can anyone recommend a good quality gastroenterologist in brisbane? or possibly another form of specialist who deals with serious digestion issues and such (i don't know if there are others besides gastroenterologists..?)

can't suggest any doctors but I can suggest All Bran for breakfast... Keeps things 'moving'.

judging by the other threads lately plenty of people willing to explore your bowels here

Dr Andrew Lee

http://www.holyspiritnorthside.org.au/index.asp?page=vmod&dcode=LEEAN&facility=hsn

^ my private (as in, not public health care) Gastroenterologist, mind you I only go to see him when I can't get an immediate appointment at the RBH level 9 gasto unit
he's $170 a pop, you get some of it back with private medical and medicare I believe

You need a referral from a GP to go to the RBH gastro unit

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any naturopath will put you on the right track. the entire school of naturopathy revolves around the gut as the centre of all wellness.

profke in cleveland is a gut ninja.

any naturopath will put you on the right track. the entire school of naturopathy revolves around the gut as the centre of all wellness.

Dont stop there. Goto a Psychic too.

Were you recommended to go by a GP ?
If not you could try some Yakult.
That stuff is magical for gut problems.

oh yeah pump yourself full of toxic drugs which big pharma give the GPs kickbacks on. great idea.

Dr Rodericks at Ballow Chambers on Wickham Terrace.

there must be fluoride or recycled water in the system already. Everyone panic it's the end of days

Is infi really this retarded? Lately I haven't been able to distinguish his real retarded posts from his fake ones.

oh yeah pump yourself full of toxic drugs which big pharma give the GPs kickbacks on. great idea.

The same drugs that have undergone years of extensive testing and proven that they have better ability to deal with the problem then the next best thing. You'd be silly to ignore such medication.

no one trusts the financial adviser that gets kick backs from super funds but for some strange reason we like to trust doctors that get free holidays amd other goodies from big pharma to promote their drugs.

"Just ask you doctor." I love those ads.

The naturopathy course/structure/association is far too weak to demand any sort of universal respect amongst the general public. I've had a few friends that have studied it and a basic applied science degree is more thorough and demanding then what these full fee paying institutions are churning out.

There's definitely some really good natuopaths out there, but they're the ones that are improving their skills and knowledge consciously. The majority of them are douches that plonked down $20k to a private institution and have basic health knowledge and a silly ego to go along with it.

I'll take a real doctor anyday if it was a blind decision, the education is just better.

gastroenterologists deal with liver/spleen/kidneys/stomach etc

theres f*** all a natropath can do for you if you've got hepatitis or PBC (Primary Biliary Cirrhosis), kidney disease etc

also hepatitis does not have to be sexually contracted or via needles etc, its just a generic name for any disease which attacks your liver

I'll take a real doctor anyday if it was a blind decision, the education is just better

even tho 'real' doctors are taught to make medicines so that ppl can live with their diseases.

Ain't no money for the doctors in the cure

even tho 'real' doctors are taught to make medicines so that ppl can live with their diseases.

Ain't no money for the doctors in the cure

yes, this is definately the case

Is infi really this retarded? Lately I haven't been able to distinguish his real retarded posts from his fake ones.

I don't think he can either.

I've given up on infi, too far gone.

So you seriously think that we need guns because if there was a major civil disturbance and everyone was armed with lethal weapons it would make it a better situation AND that doctors aren't there to help us! They will jeopordise our health by prescribing inappropriate medications to make a few extra bucks!

f*** man you and smashcrab should get a room.

infi = new hunter?

I am being serious here. He is like bizarro hunter or something.

dont forget the whole john howard thing also

cool. thanks for the suggestions spidz, tequila, cjay

oh yeah pump yourself full of toxic drugs which big pharma give the GPs kickbacks on. great idea.

Mmm, yes, GPs do base their clinical decisions on, and make the majority of their money from, pharmaceutical companies. d*******.

By the way, when a drug company rep provides me with a soggy salad wrap for lunch, AND unlimited company pens, PLUS if I am REALLY lucky, a laser pointer, I will ALWAYS choose to prescribe their medication over other more effective, less dangerous medications. That's just the way I roll.

Ain't no money for the doctors in the cure

This is bulls*** and you people have no idea what you're talking about. I bet someone is going to spout "why we haven't found a cure for anything recently!" thinking they are smart.

even tho 'real' doctors are taught to make medicines so that ppl can live with their diseases

SHHHHH QUIET!!! We don't want people to know that we spend all our time actually trying to make people LIVE WITH THEIR DISEASE?!?!?!?!?!?111111

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The stupidity in this thread hurts my brain.

There is some truth to the power of big pharma.

