Does anyone have any experience of bowel management clinics and/or royal Manchester children's hospital?

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DS2 has been referred there for fecal incontinence (possibly Hirschsprungs disease)

We have seen a bowel specialist at my local hospital but the consultant wanted to get a second opinion before doing a biopsy and Mr Morabito will be able to advise us better about general bowel management.

Just wondering what to expect.

And does anyone know the easiest way there on public transport? From city centre.

Judging by your other post Paperview I very much doubt hirschsprungs is the cause but more your family problems, your seperation, depression and eating problems. involuntary pooing, weeing and violent outbursts are extremely common in children whose parent are having problems.

As I said in my earlier post - seeing your specialist for depression is an absolute neccesity and will help you cope with this and other situations better and give your children a secure and stable home life.

I haven't made him this way, he was born with problems. It has taken me 7 years to get this particular appointment.

I am seeing the relevant people for my own issues.

I didnt say you made him that way but the types of problems you are currently experiencing will cetainly have a great affect on any child.

Having a parent who has eating issues, depression, who self harms, is going through a seperation and from provious comment has anxiety issues, who close family member has cancer and a BIL who has recently commit suicide will cause problems with even the strongest closely knit family and these have to be looked at aswell as a medical problem but from a professional point and I am sure if you were totally honest with a specialist they would ask you to look at a you family situation first before diagnosing an actual medical problem.

Also in nearly all cases of hirschsprungs it is picked up in infancy not in a 7 year old child.

Shellywelly, whilst I appreciate you taking the time to answer me I'd like to point out that I have posted here for many years about DS2's issues under this name and as mumofmonsters (although I had to ask MNHQ to change the nickname in those posts made as MoM for personal reasons) I have also been some other names that I can't think of right now. (there are a few, I've been here since 2005)

I feel like you are getting at me, not just here but in other recent threads I have made. I may not use MN as much as I used to but I - like many others - need a safe place to go to without being judged.

I am completely aware of my own issues and how they have contributed to difficulties with DS2 and all of my children. And i do understand that i am at fault in some way. However, i have not caused a biological issue in my child that has been ongoing since the day he was born. I am also aware that Hirschprungs is usually diagnosed in newborns, DS2's paediatrician has been thru it with me as have 2 other doctors - one of which is a paediatric bowel specialist who referred us for this second opinion.

It is not always the case that every medical illness is diagnosed correctly and timely. Especially when there are other diagnoses that could be made and need to be ruled out first.

Exactly what I said in a previous post - which you have just accepted - your currently personal problems will affect the treatment, cure and diagnosis of this type of problem so all doctors will ask for you to continue with your own treatment which you seem unwilling to accept.

In the long term your problems will not cause bowel issues but will not help them.

Im certainly not judging you but if you come on a social site list all your problems you have to accept someone will cross reference all your posts to get a big picture.