Diseases & Conditions - 17 October 2007

Does anyone else feel like there Dr fobs them off?

I've had excruciating back pain and abdominal pain for 8 weeks now, bleeding from my back passage, vomiting and I've lost a stone in 6 weeks beacuse I can't eat. It's agony if someone knocks my stomach too. He reckons I'm to young for an endoscopy (I'm 27).I must of dreamt the one I had last year for an ulcer!! And I'm to young for the blood to be serious...Bleeding from your back passage is not normal at any age!! He gave me tablets for bowel spasm. Told me to go back if it still hurts...ARGH!!

My question is does anyone else feel like there Dr doesn't listen? Just dismisses things...Have you been fobbed off and it turned out to be serious?

2007-10-17 23:14:47 · 19 answers · asked by ?????? ??g?? 1 in Other - Diseases

My father has lost a lot of weight due to diarrea. He has been in the hospital since Thursday. There is a possibility that he is bleeding through his intestines or has an infections. What can I do to help him get better?
Any natural remedies to stop the diarrea? Or is there any food that can stop that? He has been living in my cousins house and she has no consideration about what he suppose to eat. I am moving soon, that is why he is not living with me until I move which is going to be in a month from now.

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2007-10-17 22:22:37 · 4 answers · asked by question dude 2 in Infectious Diseases

my Mom aches as i mentioned above, if she goes too long without taking ibuprofen (she takes two-200 mg. daily and one 325 mg. of aspirin dailey, later as blood thinner and the ipuprofen for her rheumatoid arthritis --which she does NOT have badly for 3 yrs. now;
she took methroxate ? (spelling ?) 3 yrs ago for only 7 wks. & she just stopped going to her Rheumatologist. She's been on statin, Zocor, 1 mo. for high cholesterol; I wonder if her aching is caused by Statins; she seems to be weaker & tire more easily too, since she's been on Zocor, but it's hard to tell What causes What! Are there certain tests her Doc can do -to see if the Zocor is causing the aching all-over. She only takes the aspirin and ibuprophen ONCE daily in dosage i mentioned above, but if she takes them a few hrs LATER than usual, the aching returns.
Can her rheumatoid arthritis cause tHAT TYPE OF aching, even tho her hands, etc, are not in pain--as they were a few yrs ago.
thanks; Mom, 57 onThanksgiving.

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Has anybody had this happen? What was the cause?

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