[Beechlover]

Welcome back KBUF!

My wife and I went through a similiar year long ordeal where she has finally found relief from her constant severe abdominal pain and we just no kidding finally resolved last friday! Began with a misdiagnosis of Eosinophilic Gastroenteritis (EGE). After 4 months of ineffective treatment, we fired our gastroenterologist, moved to florida, and she was re-evaluated at the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville. They did in 5 days what her previous doctor was unable to do during the 4 months he was 'caring' for her. Not only did they completely disprove his original diagnosis, they discovered that he may have damaged her gastric nerve while removing a large polup in her descending colon. That day she was sent to one of their pain managers and put on a 2 pill a day prescription that has almost completely relieved her pain. For the first time in a year she is able to eat a real meal with no pain. We actually went out to lunch for the first time in 4 months this past weekend. It got so bad that she would go the entire day without eating (for fear of making the pain worse at work, she's a surgical RN), only to come home and have a small bowl of soup and go to bed crying due to the pain.

She is beginnning to regain the 17 pounds she lost over the last 3 months, and we are slowly and cautiously reintroducing real food into our diet. So far so good. We are finally able to think about our life together and all the possibilities (we are newly married)

Dude what you've gone through.., I can only say god bless you man. You've made it this far, with strength like that, you're going to make it all the way! Best wishes, and stay in touch.