Gut & digestion
Your digestion has been a problem for a long time.
Read more →IBS & bloating
Bloated all the time, no matter what you eat.
Bloating is one of those symptoms people are told to live with. It gets attributed to a food, then another food, then stress, and the list of things to avoid grows while the bloating stays roughly where it was.
If you’ve already cut out a lot and it hasn’t settled, the food probably isn’t the whole story.
Recognise any of this?
You may be experiencing…
- A flat stomach in the morning and a distended one by evening
- Bloating that seems unrelated to what you ate
- Visible distension, not just a feeling
- Alternating constipation and looseness
- Urgency, or never feeling finished
- Pain or cramping that eases after a bowel motion
- Excessive wind
- Symptoms that flare in stressful weeks
You don’t need to fit neatly into a diagnostic box to deserve a proper investigation.
Where we start
What I investigate.
- Exactly when the bloating appears through the day, and what reliably makes it worse
- The full history of foods you’ve removed and what each removal achieved
- Bowel pattern in detail, over a typical week
- Antibiotic and gut-infection history
- Prior investigations, including endoscopy, colonoscopy and breath testing
- How you eat — pace, setting, timing — as well as what
- Stress load and sleep across the same period
- Everything currently being taken for the gut, and how long for
The crucial part
Why this often gets missed.
An IBS label describes the symptom pattern rather than accounting for it, which is why it can sit unchanged for years. The useful questions are usually about sequence: what came first, what came with it, and what was happening in your life at the time. Those answers don’t show up on a test.
I investigate the whole picture, not just the loudest symptom.
What happens next
A 45-minute consultation, one to one.
Online from anywhere in Australia, or in clinic at Willow & Saige in Warrnambool. The fee is $135, the same either way. There’s nothing to prepare beyond bringing your history, any previous results you have, and your questions.
Where something in your history warrants medical investigation, I’ll tell you and refer you back to your GP. This works alongside your existing care, not instead of it.
Often connected
These rarely turn up alone.
Fatigue & exhaustion
You’re exhausted, and nobody can tell you why.
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The symptoms are connected. Nobody has connected them.
Read more →Frequently asked
Common questions.
Can a naturopath help with IBS?
I can take a full history, look at your digestive symptoms in the context of everything else, and work from there. No promises about outcome. If anything in your history suggests a medical investigation is warranted, that’s what I’ll recommend.
Why am I bloated all the time, no matter what I eat?
That’s the question the consultation exists to investigate, and it isn’t one I can answer honestly from a web page — it depends entirely on your history, your timeline and what else is going on. What I can say is that when bloating persists despite extensive dietary restriction, the food is rarely the whole picture.
Do I need a colonoscopy first?
That’s a decision for your GP, not me. If your history includes anything that warrants medical investigation, I’ll tell you plainly and refer you back rather than work around it.
I’ve tried low FODMAP and it only partly worked.
That’s common, and it’s useful information rather than a failure. What it responded to, and what it didn’t, tells us something worth knowing.
How long is the first consultation?
Forty-five minutes, one to one with me, online or in clinic. The time is the point — this isn’t a picture you can take in a ten-minute appointment.
Ready to find out what’s really going on?
You don’t need to have all the answers before you book. That’s what the first consultation is for.