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Nearly a year ago I was quite healthy and then out of the blue I suddenly had a terrible pain in my stomach / abdomen which went on and on after eating some raw cloves of garlic. The doctor insisted I had ulcers and gafve me ppis. They helped. From this he deduced he had got it right.
After months it went and I stopped taking them. Then one day I had some probiotic capsules and the following day BAM that terrible stomach was there again and in absolute agony for over a month. The doctor said oh dear you must have a hiatus hernia. I pointed out to her that I also found my ears got blocked, and headaches, stuffed nose and it seemed more like acid reflux to me. She ignored me. I was sent for an endoscopy which I had today. The doctor who did it asked me about my symptoms and ignored everything I said except for the bit about the stomach aches.
She then said there was no hernia or ulcer etc so it it is probably gallstones. Gallstones do not give you headaches, blocked ears, blocked runny nose! Nor do they suddenly come on after taking some biotic capsules!
Why don't they listen properly?
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marlene21102 carmel83758
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carmel83758 marlene21102
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flowersgirl72 carmel83758
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carmel83758 flowersgirl72
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Yet their health is far more important. They totally trust the doctor which I have found to be a huge mistake.
A few years ago I was attacked and had a badly damaged eye where the skin was all hanging down under. It was awful and weeping and I had to have my face all bandaged up. I went to accident and emergency and was told I had to go home and give it a chance to heal a bit first and then go back in a few weeks. So I did as I was told. When I went back a few weeks later they told me that it had healed too much and was now permanently damaged and they should have looked at it straight away. So there is a permanent scar there.
Another time when I had fallen down the stairs and my wrist was in agony and getting worse every day I was told it was not fractured - yet it turned out it was.
So I don't automatically believe everything that someone tells me just because they are a doctor or nurse.
And of course if you go to a doctor for an endoscopy they are looking for things like damaged stomach lining or holes so they wont see things like a lack of red blood cells.
You can tell your symptoms to anyone, something you have given a great deal of thought and research to and some bright spark will say OH MAYBE YOU ARE WRONG AND MAYBE IT IS SUCH AND SUCH after only thinking about it for two minutes and ignoring half of the symptoms. Same as the doctors.
Some people are also far too quick to ask for the opinions of others. They say they have ibs or whatever and ask everyone else what they should or should not eat. Forgetting it is different for everyone and they have to research it and look into it, they cannot cut corners and just ask someone else and have all of the answers instantly.
flowersgirl72 carmel83758
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