To visit the walk in centre?

[Sienna333]

The top of my bumcrack has a small white/flesh coloured spot on it and although it looks insignificant, it is stinging like mad and I can barely sit. AIBU to go to the walk in centre? I can't take a minute more of this and what's worse is that I am on my period :(

I really think these threads need to be deleted. The OP won't listen and it just fuels her mental illness.

And more and more posters get frustrated and angry and troll hunt or attack the OP. MNHQ should know this, it's happened numerous times in the past.

I have also asked for this thread to be deleted but MNHQ seem reluctant to do so.

They'll probably make the usual claim that they want the OP to get support from the threads.

Not sure what support she'll gain from being told she has Munchausens or is just a trolly attention seeker though.

And I firmly believe it's damaging for OPs to have repeated threads on the same topics. As long as there's a thread to express their anxiety on they're distracted from getting real life help.

I’d just like to contribute my story. This year I have had about 10 bouts of hideous runs. To the point where I went to the doctors.

They ordered an colonoscopy. Stool samples. My symptoms were all pointing to an inflamed pancreas and also had a scan.

During this year, my stress levels have been through the roof. My anxiety was so bad I had a terrible bout of depression were I couldn’t get up for two weeks.

In this time, my anti depressants were changed and slowly I began to feel better.

During my time of recovery my stomach cramps, the runs, and everything relating to my stomach problems began to clear up.

They also found nothing wrong me my insides, my bowels, everything. I was clear of UC, crohns, anthing to do with my pancreas.

My symptoms were SO physical I thought there was no way this could be down to anxiety. It couldn’t be possible.

But it was. Every single symptom I had disappeared after I sought treatment for my depression.

The mind is a powerful thing. Don’t underestimate that.

I understand you are feeling so anxious, but please seek help for this. I believe your physical symptoms won’t subside unless you do. I understand you feel there is something terribly wrong, and we can’t convince you otherwise. But please, address this anxiety in your life. You may find you feel physically better.

OP, please get some help for your anxiety for the sake of your daughter, even if you won’t do it for yourself. Your earlier comment about her having to ‘accept having a mother with a chronic illness’ really worries me. She is only 9, don’t pass your anxieties on to her.

I really think you need to stop researching IBD and leave your care in the hands of real medical professionals, not google. Even if your imagined worst case scenario does happen and you are diagnosed you will be given useful, relevant support and information then. Your current mental state will be making things worse.

Remember, you have seen doctors several times. If they were really worried you would have been seen urgently in hospital. You have said yourself even if you do have IBD it is likely to be mild and at the moment you have no pain. In the probably unlikely event that you are diagnosed, living with the condition won’t be how you imagine or how google tells you it will. I have MS, it really isn’t what I thought it would be at all. Yes a chronic condition changes your life, to a varying degree, but in my experience, it doesn’t mean your life is suddenly awful and it certainly shouldn’t mean your children’s is.

As we are on bowel watch- this morning mucousy blood when I wiped. Fwiw I do NOT for an inflammatory condition

It's laughable this.

Convinced she knows what it is when she isn't a dr.

I had similar symptoms and got diagnosed with something rare most people have never heard of and hasnt been mentioned on here.

I won't name it as op will Google it and come back convinced she has it

She can only diagnose herself with the things she has heard of. Whereas it could be anything or nothing.

It is just too funny.

If she did have what it have. Entirely treatable and full recovery. No chronic illness. How sad.

It's really not funny, Niki, OP is acutely unwell - mentally

I meant funny in a sardonic way.

I mean this kindly OP but do you struggle to get attention in other areas of your life? Does illness fill that gap for you? You seem very vested in ‘proving’ to randomers on the internet and your family ‘just how ill’ you are. I’m curious that your first reaction isn’t ‘how will I cope with an illness and a small DD’ but ‘my daughter will have to learn to accept that I am chronically ill’. It’s all about you. That might be something to explore with a psychologist.

I agree I am being selfish at he moment, it is the anxiety taking over. I need to go for a camera procedure just to confirm what I already know so I can live my life. The D has been bad today and that sulfur type smell is not normal and is common in people with inflammatory diseases. My mind won't be put at rest until I do this and if it comes to it, I will go private so I don't have to wait months to be seen. I need
answers. This isn't just an infection, I am 99% sure this is my second flare up. Once I know I can go back to the person I was because I dislike this Sienna too. It just isn't me.

Niki, I am assuming you mean piles or giardis.....

Your mind won't be at rest until you sort your health anxiety. You are being selfish.

sulfur type smell is not normal and is common in people with inflammatory diseases.

Also a common symptom of a lactose intolerance.

Blood in stool here and there as well as prolonged diarrhea would make them refer me. I had a past episode of 21 days with D with what I thought was a bug but now am thinking it was UC. Now I have the bleeding on and off, sulfur type gas like before and D back again of which it has now been 5 days and no signs of stopping :(

Sulphury farts and poo is a feature of infection. DD, DSIL and I all had noro last winter and sulphury smelling farts and poo were definitely very much an issue. Also after noro or other stomach infection it’s not uncommon to have temporary lactose intolerance or IBD symptoms. So it could be that the symptoms in October have triggered this general upset.

From people I know with health or any other type of anxiety, it does make you selfish. Same with depression . They are so all consuming that people do often become very self absorbed/obsessed. I do hope you can get support with your anxiety because it sounds really awful to have to feel that way. It is also a total thief of the truth, convincing people they are or will go through all sorts of hellish situations. Interestingly the things that have gone badly wrong in my life are things that had I been an anxious person, I’d never even have thought to worry about they were so unexpected and out of the ordinary.

I have had bladder infections for years and 5 weeks ago had an investigative op. I’d convinced myself it was a total waste of time and that it wouldn’t show anything as previous scans and cystoscopies had bee fine. I was very tempted to cancel and it was DD who told me I might regret it ants that I wasn’t a medic and had no idea whether it would be helpful or not. She was right. I had it done and it showed up a fairly unusual chronic bladder condition and ruled out interstitial cystitis which they thought I probably had. So as non medics however much we might think we know what’s wrong or not wrong ( google is definitely a nightmare for non medics) we do have to give them some credit and trust that they want to do the best for us.

Blood in stool here and there as well as prolonged diarrhea would make them refer me.

You haven't been referred though have you?

Not until the blood tests and stool tests are back but they will show abnormalities. Feel sick today and already had 2 bouts of D as well aa a fever. I just want to know what is going on, I feel terrible.

But your first stool tests didn't show any abnormalities. Think about it rationally.

When was your stool sample sent?

I am going to be cruel to be kind, you are NOT a doctor and this is your mental health talking - you do not have anything physically wrong with you. Get help for your mental health and all will be well, I'm out now as this thread is just feeding into the OP mental health issues.