u/marge111

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No diagnosis but need to prove to employer?

I have been struggling with diarrhoea since 2020, all I have ever been told is they believe it could be IBS I have no formal diagnosis, zero that I could show my employer. Back in 2020 it was so bad I was house bound pretty much ate just crackers, toast and soup for so long woke up everyday in so much pain I felt like I was going to die every morning. It continued this way until 3 years later when it felt like miraculously things were improving( I was having a lot of therapy at this time but I feel like things just coincidentally calmed down, I know it sounds insane but I genuinely think it was just luck that things got better ,the therapy was not great).Anyway I managed to get a job and I’d been doing ok for a long time but fast forward to now where things have gotten pretty bad again. I can’t eat at work anymore if I eat a single thing I end up with diarrhoea so bad I have to go home, no matter what I eat. The only chance I get to eat a substantial meal is the evening since it allows me plenty of time to shit. Now my employer is threatening to move people onto night shifts which would take away my only opportunity to eat because of my stomach but I have zero absolutely zero proof of anything. I am genuinely scared what that could do to my health but unless I can prove anything I have no chance but I don’t even know how to go about it. My GP surgery just gives me blood tests and gets me to do a stool sample every time I go complaining of how bad things are and nothing ever comes back (other than most recently vitamin d deficiency and blood count being abnormal but expected which was never explained) and they sort of just go well there’s nothing to be alarmed about and that’s it. What can I do? (I’m the UK).

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u/marge111 — 2 days ago