Yeah I just feel like I could easily sleep my life away. I was fatigued before the bowel thing, as it comes with arthritis... but now its just a totally different ball game. I use most of the weekend to catch up on my sleep and my parents are ALWAYS having a go at me for being lazy, despite knowing about all this stuff.
My GP was great, she referred me straight away to a gastro, but its them i seem to be having the issue with. The doctor was foreign, and I had great difficulty conveying how I felt to him.
He was just asking questions and I felt like he was going down a checklist of yes/nos that anyone with no medical knowledge could do!! He didn't ask about my previous medical history/when it started/any other symptoms I was concerned about. And because I was having a relatively good day bowels wise, I probably wasn't presenting any symptoms when he had a poke at my tum.
He said I probably have IBS, but even I can see that i'm not presenting with the symptoms for it. I'm getting a colonoscopy but that seems to be a huge wait.
I'm struggling to keep up at work, been referred to occupational health (who I'm sure will yap the face off me for not keeping up) and I just feel completely crap about myself and the whole thing.
my parents yap, my friends don't understand, my sister is incredibly cruel, my doctors don't listen... I'm a disappointment to everyone. I just feel like giving up completely