nothnig wrong.

i went to see the dermatiologist today abuot my imnue system. he siad thta there was nothnig wrong wiht it. he siad thta none of my prolbems are due to an auto imnue diease. he siad thta i did test postive and thta was all he siad. he thne went on to other iuses such as a rash i hvae now had on my face for a monht. he jsut siad it was acne. he didnet even look at it. he gvae me the same craem i am alraedy useing from gp. whcih isnet wroking.

i am jsut fed up agian espeacialy as i hvae strarted to bled agian. it stoped for a while and yestruday it started. my stomach has ben bad agian. such a pian wehn i go out and ned the toilet or get the feeling and thne donet go. i am hon the deit for my colonsocopy whcih i am hvaeing on thrusday. gotta strart takeing the laxertives tomomrow.

And to think that GB was recently ranked above the US in terms of medical care and overall health. Of course, plenty of people here have had doctors pull that same sort of thing with them; guess you can get a bad doctor anywhere. :-(

I'd let my GP know ASAP that the dermie didn't examine me, said my test results were indeed positive, but that that didn't indicate any problem, and that he gave me a script for medicine I already have that's not working, and blamed the rash on acne (like even a GP couldn't have noticed the difference--I'm sure if you had "just acne" the GP would have said so. The GP needs to either get you another doctor or come down on that one like a ton of bricks.

Metformin is for diabetes; my husband takes it. As far as I'm aware, it's never given him any problems, but then he's practically normal anyways. Since it's going to be impossible for you to control your blood sugar through diet--as there are so many things you can't eat (or have to eat) for your gut, that's probably the way to go. Although I hear that 30 minutes of exercise a day is supposed to do wonders on the blood sugar. If you could afford to get yourself a treadmill and worked on getting in 30 minutes of walking on it a day, that might be enough to help your blood sugar. Cinnamon has also been shown to lower blood sugar; my husband noticed a drop of about 10 points when he started putting it in his coffee every morning. Obviously you can't do coffee, but maybe you can make cinnamon toast? I think you're supposed to do 1/4 teaspoon a day to get benefits. Red pepper and other hot spices are also good for diabetes as well, but obviously you can't do those either.

hi i hafd my scope yesturday. thye didnet find anythnig. thye still donet know why i bleed. i was jsut told thta it is ibs and thta i am stressed. i am raelly fed up as the resaon for seeing new gi was to get some help wiht some new meds but now i hvae found out thta becuase my scope was noraml i am not giong to see gi agian thye apperntly write to yuo wiht the rsults whchi i was told. it just seems like if it is not life therthing thne thye donet want to know. so now i am stil in the same position as before. i canet hack any of thsi. i am not sure waht i am giong to do now. where i go form here. i guess i am fed up wiht giong thuogh all these tests and thne nothnig ever gets donet. i found the scope ok a little bit pian ful as thye woulndt give me mcuh sedation as i had a bad reactoin to anestic. i slept for abuot three days after it. so i saw it all and felt it all. i was told thta i would be sedated so i wouldent know anythnig abuot it.

i feel like i hvae gone ruond in a big circle and now hvae ended up back wehre i strated wiht all the same prolbems. i am worreid abuot the amount of piankillers i take to control the pian. thye canet be good for me. i donet bother taking the buscopan any more as it doesnet do anythnig.

how do yuo guys cope wiht ibs? i feel like i canet and donet get any surport from gp or consultant. i feel let down by nhs.