I just received an email from my Dr and she said, "Because you are experiencing dizziness, confusion, muscle cramps, it is likely that you have a severe electrolyte imbalance which has been brought on by your chronic diarrhea, I strongly urge you to go to our urgent care facility or to the emergency room, today. In any event, do not, repeat, do not, start the elimination diet you mentioned in your last email.
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Ahem . . . Did I or did I not warn you about taking advice from people on the Internet who do not know your medical history and are not specialists?
May I suggest you listen to the professionals this time, and donāt just buy your own drugs and do your own thing, because if your way was going to work, you would have been better long ago.
Best of luck Bakerman. I hope you did what the doc asked you to do this time.
I have been under the care of a G.I Dr for many years. He has NOT been able to cure me despite being a professional. So much for āprofessionalismā. Thus, I reached out, looking for any suggestions from others.
So did you do what the doc suggested today?
Did you go to the urgent care facility or the emergency room?
Mups it sounds like Bakerman was doing the right thing in contacting his doctor and explaining a plan to do a diet. If the doctors were any good they would have referred him to a dietician by now so that he could do this in a medically supervised way. Iāve had to work out my own food problems by myself as most doctors are pretty clueless when it comes to gastrointestinal disorders. A friend of mine had a serious cancer and had ascites and was told by her GP not to worry it was IBS!
That is what I was suggesting he did, in post 12! This happened to my sister and no doctor referred her to a dietician until I insisted that is where she would get the best help.
It took 12 weeks to cure the problem, but it also means some changes to your regular diet. A dietician & sticking to their diet is the best way of curing these problems, if your doctor can find no serious reasons for problems you are having!
Yes Annie, which is what I kept suggesting he do.
It worried me that we kept telling him what to try, when this has already gone on for so long and might have been dangerous.
It could have been cancer for all we know.
Going to the loo 16-20 times a day is abnormal and needs sorting, not home remedies. None of know what damage that has done.
I stand by what I said about if home remedies were going to work in this case, they would have done by now, and I just hope he did what the doctor told him to do this time, and went to the Urgent Care place.
Yes, I know Twink, and said the same and agreed with you in post 18.
I am glad your sister is better of course, but that does not mean Bakerman has the same problem.
It might be of course, but it could also be something much more serious, and he is delaying true diagnosis and treatment.
I would hope the doctors he has seen have already ruled out anything too serious. Lets hope it isnāt and the dietician he is going to see will sort the problem for him!
Twink I think Bakerman said he cannot get access to a dietician via healthcare providers where he lives.
Annie, he also says now that he has been having dizziness, confusion and muscle cramps as well as diarrohea for the last 9 years! :shock:
Would you allow that to continue if it were you, because I certainly wouldnāt!
I suspect we donāt know the half, so will be leaving this thread now.
Not quite what I meant. I only meant to say that I have had violent diarrhea for 9 years. (Immediately after moving into Mexico) The dizziness, mental confusion, and leg muscle cramps are all a new thing.
I called 911 and an ambulance took me to went to the emergency room and they kept me over-night to do multiple liters of IV saline drip. they would only release me went they understood that I will be seeing another Dr at my clinic this coming Wednesday. Dr talked a lot to me, but since Iām deaf, I could not understand one bit of it. I asked him would he please write it down so I could read it, but he just ignored me.
PS: Drās are not trained in proper diets. When ever I mention diets, or food caused illness, their eyes gloss-over, and they get a blank look on their faces.
Lest people think I have not been actively pursuing a cure, they should know that I have seen a top G.I specialist dozens and dozens of times. multiple endoscopies up the bum, stomach endoscopies, and once swallowed a HUGE horse pill that took photos of everything from mouth to toilet. Lost track of how many times they have tested stools samples, urine samples and blood tests.
Mups, unfortunately NOBODY knows the half of it. If someone did, Iād be cured by now. The big tip-off is the diagnosis of IBS-D which is a catch-all name that means next to nothing.
Glad you are ok today Bakerman. I suspect the doctor may have been telling you how to stop getting severely dehydrated in the next few days while you await the appointment. We have something called dioralyte in the uk which you dissolve in water to rebalance your body after losing fluid as a result of stomach bugs. Perhaps the doctor you see next week will advise you of something similar you can buy.
Dehydration can give you palpitations and make you light headed.