain too.
I told the guy all of my symptoms; Upper left pain around the stomach or spleen, a pulling sensation, feeling full after eating only a little, fatigue, nausea, and a couple more headaches than usual. He asked if I ever had an acidic taste in my mouth, and I mentioned it happened, just once, after I almost threw up. He diagnosed it as acid reflux immediately. I went on to get my blood taken after he said that, if it were anything else, I might get back weird blood work results, but that he doubted it.
My blood work came back with eosinophilia (1.29k/uL, 18%). My PCP (not the acid reflux guy) messaged me later saying it's probably just allergies. I don't know if she's even aware of the stomach pain. I'm not even really having any allergies as far as I can tell. I would've thought that she'd want to do some testing to figure out why my bones are cranking out a fleet of white blood cells but, when I messaged her that I was wondering if all of my symptoms could be related, she read the message and hasn't responded in 3 workdays (her hospital has a policy where they normally respond within 48 hours).
With all of this going on I decided to call my case manager to help me find a specialist, and that's how I found out that even despite the insurance not needing a referral, all the nearby specialists require one. So I'm stuck in limbo. At this point I tried everything; calling my doctors office, calling student advocacy, calling my insurance, calling my case manager again, calling everyone.
All of it has ended either in a promise of a call back that never comes, or being passed off and told to call a new phone number. And while I'm doing all of this, I'm in pain, I'm dehydrated because it hurts to drink much, and I just want to sleep all day, which I've done multiple days recently because I'm exhausted. I feel like I'm starting to breakdown, not just from this, but with this as a final straw. I had to drop my summer class due to how bad I feel and my research is going to the wayside.
I broke down and told the student advocacy guy how exhausted I am, how I don't know if I can handle making more phone calls with no results, and it ended in him saying he'd email me a phone number for an advocate at the hospital my doctor works at. I never even got that email from him. I'm so tired of the people who's job it is to help passing the buck until I hit someone who doesn't even bother to do that much.
Am I being unrealistic and expecting too much or is this society as unempathetic as it feels?
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