What a couple of months it’s been since October. What started off as a bit of a dodgy stomach has developed into the worst 2 months of my life including:-
1. More visits to the doctor than the rest of my life combined
2. More pain than I’ve ever felt before
3. The biggest weight loss and me weighing less than I did when I was 16!
My symptoms were really simple yet excruciatingly painful. My stomach was swollen 24 hours a day, the lower half of my stomach was in constant pain and the lowest part of my spine felt like it had somebody kicking it from the inside! This all god worse within minutes of me eating ANYTHING. The worst part was there was no esacpe from this pain and every trip to the doctors resulting in more painkillers and more blank looks. Even dispite some more sinister symptoms that I’ll not go into here everybody wanted to label it as IBS and “tough luck”. This isn’t ideal when you’re working for yourself. I’ll never trust the NHS again.
Then just to make life even more miserable I started developing upper abdomen pains centred around my actual stomach, when this flared up it felt like my whole chest had stopped working and getting any sleep was totally impossible. Whenever I ate I was either sick straight away or within an hour had the runs, this despite feeling constantly blocked and bloated. I lived like this for 2 months with almost no sleep and very little food. I wasted away rapidly losing almost 2 stone in weight, there were plenty of times when I was “sleeping” on the sofa because I hated the thought of my wife having to wake next to a corpse.
Eventually though I got fed up with hearing the same old rubbish from the doctors (to this day they’ve never run any real tests for anything in order to be able to diagnose IBS). I was hugely fortunate to have a client that knew of a specialist centre out in Thailand. Two emails later and I’d discovered that 1. They couldn’t treat me because of ulcer complications but much more importantly 2. A big list of supplements and diet changes to go through. I can’t thank them enough for their help.
I started on these within 2 days and in less than 2 weeks it has transformed my life. I’d say that at the moment I’m about 80% back to normal and getting better each day. My stomach is no longer bloated at all, I’m eating normally, going to the toilet normal and I’ve finally started to put on a little of that lost weight. I still need to get a few things checked out for the nastier symptoms just to make sure there’s nothing deadly lurking but in terms of a day to day life I’ve gone from being crippled on the sofa 24 hours a day to being back at work.
If what I had for 2 months was IBS then it’s a new one on me, I’ve never suffered from anything like that before and to be honest I never want to again. More amazingly though I can’t get over how simple a fix it was for people who know what they are doing when all the western doctors I’d spoke to were very much resigned to “It’s IBS, tough you just have to live with it”.
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