Digestive Problems
Symptoms patients often consult me with include:
- Indigestion, acidity, bloating, wind
- Swallowing difficulties, loss of appetite, taste disturbance
- Vomiting or weight loss, often unexplained
- Abdominal pain or swelling
- Altered bowel function, constipation, diarrhoea
- Altered form or colour of faeces
- Rectal bleeding and/or pain
- Itching of the skin or anus
- Jaundice (yellow discolouration of the eyes and skin)
- Fatigue, loss of energy
Medically unexplained symptoms when patients do not know what else to do:
- Continued gynaecological symptoms in women despite normal laparoscopy
- Chest pain when cardiologists have excluded cardiac disease with negative Stress ECHO and/or coronary angiogram
- Undiagnosed digestive symptoms and/or abdominal pain inspite of negative investigations
- Inability to shake off the after-effects of a tummy bug
- Psychological effects secondary to chronic digestive symptoms
- A second specialist opinion with a “fresh pair of eyes”
Interpretation of abnormal test results:
- Anaemia of unknown cause
- Abnormal liver blood tests
- Raised CRP or ESR, indicating inflammation somewhere in the body
- Vitamin deficiencies, including iron, B12, folic acid
- Scan or xray abnormalities of uncertain significance
- Endoscopic abnormalities of uncertain significance