Digestive Discomfort

What you may experience

• Bloating after meals
• Irregular bowel habit
• Acidity or reflux
• Heaviness and lethargy after eating

Lifestyle factors that may contribute

These are common contributors, not a diagnosis. Which apply to you — and whether something else is going on — is what the assessment establishes.

• Eating at irregular times
• Insufficient fibre and water
• Eating quickly or while working
• Stress affecting gut motility
• Late dinners

When an assessment helps

Most people manage this on their own for a long time before asking anyone. An assessment is worth booking when any of these are true.

• It has lasted more than a few weeks, or keeps returning
• It is changing what you do — how you sit, sleep, work or exercise
• You have tried the obvious things and they have not held
• You are not sure whether it is serious, and would rather someone looked

An assessment is not a commitment to treatment. If we cannot help, we say so and you pay for the assessment only.

How we approach it

We correct the eating pattern first, use external therapies for local comfort, and address the stress component — because in most cases the three are connected.