Is it IBS...IBD...oh i don't know

[lozzyroo]

i've been to the doctor today first off i must say that my normal doctor is Dr.Rance but as she is away untill monday i had to see my other doctor called Dr.Brown. Ok so some...yes some of my tests results are back in..my iron was low so i am now on Ferrous Gluconate 300mg tablets. also my blood count was not correct i can not give you figure as i'm not all that sure what they are as you can tell i don't know much about medicine or medical names for things. anyways there was also another result which showed up as abornal and whatever that is has made Dr.Brown see my original Doctor who started this 'case' to send me to a specialist and have tests done like Colonoscopy to check things like chrons disease and other inflammorty. He said there is deffinetly something inside of me that's happening...whatever that means he spoke to me in jibberish talk which i didn't understand but as usual i never ask for some reason.. so i'm seeing my Doctor on tuesday,to start  seeing a specialist also i am no lnoger takeing colofac as it made me worse and it gave me sevear pain in my abdomen and whenever i ate i felt like i was going to faint...i'm not a Dr as you can all tell by now lol but by my own research that i have looked up on the internet about chron's disease i believe it maybe that as i read the symptons of chrons which is weight loss,abdomen pain,slimey soil,loss of apertite,diahhroea and a crack in the skin near the entrance of my anus. If anyone read's this do you also think i have chrons or am i being silly i'm sorry for my lack of knowledge of medical words and i know haven't given much information

[FurballsMom]

I don't know if I can really answer your question, but I can offer a little bit of advice.  If you end up having difficulty with nausea from the prescription iron that you're taking, which I experienced with both kinds of prescription iron, no matter if I took them with food or not, there are some chelated iron formulas at vitamin and supplement stores, as well as other types of iron that don't upset the stomach.  I have been using those ones successfully without any stomach upset, even when I'm not able to eat anything.  The chelated iron was available in 50 mg doses, which at one time I was told to take as much as 100 mg, because I was quite anemic before myself, but was unable to take the prescription iron tablets.  I'm telling you about this, because of the lack of appetite you mentioned.  There is a company I order some of my supplements from that has a gentle or easy iron at the RDA dosage here in the continental USA, but I think you're better off finding a discount place that is in the UK, so you don't have to pay high costs of shipping.  I'm sure there must be something like that in the UK that would make buying your supplements less expensive.

[lozzyroo]

Thanks i will actualy give that a thought as i'm not seeming to eat much at all and when i do get hungry i feel full so quickly.thank you once again xxx

[lozzyroo]

i have been back to the doctors i had to hand in a stool sample to see if i am ill because of all the antibiotics i have had in the past. so shall update this post when i get the results to that

[FurballsMom]

Yikes, antibiotics!  With or without the test results, I would certainly start taking a good probiotic.  Here in the states, there is a brand that my naturopath recommended, called FloraStor.  I found a much less expensive brand called Jarrow Formulas that has the same kind of probiotic, which is Saccharomyces Boulardii + MOS.  You must look in the refrigerated section of your health store to find a good probiotic, because they are a live product.  Yogurt is not really the best option, if you're lactose intolerant.  Many of us with IBS are gluten and lactose intolerant.  Some of us have Celiac in addition to the IBS, but not all gluten and lactose intolerance is Celiac.  My naturopath chooses FloraStor, because she said that many probiotics are actually pathogenic.  That's the last thing any of us needs, when we're already dealing with health issues.

I would recommend everyone get their vitamin D levels checked, too, because most people are deficient, even in the sunniest parts of the world, because the sun has been villified.  I would suggest looking up information about vitamin D on mercola.com.  He has all the information you need about vitamin D--and then some.  He talks about the correct way to use sunscreen and warns about the majority of them being very toxic.  And, too, sunscreen has been found to actually be the very cause of skin cancer.  And, since the U.K. is located in the same latitude as much of the U.S., your issues will be about the same as they are in the northern part of the U.S. in regards to getting sufficient sun exposure and vitamin D deficiency.  I burn easily myself, so I'll always need to supplement.  The trick is to get tested regularly.

I make mention of vitamin D, because it is essential to the immune system and keeping us healthy.  It even helps with mood and stress.

[lozzyroo]

thank you for the comment,i hardly ever go in the sun so i deffinetly need to top up on the vitamin D lol and i shall go to my local sinasbury store tomorrow and see what i can get for the pribiotic stuff,hopefuly i can find something......sorry if i sound stupid but what does it exactly mean when they need to do the test because of antibiotics o.0 many thanks love from lauren xx

[lozzyroo]

Just an update my stool test has come back to check for the antibiotic thing and that's all normaly.so now i'm referred to the hospital to have more tests done

[lozzyroo]

Another update...my appointment to start going hospital for tests is the 20th of April grrr it's miles away they take the ****

[mouse88]

39 years of constipation

[lozzyroo]

ok i now have tiny hard rigid lumps inside my anus and there's bright red blood in the bowl after passing stool it hurts so much when i pass stool that i cry,it doesn't hurt when i sit down or anything like that just when i go toilet.i'm going doctors today as i'm sure this is to do with my diaahrea i've had