What is wrong with me?

[SueEllen]

If you are back in the UK watch this week's Embarrassing Bodies on 4OD.

Nice section on irritable bowel and inflammatory bowel disease.

[Old Greg]

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.

Tell them you need an emergency appointment. Make something up. Appointment given.

[Mich the Tester]

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

whs

[xoggoth]

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

As I has a lady doctor at the time I was hoping it would be great fun. Just had to be a male stand in! Bah!

[proggy]

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

Saturated fat is good for you, sugar/carbohydrates are the things to cut down as much as possible.

[SueEllen]

Saturated fat is good for you, sugar/carbohydrates are the things to cut down as much as possible.

Not in large amounts.

Otherwise vegetarians wouldn't be healthier in general than the rest of us.

[Old Hack]

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).

I was being polite; there was no camera, just, I believe, 2 fingers, maybe 3, and several knuckles.

[Mich the Tester]

Saturated fat is good for you, sugar/carbohydrates are the things to cut down as much as possible.

That depends for a large part on your daily activities. If I cut down my carbs I'd probably fall off my bike at the first gust of wind.

[proggy]

Not in large amounts.

Otherwise vegetarians wouldn't be healthier in general than the rest of us.

But they could be eating loads of saturated fat as well? Cheese,cream butter etc.

[Ketchup]

Try 1 of these 3 times a day: