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Useless GP 's

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jacqui60919
jacqui60919

I have been in agony since February, had costochondritis with pains in ribs, went to GP never offered to check vitamin d,asked him to refer me, but he didn't know who to so I suggested rheumatologist! He then decided to check vitamin d. Never heard anything so off I went to the specialist. ( I had to go private) he found out straight away I had insufficient vitamin d levels and gave me 40000 units a day for 10 days, back to the doctors they rang me and prescribed 800 units a day, but then said take two tablets for a month.  I told the specialist snd he said it would take a long time to get well following doctors advise, anyway after taking high dose, felt great no pain whatsoever, now I'm on low dose pain us back.  I spoke to my doctor today and asked if I could have a blood test, she said no they don't do that and feeling better after taking the high dose is psychological!  I am so annoyed!  I rang the private hospital and have an appointment tomorrow, nhs or I should say my doctors are a complete waste of time!

 

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  • loretta89480
    loretta89480 jacqui60919

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    Yes today it seems Drs are a total waste of time. I have been in agony for years and was told I was imagining it. I am so annoyed now as I have complications and a great deal of pain. Dr refused to refer me to a specialist at NHS
    • jacqui60919
      jacqui60919 loretta89480

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      I think that is so annoying when they tell you 'it's all in your head', they probably have no idea what to do so fob you off.  I think it's all about their budget, my dad was having back pain and they gave him pain killers that took the pain away, when he went back for more they told him he couldn't have them as they are expensive and gave him cheaper ones that didn't work!
    • loretta89480
      loretta89480 jacqui60919

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      6 years ago I had to have an emergency operation to remove 3 huge blood clots in my artery. the main clot was in the sadle that broke up and I nearly lost my left leg. I had 2 massive strokes. For 3 years I was going to the dr once a month declaring I had a blood clot. I was told no I was imagining it. The operation was botched and the incisions bust open when I got home. Back at the hospital they packed the gaping holes in my thighs, put a dressing on and told me to go home and see my Dr. At no time did a district nurse come to check on me. I had to get to the surgery on my own steam. 2 months later the wounds healed but I have very bad nerve damage to the right leg and that hurts like hell. I was given a pain killer that is cheap and does not work. Now I have to put up with sore bones, easily breaking bones and the Drs couldn't give a damn. That is the crappy medical service we have in the UK
    • mini24680
      mini24680 loretta89480

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      I completely agree I'm so frustrated right now, I have lower back complications and sever pain that travels down to my right leg and want them to do a scan MRI or CT but no they won't do it. Been to the GP countless times and the one last time I went before I moved both house and practice I was so frustrated and said look I need to see a specialist and he was annoyed but it's my health this ain't a game, I don't want it to become so bad that I can't walk, although the pain has been at this stage, and so at the new practice I asked if I've been referred just to make sure 'cause it's been weeks. Well had to phone the rheuatology department and they kept saying this is not the right number and kept giving me wrong numbers. Phoned ARI and they werren't much help. So I got hold of my last letter from the rheumatology dep. I had when I went there a couple monthsor years ago and phoned them. No one answered. Phoned out patient and finally someone that helped and said you hadn't been referred. AGAIN. I'm so done with the NHS it's been years like this and saying it's all in my head. Yeah right, you're not the ones suffering each day with this horrible pain that makes you incapable of doing anything and the suffering and frustration in your parents eyes to see me like this and no one to help. I also lost partially my vision on my right eye because I'm pretty sure it's Temporal Arteritis or also called G.C.A. and Prednisolone helped when they gave to me on the ER for an asthma attack and that kinda helped the tenderness, pain, and severe headache as well.Now I ask what the heck is going on with the GP's? I'm having no luck with anyone.I'm sorry but I really want to complain about all of this and see what they have to say. In Portugal nothing is like this. Disappointed with the NHS. Need scans of my back and brain but fobbed off or dismissed or smt like that. I had enough.

       

  • homo_dieticus
    homo_dieticus jacqui60919

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    Well, off course some doctors are just plain arrogent. Perhaps you needed to be more deferential. I think that this a big problem and that it contaminates the NHS. To be fair, doctors are under daily pressure to reduce costs. Trouble is that this can affect there clinical judgement. Don't expect it to get any better with the NHS under the cosh.
  • Jaybelle
    Jaybelle jacqui60919

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    Sorry you feel so wretched Jacqui.

    Like you, I paid a private rheumatologist, but I didn't even get a check of my vitamin D and so went six years with a misdiagnosis of fibromyalgia while my skeleton continued to crumble. 

    I really don't think it's about the NHS, but about new developments in medicine. No one has been checking vitamin D until very recently, because doctors didn't know there was an issue with it until the tireless work of Professor Holick finally got through to the medical establishment.

    Even now, although GPs are at last being told by their health authorities to test for vitamin D deficiency, they have very little understanding of just how debilitating the osteomalacia caused by acute deficiency can be. It's new to them - think of how many conditions they have to be alert to, in only 10 minutes per patient. There is a chronic shortage of GPs and they are over-worked by any measure. Although I am resentful of the 'it's all in your mind' attitude of some I have seen over the past ten years, they can only go on what they've got - and they've only just got the whole vitamin D thing.

    I think it is likely that we'll all just have to become as well informed as we can and help our doctors out until they 'get' it. 

    Stay strong. We're lucky; vitamin D in high doses is freely available from a major online retailer. 

    Sharing your frustration and sending all best wishes.

    :-)

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