Her doctor praised the fact she couldn't eat because she was in so much stomach pain.
, exhausting all the usual remedies with no success, and navigating the necessary insurance process and wait time, then 27-year-old Amanda Lee was relieved to finally get an appointment to see a gastroenterologist near her home in Los Angeles in February.
"He said, 'Maybe it's not such a bad thing' that I couldn't eat because of my pain," Lee told TODAY Health."He was praising the fact that I was not eating." "I said, 'No, I'm still caught up on the fact that you told me it's OK to starve,' and he said, 'Well, you don't look malnourished,'" she recounted to TODAY.
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