I’ve had raging heartburn for 6 months now, including bloating and fullness after meals. I look pregnant after just a bowl of cereal! Not to mention acne appeared around the same time and I am constipated on and off too. GP is useless, put me on omeprazole and said bye. I have been persistent and gone back multiple times and managed to get him to do an H-Pylori test which was negative. So he just doubled my tablets and told me to come back in 3 months. I’ve asked him to do a SIBO test but he says he’s never heard of it!! I asked for an endoscopy too and he wrote to the gastro team at the hospital and said they’ve agreed I don’t need one!
im at a total loss. Nobody is helping me and I’ve done countless hours of my own research and believe it’s yeast or bacterial overgrowth in my stomach. I’ve tried different diets and cutting out certain foods to see if it is an intolerance but my symptoms are just the same.
im willing to try anything at this stage including paying for a course of metronidazole which is used to clear bacterial infections but obviously don’t want to be messing with tablets if I don’t need to. I’m just at a total loss with no help.
anyone had anything similar and how did you get support?