What is wrong with me?

[Old Hack]

Have you been travelling back to the UK every weekend? Because that's pretty knackering, and if you had a cold or a flu before starting the contract then you might not have given yourself a chance to recover. Also, you're probably eating restaurant food all the time, which tends to be fatty, contain a fair bit of sugar and doesn't always have all the vitamins. I've done long stints away from home and realised that if it's a bit of a trip, it's best not to go home every weekend; get Mrs Suity and the Suitysprogs to come over to Germany for a long weekend once a month or so, and maybe stay there on your own for a weekend each month.

When I was working in Munich, Mrs OH and the dustbins came over every other week. Worked fine.

[amcdonald]

Bound to be stress, you mind can really mess up your body if you let it

Best to get away from everything sometimes, I used to disappear off surfing to rebalance.

These days I just get about with a camera, and do photoshoots for peeps

[SueEllen]

When I was working in Munich, Mrs OH and the dustbins came over every other week. Worked fine.

Why are they called dustbins?

[Paddy]

Been ill since I started here in Germany. Low grade fever, aches, pains, bowel pains, loose etc etc.

Caught something and I can't shift it. Gets worse at night or after any sort of exercise.

So first weekend back I went to the Walk In Centre in Luton. The doctors wasn't much help as I wasn't registered there, so said she couldn't organise any tests, but I should go and see my GP and ask him to investigate. She said I needed a raft of different blood tests and a stool sample.

So SY02 rang the doctors on the Monday. Weekend appointments booked up for the next 3 weeks. So I wait 3 weeks, then go and see the quack. Ooh you need blood tests and stuff can you come back in a week?

But your phlebotomist is right here in the surgery, right now?

Yep but you need an appointment, so you need to come back in a week.

But I've just waited 3, you want me to wait another week? Can't some sort of common sense be exercised here as I work away during the week?

Not a chance.

So now 4 weeks on I have the results of my blood tests back. All fine. Even my liver is working within agreed tolerances. How I don't know.

So I went back to the doctors to arrange the stool sample (why the **** didn't they organise this in the first place?)

Results back in today, all fine.

So what the **** is wrong with me? Am I so far biologically advanced that the doctors can't diagnose?

Is it worth going private or will this just be writing a blank cheque?

A visit to Dr Muller's will relieve your stress.

[Old Hack]

Why are they called dustbins?

Dustbin lids - Kids

[proggy]

Sound like Aids, don't worry they have cured it, almost.

[gingerjedi]

I had the pre-digital age version of this back in 92, when I returned from travelling. Now that did effin hurt.

Found nothing either, so ruined two perfectly happy adults days, for nothing. I recall your man saying 'I don't want to do this as much as you don't want me to do this, but we've got to do this nonetheless.

I was simply overtired and your body does all sorts of strange tulip if you're overtired.

My first was about 1996 and it wasn't as bad as you describe, when you're feeling that ill you'd put up with pretty much anything to get to the bottom of it (pun intended).

[OwlHoot]

I had all the symptoms you describe and tests came back fine, camera up the back passage will be the next step.

It's not as bad as you think... once you learn to relax.

and as long as they don't use the wide-angle lens

It's probably as simple as a diet thing - I think the Germans typically use more fat than us in their cooking, and in Germany things like salad cream for example are practically all lard

[suityou01]

My first was about 1996 and it wasn't as bad as you describe, when you're feeling that ill you'd put up with pretty much anything to get to the bottom of it (pun intended).

Yep I would take a camera up the bottom if it would diagnose it.

I have on occasion been close to tears with this. It's ruined my cycling season, made traveling an absolute mammoth chore.

I think what's making it worse is that the GP can't accommodate me a bit better. Wait 3 weeks to be seen? Absolute nonsense. Should be like, well ok SY01, I understand you work away and this is a short term inconvenience to us. We can squeeze you in at the end of surgery this saturday as its exceptional circumstances. But no.

[OwlHoot]

Yep I would take a camera up the bottom if it would diagnose it.

I have on occasion been close to tears with this. It's ruined my cycling season, made traveling an absolute mammoth chore.

I think what's making it worse is that the GP can't accommodate me a bit better. Wait 3 weeks to be seen? Absolute nonsense. Should be like, well ok SY01, I understand you work away and this is a short term inconvenience to us. We can squeeze you in at the end of surgery this saturday as its exceptional circumstances. But no.

Why be a victim of the NHS? Surely the solution is simple - Go to a private German doctor.