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i am writing this as a mother who has really doesnt know what to do for the best any more so bad now is our situation .my son has aspergers he is 24 a twin born 7 weeks early for as long as i remember he has suffered terrible somach pain no matter how often i took him to the doctor as a child they and the school always treated it as him wanting time off school.As he got older the pain increased along with diahorea often days of it until he had to leave college at 18 he became very thin as he ate little and lost what he did eat,we were told he had IBS given Buscopan that did nothing to help.Over the last week 6 years we have seen specialists seen our GP often he now has stomach ulcers and we,ve tried every acid tablet known to man he lives on strong pain killers and spends every single day and night in such horrific pain he rarely goes out as he needs to be near a toilet as a mother to have to watch your child in so much pain is awful and you expect the doctors to see how serious this is and to help yet they are always light hearted and juggle medication saying try this try these nothing works Today my son tells me ive had enough of being n pain every day i dont want this any more !!! we got some more tablets from a different doctor who just happened to mention what we always suspected "on your notes it says you have aspergers that you need mental health " obviously they all think its all in his head well they dont live this daily ! any one have any advice please im desperate

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  • GPs can access manuals with up-to-date details of medicines -used to be a book, more likely now to be a website. The GP shouldn't have made out a prescription without checking its availability, so sending you haring after a medicine that's no longer available sounds pretty close to negligence. Although I suppose with busy surgery lists these days they don't have much time in which to check.

    You can research medications yourself via NHS Choices website www.nhs.uk/.../default.aspx

    If he now has ulcers he is going to need appropriate medicines so I'm rather concerned about this idea of using natural remedies. Particularly I don't think an autism site is the right place to be advocating natural remedies, as the issues surrounding contributary effects of autism on the response of medicines would be no different for natural.

    Does the GP take autism into account?

    A lot of people have to take pills that reduce acid production. Not sure why it follows you cannot digest food if you take them, if the acid reduction was that complete it would be a bit doubtful - and all medicines have side effects.

    With ulcers he needs to get the right treatment. If your present GP cannot spare the time to check the medications prescribed, or take proper care, it is time to change GPs. Even if you have further to travel, for better treatment it would surely be worthwhile.

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  • GPs can access manuals with up-to-date details of medicines -used to be a book, more likely now to be a website. The GP shouldn't have made out a prescription without checking its availability, so sending you haring after a medicine that's no longer available sounds pretty close to negligence. Although I suppose with busy surgery lists these days they don't have much time in which to check.

    You can research medications yourself via NHS Choices website www.nhs.uk/.../default.aspx

    If he now has ulcers he is going to need appropriate medicines so I'm rather concerned about this idea of using natural remedies. Particularly I don't think an autism site is the right place to be advocating natural remedies, as the issues surrounding contributary effects of autism on the response of medicines would be no different for natural.

    Does the GP take autism into account?

    A lot of people have to take pills that reduce acid production. Not sure why it follows you cannot digest food if you take them, if the acid reduction was that complete it would be a bit doubtful - and all medicines have side effects.

    With ulcers he needs to get the right treatment. If your present GP cannot spare the time to check the medications prescribed, or take proper care, it is time to change GPs. Even if you have further to travel, for better treatment it would surely be worthwhile.

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