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digestive consultant?

  • 13-06-2005 9:26am
    #1
    LegacyUser
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 166,012 ✭✭✭✭


    Ok without going into details i have developed a digestive problem, or a problem with my gastro intestinal system.
    I've been to a local GP about it, got tested for a bug (which came back negative) and after that he only suggested "life style" changes (eat different food etc) but i think that's rubbish and believe he doesn't know what he's talking about.
    I saw an allergy specialist and got tested but that was negative too. He put me on a specific diet and said if that doesn't resolve my problem to come back to him and he'll take a chemical or pharmetuetical approach to resolving my digestive problem.
    Grand, however it costs 150€ to talk to that geezer and now i live in a different city so to see him today, it'd cost a days lost wages, train/bus fare and 150€. which is fair amount now isn't it, plus i don't know if he'd just end up referring me to someone else anyway.

    Since then, a few months have lapsed and i still have my digestive problems and what i'd like to do today, is to talk to someone who is a consultant or specialises in the gastro-intestinal tract.
    I might spend 40€ and go to another GP to try and get him/her to refer me on to someone but what i wanted to ask at this board is:
    Is there such a consultant that i could go to without spending 40€ for a GP to refer me?
    Is there a Gastro Intestinal specialist or something because i can't find one in the Golden Pages, do they have some other title, what is it?


Comments

  • #2
    Santa Claus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,699 ✭✭✭Santa Claus


    ALL Consultants require a referral from a GP.


  • #3
    cuckoo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,945 ✭✭✭cuckoo


    You'll have to see a gp for a referral. A consultant gastronenteroligist can do stuff like endoscopies and colonoscopies to try and figure out what's going on - but really, none of them will see you without a referral.


  • #4
    Esel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,690 ✭✭✭✭Esel
    Not Your Ornery Onager


    namewithheld wrote:
    ...I've been to a local GP about it, got tested for a bug (which came back negative) and after that he only suggested "life style" changes (eat different food etc) but i think that's rubbish and believe he doesn't know what he's talking about....

    Why not try that 'ignorant' GP's advice for while? Surely it can't do any harm.
    Also, visit another GP and see what they say. Maybe you can find one who knows what s/he is talking about.

    [/sarcasm]

    Not your ornery onager



  • #5
    Jahl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34 ✭Jahl


    Had a somewhat similar problem myself within the last month or so and unfortunatly the GP is right. Got all the same tests as yourself done and all came back with nada so I was advised to change my diet and see how it changed my condition.

    I usually eat a lot of spicy food and once i cut back on that stuff i was grand within a week. Drink can also effect your g/i system especially drinking a lot of wine.

    2/3 weeks of the changed diet should set you right as rain.


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