Ghosts and Ghouls Team Thread (Page 7)

You NEED to find another doctor... considering the issues I have with my stomach it could be a chronic problem or something a lot more serious and at the very least they should be running some bloods and possibly doing some sort of MRI or scope if its that bad...

Been there - how is your wife managing it? I have Ulcerative Colitis (the other type of IBD and a large amount of the drugs/treatments/symptoms are the same - the key difference is the area of the GI system thats affected)

I hope she is managing to keep it under control!

You've been creeped!

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Have you had to have surgery for it?

Thankfully no - it might be something that happens in the next 10-20 years who knows... they aren keen to do it if there is any chance of yuo managing the condition...

And having part of my GI track cut out does not sound like fun....

They put you on a special x-ray machine and start tipping you all sorts of different directions-I guess it is not enough to just make you feel awful, they need to turn it into some sort of slow motion amusement park ride.

When I had all the GI tests I had to drink the barium.  I hope I never ever ever have to do that again.  By the end, I was almost vomiting the barium.  I'd almost rather have it the other way. 

I felt like I was going to puke the barium as well.   

They did a cool test on me. I swallowed a giant capsule full of tiny barium rings. 3 days later They started taking daily x-rays of my gut. As it turns out, more than a week later, half of them were still in my gut.

Did I mention that I have gut issues?

I wonder how many of our team members have been scared off by all our GI talk.

kromanowski - 2008-10-02 7:51 PM

mchally - 2008-10-02 9:05 PM

I wonder how many of our team members have been scared off by all our GI talk.

 

As a surgeon I am probably the only one who is drawn to the thread because of a discussion of GI issues

I think that the human body is fascinating.  I guess that applies to life in general.  I find trees quite fascinating as well.  Are you at all familiar with the healing processes of trees?  It is neat. 

kromanowski - 2008-10-02 8:08 PM

mchally - 2008-10-02 9:57 PM

kromanowski - 2008-10-02 7:51 PM

mchally - 2008-10-02 9:05 PM

I wonder how many of our team members have been scared off by all our GI talk.

 

As a surgeon I am probably the only one who is drawn to the thread because of a discussion of GI issues

I think that the human body is fascinating. I guess that applies to life in general. I find trees quite fascinating as well. Are you at all familiar with the healing processes of trees? It is neat.

I am not...I did not take much botany as part of my biology degree

You mean that they don't cover flora in med school??? What is the world coming to?

I took a class from a guy who, in the past, would have been referred to as a Tree Surgeon.

kromanowski - 2008-10-02 10:51 PM

mchally - 2008-10-02 9:05 PM

I wonder how many of our team members have been scared off by all our GI talk.

 

As a surgeon I am probably the only one who is drawn to the thread because of a discussion of GI issues

I work in clinical research.  I'm always interested in medical stuff. 

kromanowski - 2008-10-02 8:51 PM

mchally - 2008-10-02 9:05 PM

I wonder how many of our team members have been scared off by all our GI talk.

 

As a surgeon I am probably the only one who is drawn to the thread because of a discussion of GI issues

And since I clean up puke...and snot...and pee...and blood... for a living, it takes more than a little GI issue to scare me away. oh, and did I mention I have a daughter with chronic GI issues as well? And a dad with irritable bowel syndrome?

 Ummm, I'm not sure.

heh...I don't gross out that easily, except when I'm around blue jollyranchers or brussel sprouts

I had some terrible stuff going on when I was going through marathon training.  Luckily, I fixed it with some diet changes.