Eek.
Just found out my waiting time to see a gastroenterologist could be 74 days. I can understand why some people decide not to wait it out now.
Nevertheless I'm gonna hold on. I've not tried a gluten-free diet at all so I have no idea yet whether it might help yet.
Cheers for the advice everyone.
Yeah, I'm pretty much loading on gluten - including it in as many meals as I can.
I feel terrible, but then my symptoms have been pretty constant so it doesn't make much difference at the moment - I don't really know any different.
I'm not worried at all aout the endo. I'm gonna opt for conscious sedation as I had that when having some teeth removed...
I think I want to press ahead with the endo because I might not get another chance. This way they can have a look inside and figure out if any thing is majorly wrong.
I don't want to mask anything majorly wrong in there by ameliorating my symptoms.
I will attempt the gluten-free diet even if my endo is negative. I'd just rather have a negative endo...
The thing is, I was vegan for three and a half years and I still had the same symptoms. One of the main reasons I started eating meat and dairy again was so that I could keep my weight up. This led me to the conclusion that since I'm not adversely affected by meat, dairy or eggs that it wasn't my diet causing my symptoms.
I hadn't thought about how the...
I have endured gastro-intestinal symptoms for a long time such as cramps, gas, constipation, fatty stools and diarrhoea. As a result I was diagnosed with IBS twelve or so years ago.
Along with this I have experienced low weight and unexplained weight loss for nearly a decade. This has progressed from me finding it difficult to stay at a low but healthy...