Experiences with

Endoscopy gastrointestinal

Has anyone on here ever done stool testing through a company to find out various things like good bugs, bad bugs, inflammatory markers, leaky gut etc, and did it prove anything and was it worth it. I have been talking to a nutritionist who suggested stool testing, but I have heard its a waste of time

After this, they had a colonoscopy and an upper-gastrointestinal endoscopy to investigate the state of their microbiome throughout the gut. As expected, a lot of major changes occurred in the function of the microbes – many of which died because of the antibiotics,” says Elinav.

I'm utterly physically and mentally exhausted. Had lifelong IBS and had flare ups in the past but nothing like this! Got viral gastroenteritis on holiday 6 wks ago. Since then have spent 3wks in hospital with D&V trying to get on top of it, the pain and hydration. I've lost a stone and half. I'm being

I think I've had gastroenteritis. The dr reckons it's led to post infective IBS. I think I had Covid that started it. My poos are like yellow liquid at the mo. Tried live yoghurt today. What is gastroenteritis. poo like? How long did you have it for? What helped?

I had an appointment at the ENT clinic at the end of October. They used a camera scope up my nose and into my throat. The consultant discharged me. The letter I received following the consultation said nose examination was unremarkable, endoscopic examination was unremarkable except for signs of reflux

Hello. I was diagnosed with MASLD cirrhosis a year ago. I had an endoscopy which found 2 small varices. I have just had another endoscopy today a year later and I have been told I haven't got any varices and everything looks normal. I was under the impression that varices didn't go away. My question

my husband, 52 has been an alcoholic for many years, functioning until he wasn’t. Just over 2 years ago he started becoming confused with increasing mobility issues and kept dropping everything. I spoke to the gp several times and they told me if he was refusing to go to hospital there was nothing

I have ibs and bam so over the last few I have had ct scan endoscopy and ultrasound didn't find nothing major my problem is I take colesevelam for the bam 1-2 a day but it causes really bad constipation I do take movicol to get me going again but get really bad stomach pains on a morning, I have been

I hope some of you may be able to give me some advice. I had endoscopy about 3 weeks ago after my GP referred me to Gastroenterologist. It came back with diagnosis of Gastritis which I already knew about. I’m clear of Hpylori but doctor took 4 biopsies which I am waiting on results. Due to inflammation

Hi. Wondered if anyone could shed some light on this as I'm getting really concerned. Iv been having really bad flare ups for over 2 years now. These now include some sort of blood in the stool. Not a massive amount but it's there. I recently took ill whilst on a holiday in Turkey. They did me an ultrasound

Hi all - Sorry for the long post. I was diagnosed with hypothyroidism and diabetes 10 years ago. I’ve been on 125g thyroxine and metformin for my diabetes. This time last year I the most awful itching rash (urticaria) . After taking high doses of steroids drugs and anti histamines I finally

Hi all I was given a presumptive diagnosis of endometriosis in 2020 after having symptoms for years that I normalised. I did have a USS in 1995 which was normal so just thought painful heavy periods was something I had to put up with. I have since had a hysteroscopy and the Mirena coil fitted in 2021

I am downgrading my doctor from unicorn status. I’ve had the most frustrating appointment to date where she has (un)helpfully told me that she doesn’t know how safe EOD injections for “such a long period of time” is and that she wants me to start exploring other avenues for treating my symptoms. When

My poor Dad is 7 years into MSA-C he’s fighting so hard to maintain a quality of life but it’s getting harder & harder. Dad has been in hospital 4 x this year chest & urine infections & as I have read on here each time he goes in he comes back home worse than before. A real problem we are having currently

Can anybody help? I have had chest symptoms for four years.I am an ex smoker of 35 years and four years ago, woke up unable to breathe properly and pain through my whole chest which particularly hurt like a searing pain if I pressed down on it. It was COVID time so nobody could see me but emergency

hi everyone not posted in a while! I’m doing good for those of you who have been following my journey, now I have another one to share, my husband has been told his iron levels are very low, he’s gone from 1000 to 40 , he had throat cancer over ten years ago, his voice box was removed, he’s now none

Hi. I spent a year on Orserdu and we stopped it in July because I had severe diarrhea. We hoped stopping it would cause the diarrhea to go away. It hasn’t stopped. I’ve been tested for intestinal infections and had a colonoscopy and there were no issues. I’m scheduled for an endoscopy next week.

hi everyone I’ve suffered with reflux for years had a recent endoscopy and was told I had mild gastritis had 3 biopsies taken still waiting for results from September over chased them up been told it can take 4 months!!! Been docs can’t give me any kind of relief until they know what the biopsies are

Hi everyone I wrote a post but I don't know what happened to it. I'm writing for a friend and for me. I've recently been diagnosed with thick blood and I have to wait till December 2nd to get a secondary test to make sure it's still thick or not. My friend was just diagnosed with pernicious anemia and

Hi i was in urgent care last wk for stomach issue & had blood tests, bp chest x ray etc but also ecg. All the dr told me was that it had changes but he didnt have anything to compare it with, i was given the ecg report along with other paper work to take to another dept.I looked at ecg which said abnormal