Those who have a medical background (and some whom don't) do "get it". We "get" the medical part of it.

If you as a "lawyer" view the medical part of a disease differently I guess that's the way different professions view things.

It still doesn't change body systems and how they work. No one but God can change that, and even he, after all this time, may have a hard time doing it.

Coming from the medical part of those who "get it" it's always important to make sure people don't relate everything they have to a "certain" syndrome like TOS (that can't cause someone's constipation & beleive it or not it has been condsidered by others here), docs look at patients that do as hypochondriacs.

Now, before anyone goes off on the constipation thing and come back and say yes it does, stop and think before you post. TOS does not cause constipation. Now, the meds that you take for it will, but not TOS itself. Patients who are able to separate the difference look smart in the docs eyes and have more of a chance having the docs treat them like they are the smarter patient who can teach docs something about TOS that they may not know. Knowledge is power, as long as the knowledge is correct.

Many do end up going through many types of tests before TOS is found, it happens more then not. But one shouldn't automatically open themselves up to many tests that just are not needed. Get to a TOS doc and allow them to order more testing if they feel it's needed. If we as patients could order our own testing we probably would have had a DX sooner then later, but we can't. Pt's also can't go in to a docs office demanding what tests they want, they can, but chances are the doc won't order them. There's nothing wrong with "gentle" suggestions but the doc does the ordering in the end.

The bottom line is that there's a fine line between what we as patients want to see done and what the docs are willing to do without being told what to do by the patient.