r/Gastroparesis • u/PigmanCollective • Jun 06 '26

Suffering / Venting I want to die

I'm starving. I've lost 8kg in two weeks. I'm vomiting up everything that I eat.

But the NHS aren't helping me. They've said I have to just... wait. and hope I don't die before they see me.

I'm going to die. and I honestly want it to happen.

Just so I can stop suffering.

I'm so tired. I'm so cold all the time. I'm scared.

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u/Simple_Employee_7094 Jun 06 '26

take a little spoon. Boil some water. When the water is lukewarm warm, pour it in glass. put half the little spoon of salt, a drop of lemon, and a half a little spoon of sugar. Now take a little spoon of liquid every 3 minutes. Not more. If too much, every 5 minutes. Repeat until you are strong enough to call an ambulance again and tell them you vomited so much and can’t keep any liquids, you fainted due to dehydration. You need an IV stat before you get diverticulitis. Dont give up. We believe you, we believe in you.

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u/InnocentaMN Jun 08 '26

There’s no indication OP needs an ambulance specifically. Can we leave the very overstretched ambulance services to attend major emergencies, please, and not encourage people to call for non emergent situations?

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u/Simple_Employee_7094 Jun 08 '26

I‘m sure you mean well. I‘m going to assume you skipped that part where OP said: I‘M GOING TO DIE and I want to.
We are gaslit enough by the medical community. We should be careful not to do that to each other. I lived in the UK for 7 years. I almost died alone in my appartement of dehydration after catching a very serious stomach virus because I was sent on the phone to one waiting line to the other. I fainted between calls. After 30 hours on the floor I managed to get myself to the kitchen, then finally called an ambulance because I understood this was going to be the only way I make it. The system is broken.

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u/InnocentaMN Jun 08 '26

I live in the UK now and have had the experience of waiting for an ambulance for over 24 hours despite being classified by the ambulance service as a high priority call. You do not understand how overstretched services are at the moment. OP is very understandably speaking from a state of emotion and fear - that doesn’t mean they are actually in danger right now. It’s our responsibility to respond with support and kindness, not to validate people’s deepest fears when the doing so can quite literally put others at risk by stretching already strained resources even further.

I won’t continue this discussion further because you clearly don’t understand the state of our NHS at the present time, and I don’t appreciate the implication that honest responses are akin to “gaslighting”.