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I know you may mean well, but to me this exemplifies just about everything that is the core "problem" with the NHS - in a nutshell, ignore the big picture and throw drugs at the minor issues. To be blunt, after a month of being knocked about from pillar to post from one "medical professional" to another, especially after having been unwell for some weeks prior, and yet to be not one bit wiser as to what the the problem is, nor what or when, if anything is likely to be done about it. It would come as a surprise to me that Rex wasn't anxious and/or frustrated in the circumstances. Were it me, I'd add a whole slew of other things to the list, such as irritated, annoyed, angry, bitter..... Not to put too fine a point on it, were something actually be begun to be done to treat and hopefully resolve Rex's problem, I'm sure enough to put money on it, that any anxiety/frustration he feels would rapidly vanish by itself as a result.Throwing more and more drugs at a patient so they "feel as normal as possible" while failing to address the underlying root cause, is as sane as switching your car engine off and coasting down each hill to prevent the engine overheating from lack of coolant for as long as possible, instead of just topping it up - the day will come when you run out of hills to coast down when you seize your engine trying to make it to the next one. Rex, are you losing weight? I'm pretty sure you don't want to hear it, and no doubt have already thought of it, but after over a month of only very limited eating and drinking you have have to be making inroads in to your body's reserves to maintain yourself, which, I'm sure you don't need to be told is a situation of very finite duration. I don't know how to get through to NHS people so that they pay attention, listen, understand and believe what their patients tell them, rather than heading away off on some irrelevant tangent of their own. I've tried to do so more times than I care to think about, and have failed the same number of times, but unless you do while you are strong enough to fight with them, you have no chance should your condition take you to a weaker state. Letting things slide is not really a luxury you have for much longer I would speculate, the stronger you are when you receive whatever treatment you may require, the more rapid and full your recovery is likely to be. The more depleted your body reserves become, the poorer your prognosis.