I see a lot of patients wrongly diagnosed with IBS
It breaks my heart seeing patients when they come to me with this problem and they have been suffering for years.
Conditions
I thought my brain fog was due to stress – but it was dementia
Jim Rogers thought his brain fog and absent-mindedness was due to stress or a side effect of cholesterol medication. Then he was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s at just 55.
‘I’m learning to drive again with no hands or feet’
When a bout of flu gave a Central Coast father the shakes, he laid down for a rest — when he “awoke” three weeks later it was to the worst news of his life.
They told me I didn’t have cancer, but a tumour sat there for months
One of two women who had their breast biopsies swapped in a shocking BreastScreen Queensland bungle has told of her devastation after being given a false all-clear.
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I thought only boys have this. But then I got diagnosed too
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Why I hope to run marathons again after nightmare health issue
Sally Maconochie had “everything that normally holds the pelvic organs in place ripped from the bone” during childbirth. This is why she hopes she may be able to run again.
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Never ignore the signs
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