Low Dose Naltrexone is a drug that is trivially cheap to produce. There have been a lot of anecdotal claims (sometimes backed by doctors) of its efficacy in the treatment of diseases like Multiple Sclerosis.

There is no money in it as a treatment though, so there is little to no funding for proper studies into it. Big Pharma funds almost all the studies that take place for new drug therapies.

That's not to say that there is a big conspiracy stretching to the GP to prescribe unnecessary medicine; just that its not in the commercial interest of pharmaceutical companies to pursue therapies that don't realise profits. This should be a no-brainer when you think about it, but lots of people get very upset about it.

Governments can't (and shouldn't) rely on commercial pharmaceutical companies to do all the heavy lifting for disease treatment R&D.

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Governments can't (and shouldn't) rely on commercial pharmaceutical companies to do all the heavy lifting for disease treatment R&D.

Agree, they should be funding the s*** out of universities and the results should be made freely available. If big pharma had to compete with unis for patents it'd make the playing field really interesting. Maybe this happens already, no idea?

I loved that episode of The Hollowmen where big pharma invites the bureaucrats to talk about their new drug they needed funding and all big pharma was interested in doing was giving the govies free s*** and feeding them seafood dinners and piss.

Good ol' big pharma... profit is not the objective, it's healing people!

easy tiger, that was just a FICTIONAL tv show (no doubt based on a lot of fact)

does art imitate life, or life imitate art?

Whoa, that was deep.

infi I think it is time you stop posting here mate you are a f***ing embarrassment.

fpot if you think you have some sort of monopoly on wisdom i've got news for you pal: you don't, you're just a stupid c***.

So you seriously think that we need guns because if there was a major civil disturbance and everyone was armed with lethal weapons it would make it a better situation AND that doctors aren't there to help us! They will jeopordise our health by prescribing inappropriate medications to make a few extra bucks!

f*** man you and smashcrab should get a room.

infi: you are the worst poster on qgl

fpot: font of all stupidity

D'awwww did infi get hurt by the big man with the big post count?

Come here baby I'll make everything better.

Whatever man. What have I ever said that even compares to the stupidity I just quoted up there? Nothing. You are stupid.

hahaha yep, really badly~!

hey giys I went to the doctor with an earache and the doctor gave me rat poison and said it would make me better and then he ran out of the room with a big sack with a dollar sign on it and then a large civil disturbance occured and everyone started randomly shooting eachother with guns do you think this is the best outcome?

We have a winner in this stupid-off:

http://homepage.powerup.com.au/~boldajis/images/if.png

Everyone already knew that.

Whatever man. What have I ever said that even compares to the stupidity I just quoted up there? Nothing. You are stupid.

"someone get me a bag of chips" lololololol

my forum mummy and daddy are fighting, who am i going to live with?

"someone get me a bag of chips" lololololol

This is actually pretty funny.

Yeah, Karen something out of the Mater at South Brisbane, will get the last name...

Nat's: Have you been able to see a gastro specialist yet?

I have a list of doctors you can talk to who may be able to shed some light on whatever you're going through. I'm not entirely sure what you're up against, but I've never been the same since I fought off 4 boughts of food poisioning whilst I was in asia at the end of 2006. I came back in January of 2007 and my health slowly declined until I hit rock bottom in about May of 2007. I took 8 months off work because I just couldn't get through a normal day. Ever since then I've been to a stack of doctors, specialists, naturopath's and quack's to figure out what is going on and none have yet been able to find a solution to my situation.

Either way I have a list of specialists who might be able to help you out.

I'll find their cards when I get home and stick up some contact details for them.

they dont sound like they have been overly helpful to you

Personally I don't have much faith in doctors.

Most of them just match symptoms to clinically proven diseases / issues and try and give you a magic pill of some kind to mask the symptoms without every really addressing the underlying issues. Most doctors don't seem to want to know why those symptoms are being caused.

And if you're subclinical (they don't see symptoms they recognise and can match to a disease / disorder) then they just pass you around from specialist to specialist or try and tell you that it's all in your head or that you're depressed.

I guess thats why alternative medicine is so big these days...
It'd be nice if both camps of alternative and allopathic medice all worked together in a synergistic fashion for the benefit of human kind.

dead right wolfieee - u need pharmaceutical drugs to treat serious diseases, no doubt, but to facilitate the healing process over the longer-term, (which can only arise from within the body and cannot be forced to happen... well yes u can use steroids they have side-effects...) more milder forms of medicine, and other techniques including exercise, using food as medicine, certain well-being therapies that help the body relax and the brain slip into meditative theta wave patterns, all can play a role in gently nurturing the human organism into health.

Nobody should bag out Dr.s because they are smart f***ers

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