AHS is not within my area of expertise. I do believe you should be evaluated by someone who is well versed in drug induced liver disease as a starting point. Dr. Bonkovsky would be a good person to start withOkay. Let me see if I understand correctly. You don't really know much about Anticonvulsant Hypersensitivity Syndrome, or .... DRESS.
I guess that doesn't bother me, per se. It might not BE a Gastroenterology/Hepatology thing.
But it doesn't sound as though you gave it a moment's thought, huh ?
Maybe another department, at Mayo, would know a ton about this stuff ?
Maybe a referral in this area code or time zone is still better than a referral to a liver guy in North Carolina -- particularly if this was really immunological or infectious, rather than being a straight liver thing ?
Nope. I'm staying in Rochester, and will keep camping out in the lobby until Internal Medicine sees me. I think I need to be seen by an Immunologist AND an Infectious Diseases doctor. I think that's easier here than it would be in North Carolina.
So that's the update. I got a walk in, but it was cold, ominous and windy. Passed out when I got back.
Tomorrow's another day ... here ... in the meteorologically imperfect Northern reaches of ... The Gulag :-)
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