Matt,
I'm really sorry to hear you've hit another "pass the parcel" job. It must be incredibly frustrating. When you are so ill the last thing you need it to be chasing around the NHS to do their jobs. When I relapsed I had to chase my therapy around between different parties with referrals and it just feels like there is no ownership at times with the NHS. I was lucky to drop on a nurse, who I suspect thought I was being dumped onto them knowing it wasn't the right pathway, who chasing people around and got me a result.
Sadly we do have to push doctors at times or they sit back. My parents have had that a few times and had to keep going to the GP until he/she rang elsewhere to push doctors at the other side as to what is going on. Hospitals just discharge us but the GP has to own the patient the rest of the time and I think they should be pushed to chase things up for us.
Is there any help from the NHS here? I guess it would mean raising a complaint though and I can completely understand how that might be just too much right now.
Given the situation with your weight you can understand the specialist wanting to rule out cancer but I live in hope this is only about ruling out because losing so much weight over a year and this going on so long makes me think you would be very ill. I know you feel like crap a lot but I just feel like you would be very seriously ill after 12 months if it's shedding the weight off you like that. It's just a guess based on the stories of others I've known who were very ill with cancer and without treatment they would have snowballed much more.
I hope that's not upsetting to hear? It just feels like a possibility that points elsewhere.
Don't be daft asking for help on here mate, you give to others and others will give back to you because of that.
Keep having a laugh with us on the lighter threads if it helps even a little bit.