This post is basically a vent. I was in terrible pain on Sunday, so I went to the ER. They gave me a CT scan and a sonogram of my gallbladder. (My pain was in my abdominal area.) The doc told me everything came back fine and to just go back to my primary care doc.

Earlier in the week I had gone to my primary care doc, and she was thinking the pain was coming from some damage to stomach surgery I had back in August. So, she had made me an appointment with the surgeon who did the surgery.

At any rate, on Monday I get a phone call from the nurse at the surgeon's office, noting that I was having problems and had been to the ER. "Yeah," I said, "but the results came back negative."

"I am looking at the report from the ER," the nurse said. "It shows you have a distended gall bladder. That's not normal. We think your pain is coming from that!"

"What?!" I replied. "Why didn't the ER doctor tell me?"

I see the surgeon tomorrow, but meanwhile I am livid. I think the ER doc should at least have told me my gall bladder was swollen. He said there were no gallstones. But I think I need further testing on it, from what I have read.

Had I not talked to the surgeon's office, I would have just gone back to my primary care doc.

I hope the surgeon can shed some light on my situation tomorrow!

Thanks for reading. Has anyone else had this kind of experience with ER docs?