Elissa

Thank you all SO much---I can't tell you how much I appreciate your responses. My career, although it is very active and very visible (I write for the Trib Syndicate, the NY Times, etc), is the least of my worries right now---I just want to feel good again. Thank you all again---stay tuned..... Elissa

Hi everyone-- Thanks so much for this great forum. Maybe some of you can shed some light: I'm currently 44 years old. 18 months ago, I awoke one morning with the worst abdominal pain I've ever had. It was like someone was tugging at my insides, and so, being perimenopausal, I went to my internist and my gyn. The former (whom I like very much) was convinced...