Does the Buck stop here ??

ask for a spirometry test.

chest x-rays have their limitations but they can still show a lot.

I'd relax and not let my imagination run wild at this moment in time. I'm assuming that you are otherwise healthy.

Chest x-rays show up Lines and scars. (products of old infections or inhaled material)They are not uncommon and are usually harmless.

Unfortunately consultants and doctors don't second guess our natural pessimism about ourselves vis a vis health. So they don't go in for reassurance in a big way. They are too busy. The sentiment seems to be with the medical profession, - "if I'm not all that worried about the x-ray, that's what matters, I'm the professional." The fact you may be stewing over the matter and ruing your life, "suspecting" something is going on with your body, is not high up their priorities. If you looked at their priority list objectively it would look truly daunting . They make mistakes of course but they are truly amazing people.

So write down exactly what it is that is frightening you. Set out some bullet points about what needs clarified and go to your general practioner and get the relevant testing done.

At the moment there will be no end to your sense of limbo you are in until you get into action mode, and ask the right clear questions of the right people.

I respect doctors, still some of them have their limitations, i feel like they graduate but they no longer research or keep learning much from their patients,because as you say they are too busy making diagnostics and prescribing drugs with terrible side effects, still the knowledge of medicine comes from symptoms and patients though history and enlightened people who tried to find a way to cure and heal with nature as the old latin proverb says "medicus curat, natura sanat"

my xrays look fine no matter the symptoms only one doctor told me its looks like i had copd and i showed him a sputum and he told me it was a bronchiectasia, he told me to have a spiromety test wich i barely finishined and the neumologist just prescribed me like if i was an asmathic and gave me an ansiolitic victan (Ethyl loflazepate) which i found myself very bad, for a few days i felt my breathing was getting even worse, i research online side effects and one of them turned to be respiratory insuficency severe and even old people dying from axphixia, i was so angry because thats my problem and this was making it worse, i stop taking the medication and i feel much better, its important to follow your intuition and listen to your body.

I want to have an scan too because they now think im a hipocondriatic, so thats how we are now in forums and on the internet researching and trying to heal our symtoms, so many people finding answers on alternative medicine like ayurvedic,biomagnetism and old methods from all regions, we need to be open and i hope doctors do the same. i pass from being a healthy 29 person to a 69 old man from one day to another, so im not giving up.

Also the quality of life worldwide is getting worse, mossanto is on our tables without knowing, we have chemtrails spraying all kinds of chemicals on the sky and the co2 on the atmosphere is increasing, so we need to relax and adapt to this era. Wish you well

 

Hi. Ridiculous. Why did you wait 3 months ?  Your health is your responsibility, you must be more aggressive and stick up for yourself. Try again to sort yourself out - - - GOOD LUCK.

Hi Jacqueline.

If you are convinced that the surgeons have made genuine and serious mistakes, you owe it to yourself and others to seek redress. Get a copy of the particular hospital's guidelines and compare what their policy says should have been a reasonable person's expectation of their hosital experience , and what your actual experience was.

I don't think doctors are amazing if they are negligient but it has been my experience that most are empathetic and intend to optimise their skills in helping people. If they have not been in your case, then I can only commiserate with you and hope you get a diagnoisis that meets your satisfaction, But you will only get this if you pursue the matter.

What I was trying to get across in my post was that, all things being equal, if the hospital and your gp weren't worried then you probably shouldn't be.

But not of course to ignore your natural anxiety over the unanswered question you are harbouring. You are right. you deserve to know as fully as medical technology can do what is going on with your body.

All the best.

Hi Lazerus

I agree with your point about doctors keeping up with latest medical technology. One of the problems they have is filling in endless reports to meet funding criteria. If a lot of the red tape was cut away that might help a lot.

I remember as an 18 year old going to hospital for a sports injury, there was about six nurses to each double ward.

Now you are lucky if you have one, with a couple of agency auxilliaries in tow. They should ban nursing auxilliaries and stop gap hiring of doctors whose credentials are often only half checked. This would help the continuity of monitoring patients they actually know.

The system is to blame as i see it, there is no seamless join between entry to the hospital and coming out the hospital after treatment. What's needed is an old fashioned matron to champion your cause and demand the best out the doctors. At the moment there is no counterbalance to the confusion of being handed onto one consultant after another - often way across the hospital campus in seperate units, or worse, being despatched to different hospital.

This specialisation of task, due to the demands of improving technology, is a good thing and a bad thing in this respect. It need not be a bad thing if there was one champion or matron being given the direct responsibility for each patient's outcome.

hi jacqueline

I'm in scotland

There is a process within the hospital system for expressing concerns regarding your treatment. Please refer to the hospital guidelines.

The buck stops with both the patient and the system as I see it.

You have to exhaust the hospital process and give them the opportunity to own the "buck". Have you done this.

If you have not done this yet, then the buck stops with you until you do.

The system can't redress what it doesn't know is faulty.

it's maybe me