My experience of Digestive Disorders

GASTROSCOPY HOW IT STARTED A few months ago I invited my other half's family to my place for Sunday dinner. Roast beef with all the trimmings followed by a traditional trifle - scrummy! Lovely eh? Not for me it wasn't - after swallowing just one small piece of beef my throat became tight - I tried and tried by although the meat had been swallowed - it wasn't going right down. It was stuck - somewhere in my lower throat. I made my apologies and went to the bathroom - highly embarrassed and mortified that this was happening the first time my future in laws had visited. I spent 4 hours trying to dislodge the offending morsel - the ...

As you read this opinion, I want you to keep one fact uppermost in your mind. That is that I am not a doctor and I have no medical qualifications - however, what I do have (unfortunately) is a lot of personal experience of the problem I am about to describe. That problem is adhesions. Adhesions are fibrous bands of internal scar tissue that attach themselves to organs and tissue causing them to stick together. In other words, they form abnormal connections between two parts of the body. These 'pull' as you move, often causing severe and persistent pain. They can be caused by infections, by chemotherapy and radiotherapy and by medical conditions such as ...

This opinion is all about irritable bowel syndrome and I hope that for anyone who doesn't suffer they bear with this opinion and its crudity. I hope it's not featured on the front page of dooyoo! Rather embarrassing! I will give my opinion on Irritable Bowel Syndrome, in the hope that it will be of use to others. I have suffered from this disorder for about ten years now and think I have finally solved my trouble. I do not want to go into the whole ins and outs of what the disorder scientifically is all about and in fine detail, as others have voiced their opinions and they are excellent and I agree completely with their view. They cover all ...