HEALTH PROBS, YOU GOT ANY IDEAS ?

[Saltire]

HEALTH PROBLEMS, HAVE YOU GOT ANY IDEAS PLEASE ?

Please try not to joke, this is no joke and ffs don't terrify me either as I am bad enough just now with my nerves etc.

What does a consultant doctor mean when he says he is waiting on a test result to check if my stomach is absorbing food properly or not ?

I asked him "and if its not then what ?" and he just said we shall cross that bridge when we come to it, that was all and then out the door he went leaving me extremely worried now.

I have been in the hospital about 17 days now and its all just been the usual tests, blood tests everyday, blood pressure checks two or three times a day, a few of them have even had the old finger up my backside OUCH ! which they said seemed fine apart from the obvious piles I have always suffered from, they also done an ultrasound scan on my stomach/liver etc too.

Basically I let my health go right downhill for years n years now until I ended up in this state like a skeleton, I am eating but its either the runs I get or dihorreha and both of them are so sore and cause piles too as you will know probably.

I was really surprised the other week they weighed me, I am 6ft 2" tall and only weighed 11 stone, I thought I would have weighed a lot less by the looks of me to be honest and then yesterday they weighed me again and I have already put on one stone which makes me 12 stone now.

I cant get out of bed really as I am just so so weak and any muscles I had have gone, I even have to wear those pad things incase I mess myself as i cant get to toilet fast enough because I have zero strength as I said.

I will admit I am terrified, scared, nervous, the lot......

[Meat-Head]

Not knowing much about faults with humans
log your food/drink, how you feelt the next day.

could be some kind of internal fault making certain foods
not comptable.

stagger around t' supermarket and buy stuff you dont normally buy
cheap/dear see if fault clears

[Elric]

i always thought runs and diaohrea are both the same is it not
anyway not to put the sh1tters on you (no pun intended ) you might have
Malabsorption Syndrome

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malabsorption

[ifred]

Simply put, the doc hasn't got a clue! A good simple delli belly trick of the world travellers is boiled rice with yogurt. Sound mad but it works mainly to calm the inflamed intestines. You might find a really good naturopath is the best help

[firestorm]

Sound a real nightmare i hope you find the problem soon
best of luck

[DOUGALMCD]

Hope your getting better and I suppose you are in the best place until you put weight on and get checked over properly. Good luck.

[rds60h]

Saltire, although it might not seem it but being in hospital is the best place to be until they can find out what's going on, plus as you say you have managed to put on a stone (many people lose weight because they don't like hospital food).
So just keep doing whatever they want you to do and hopefully everything will be alright, and as others have said Good Luck and Get Well Soon.

[GastonJ]

Doctors can only do estimates on what may be wrong with you based on tests and observations, since Haynes have yet to produce the definitive workshop manual and issue guide. I would hasten to add that doctors usually know what they're looking for, but would rather not give early diagnosis in case they're wrong and you snuff it, so your family sue them, or worse still they tell you you're going to snuff it (so you sell your house etc and party like there's no tomorrow) and you don't. They'd sooner only give you the most accurate diagnosis.

Based on all the information you've given and the weight gain I'd hazard a guess that you're pregnant

But anyway, hope you get sorted soon