Waiting For The Operation And Need It Now !!

I would go to your GP (if better than mine) then turn up at A&E they can't do much but it gets it on your records which may help getting your operation moved forward.  Reading many posts here i'm not sure i would hold out much hope though. Sorry.

When did you get diagnosed?

Hi Linda, I remember the feeling well. You could ring up the surgeon's secretary and see if she knows or can point you in the right direction. I've found they are quite helpful as long as you keep calm.

Definately see your gp but  go to a&e if the pain gets unbearable as they'll be able to monitor your bloods and check that you haven't got an infection as they'll do it sooner if that happens.

Its a horrid waiting game I know, I had to wait an extra month for mine as my surgeon wasn't around for a month so it put me back. I found it easier to cope with once I'd got a date.

Let me know how you get on. Take care x

I can't say I agree with Katherine.as much as I should be able to I can't.

but I agree with Matt whole heartedly.

as I went to a & e many many times in agony and they took bloods every time my white blood cell count was elevated from 13 then 15 then 19 the 23 but because I never had a temp all the done was offer me morphine every time of which I declined every time.

they wouldn't even give me a poxy ultrasound even when I was begging them the useless arseholes of the n no h hope s services

of a 3rd world health service we've all like fools succumbed to and payed our national insurance and their mortgages.

then I paid for an ultrasound well many in fact only £100 privately so around £20 cost to the NHS I should imagine,

but your life Linda is ant worth spending £20 pound on as far as they are concerned on no that's money better spent on some bleach so the NHS staff can nick it.

anyway then when I went and showed them at a & e my ultrasound report of chronic choletistis excuse spelling of the big medical world names they give things just to confuse us of course.

with significant inflammation and a 2.3cm stone blocking the cystic duct indicating gallbladder infection they just reply yr very organised!!

indeed I am.

its a shame our crappy NHS is not.

they still sent me away every time refusing to ct scan or ultrasound me .

why ? 

'Well as far as I'm concerned ,and I'm entitled to my opinion so I'll have it here .

becouse their are doing the same as sadam Husain ethnic cleansing and committing manslaugter.

nice guidelines indicate that with the condition I had and produced my evidence along with high white blood cell count ,that I should have been in on intravenous antibiotics and intravenous fluids and this happened to many times over the 3 years.

same at my go surgery also .

and these are the very people we pay to look after us !!

im not a doctor , 

'why should I be telling them what they should be doing and telling them nice guidelines etc 

thats what they get paid for not me.

anyway I ended up hours from death with an infected and full of puss gangrenous gallbladder thanks to the unskilled uncaring Heath service we have .

and I couldn't even pay my gp to give me a referral for a private ct scan that I was paying for as she refused me !

so drove around Harley street for 2 days near dead in agony like a nutcase begged every private gp their to give me a referral for a ct scan managed to find one who liked cash ,got it had the ct scan an hour later in opp privately 3 hours later as the surgeon I took the ct scan report to told me I was hours to days from death 💀 

'and he will operate now. He even had to hold up off a liver transplant he was about to do as I was more urgent!

thats my experience of the NHS !

they don't mind killing you I'm afraid to say.

so clearly yr being treated like a fool as was I Linda.

so I suggest you get a private ct scan done right away then  ct done and pay to save your own life as they don't look like they want to Linda,

sorry it's so scary I know.

im now recovering I hope !

and if I do fully recover , I have a new mission in life to sue them and take it as very far as I can and make it the Bain of my life and I will be if I live.

if it's got that bad and they will not help you ,I suggest you do something about it yourself.

where are you anyway ?

The GP can’t really hurry things along. I would suggest you ring the Consultant’s Secretary to explain your symptoms and see where you are on the list, and also to ask if you can go on a cancellation list. Then just keep ringing and asking , therenwill be an Appointments number you can get. If you are in extreme pain the I would go to A&E. The waiting game is awful, but there will be light at the end of the tunnel! Your symptoms sound very much like mine were. I couldn’t eat anything without pain, nausea, and ridiculous bloating (I looked about six-eight months pregnant!), and this just got increasingly worse.