So like everyone else, I have a bit of a story, that being said, I'm not sure where and who to turn to at the moment. I'm currently in China where the possibility of changing doctors is pretty much impossible since there is only 1 foreign doctor in the city. There are ''western'' standard hospitals (in a very large sense) with 'english speaking doctors' (generally the head of departement who doesn't leave his office) so going to a Chinese hospital (where they only made things worst the last time) doesn't feel like an actual option.**sorry for the details but I figured someone might of had this as well**In the past 2 weeks I've been getting what I think is bloody stools (extremly dark brown and black) as well as bloody mucus in my stool (the mucus being red-brownish) and vertigos. I'll be walking to school and feel like I'm going to pass out, or simply sitting in class, or even now, half lying-sitting in bed and just typing away. When I had a colonoscopy, they found I had swollen bowel to the point where it blocked the camera from going any further. This appeared to be a 'normal' IBS thing (at least that's what I was told). The swollen bowel results in extreme pain (like being stabbed). Has anyone ever had this happen to them? Should I be consulting just about now or wait till it just goes away because it's just another 'normal thing'? I can't afford to see the doctor at the moment, my only option being to ask my parents for money, which they'll give me but can't afford, so I'm trying to seek advice before going there. My current doctor is not a GI but he's consulted the best Chinese GI in town and had all my results pass through her before diagnosing me. I feel that any 'unsual symptoms' will get me transfered back home to a Canadian hospital, and concidering I'm in the middle of term, I'm hoping to not have to go there. So if anyone's experienced this, or you have comments, or well, anything at all, let me know as the vertigos seem to be more and more frequente and I'm a little freaked out...