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>>6701753
Because, unbeknownst to me, the medicine they gave me when I first came in with an intense stomachache inhibits breath tests that detect the H.Pylori bacteria for months.
Breath tests take <1hr to perform btw.

So the only way I could get diagnosed was through a biopsy. The doctor refused to do a gastroscopy though, instead I had to go through a Ultrasound and a CT scan before he assigned me for one. Then from the biopsy he was able to detect the bacteria
This route allowed them to milk more money out of me, because a breath test would've cost me a ~$10 (after insurance)

It was a similar thing months later. The antibiotics and PPIs didn't help and I was getting a bloodied stool.
I talked to a different doctor who said that I had a DIFFERENT thing in my intestines. She then prescribed another round of expensive antibiotics that didn't work and tried to pull another round of "You need to do these tests first!"
I told her to fuck off and went to a specialist, showed him pics of my shit, and he got me a colonscopy 2 days later.

He didn't detect anything there, and neither did any of his tests.
So we were stumped, he just told me the stool thing would go away eventually.

I talked to the other doc again about my results. She was more concerned about how I left their network to do my Colonscopy than my actual health.

She probably sensed I wasn't coming back so she prescribed me some PPIs (these reduced my aches but turned me into a zombie). 12 sodding boxes of them
I couldn't get through that many in my fucking lifetime. She was trying to get as much out me and my insurance before I left as she could

>>6701764
Do you know how much money and time I wasted on these freaks.
I couldn't even live my life and all they were concerned about was a few pennies I spent on another clinic
I fucking hate these psychopaths I hate them all.