My appointment with destiny

Well, OK, not destiny, but it sounds better than “my appointment with nutritionist”. Anyway, I had it.

And it was pretty good – I actually, genuinely came OUT of the appointment feeling better than when I went IN, which, if you are an IBS sufferer and have visited a number of healthcare people, you will know is exceedingly rare and quite exciting.

I now have a pin-prick test kit to do the food intolerance ELISA test, and I’m going to do a CDSA (comprehensive digestive stool analysis) test as well to check for bad bugs and beasties (I was going to write a separate blog entry about these but time got away from me, maybe next week I’ll catch up).

The first thing that the nutritionist said to me when I walked in was that he thought that my severe food poisoning episode I had when I was 12 may have left me with some bad bacteria, so the plan is to a) find out what kind of bacteria they are and then b) kill them, leaving me with c) a perfect working digestive system and no worries in the world.

OK, not c), but definitely a) and b), and if c) can just be “get a bit better and function a bit more like a normal person” then that’s good enough for me.

I should have all the results of the tests in around a month, and obviously I’ll let you know what they say, and what treatments are recommended. But at least I’m doing something rather than just resigning myself to another 15 years of this rubbish.