1 step forward, 2 back

I feel like I'm back to square one, but at least my doctor is doing something now....and no, i don't mean the surgeon who fixed the para-esophageal hernia. I went and saw my family practice doctor this past Friday.

I had the upper g.i. on Monday, the 13th, per the surgeon and it came back normal (surprise, surprise--yes, I'm being sarcastic).  It amazes me that since this began, over 2+ years, every test has come back normal.  The doctors haven't seen a thing wrong, but then the surgeon gets in there and finds a big problem.  Am I surprised that this test came back normal too....not at all.  When the surgeon tried to push me off onto a pain clinic last week (rather than try to figure out what is actually wrong), I decided it was time to try a new tactic.  So I called my family doctor and although she couldn't explain why every test keeps coming back normal, she is doing something.  She refilled all of my prescriptions, scheduled me for an chest x-ray, an aortic duplex, and a gastric emptying time scan.  These will be over the next couple of weeks.  Although the thought is scary, she said it is possible I have something completely different going on that no one is seeing, since they haven't looked.  Its a possibility I could have mesenteric ischemia, or even gastroparesis. Neither is a good thing, but all of my symptoms fit, and with family history to consider, plus all of the past abdominal surgeries, she wants to rule these out.

I'll keep you posted in this never ending saga.
I just want my life back.