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Bums be embarrassing ... except to Drs, Practice Nurses, Health Visitors ........ Make that appt, take a list of your symptoms and hand to your Dr. who will be able to reassure you, make any necessary examiantion and referrals if he/she thinks you need them. Our bowels can tell a LOT about our general health. I used to check my spaniel's motions every day as she had a potty routine and that routine told me about her overall health. Let...

Thanks for that Suzy! Ta. Since posting my query up, I've checked with the GMC, RCGP and the BMA and they all state guidelines that all doctors are obliged to inform patients of what's involved in examinations and they are also obliged to let patients know of side effects, especially unpleasant ones that will or may cause long term problems after treatment. So in short, they are failing in their duty(ies), if they don't and can...

Oh, that's really interesting… good to know these things so you can bring them into a conversation if they don't happen. But does it help? For a couple of years I had a doctor who was so criminally incompetent – she would never ever examine or even touch you, for instance, she "diagnosed" you from the other side of her desk – I did go through the proper procedure of reporting her and there was an exchange...

Thankyou for your message, i just find it really embarrassing (and i read on here what they will do! ;-( )

I have been having chest pains .and was told it might be angina. And have recently had a stress cardiograph which was normal. Over the last few days getting pain in my left lung , also tightness in my chest. Don,t know what to do about it, because test was normal for angina. any ideas ?

Thanks for your response, I am still unsure what it is. Touch wood its been good today and i have had relatively no chest pain however there is still time and it often happens when I'm lying down trying to get sleep for example. I do care about my health but i experience so many health problems and i don't want my parents knowing. Also not only that but id probably be having a good day it always happens when i pluck up the...

Sounds like a haemoroid to me. My partner had one a year or two ago and just got told to leave it be and to change his diet slightly. It did clear up by itself. As for the diet side, i think he had to cut out certain fibres, such as wheat. TC

sounds like quite a bit of blood if it was in the bowl. i know you dont want to hear this, but you need to go to the doctor.No one on here will be able to diagnose you.

I'm stuck as to what to say, I think I'm doing really well with family and outside stuff but work stuff is ganging up on me again and I really don't know where to turn, I put a brave face on in the day and come home and cry about it all, don't know whether to get the union involved or not but worry I'm just being too sensitive and should just think f..k it do what you like. I've been off my anti d's a long...

For the past few weeks i have noticed a greyish mucus on top of the stool. It doesnt appear when I am constipated only when i have a soft stool. I have also noticed blood once and I have been getting pains in my back.