G.P's at my Surgery next to useless
I currently have three health conditions not being addressed.
Three different problems.
Spinal.
Neurological.
Possibly viral
Referrals to three different hospital departments at three different hospitals each 40+ miles from home.
All of whom have taken a total of 16 blood samples.
12 C:T scans.
9 MRI's
And consultations galore.
Some in person.
Some in clinics.
In recent times many via phone or video calls.
And not so much as an Aspirin dispensed throughout.
Yesterday evening I received a phone call from a duty Doctor at my Surgery apologising for the delay in getting the results of my tests.
all of which I had to do myself and return the results to the Surgery.
Including having to go to one drug company website and then using Google translate just to get some idea of how to take the test as the instruction on the packaging made no sense when read.
I was told during this phone call that until results were in and he could issue a defined antibiotic for the viral problem, he'd issue a generic one-off. Probably a jab that I could do at home just to relieve symptoms until he gets the results middle of next week.
Hoorah !
Finally something being done !
So this morning I go to collect what I thought would be painkillers and this jab only to discover (after having queued for 40 minutes) no jab. No painkillers....just something to settle my stomach; a heat pad....im assuming this is for the kidney area pain, and for some reason a box of sticking plasters. (Which im assuming is some sort of placebo for the neuralgia patches he said he'd issue)
Im done
Three different problems.
Spinal.
Neurological.
Possibly viral
Referrals to three different hospital departments at three different hospitals each 40+ miles from home.
All of whom have taken a total of 16 blood samples.
12 C:T scans.
9 MRI's
And consultations galore.
Some in person.
Some in clinics.
In recent times many via phone or video calls.
And not so much as an Aspirin dispensed throughout.
Yesterday evening I received a phone call from a duty Doctor at my Surgery apologising for the delay in getting the results of my tests.
all of which I had to do myself and return the results to the Surgery.
Including having to go to one drug company website and then using Google translate just to get some idea of how to take the test as the instruction on the packaging made no sense when read.
I was told during this phone call that until results were in and he could issue a defined antibiotic for the viral problem, he'd issue a generic one-off. Probably a jab that I could do at home just to relieve symptoms until he gets the results middle of next week.
Hoorah !
Finally something being done !
So this morning I go to collect what I thought would be painkillers and this jab only to discover (after having queued for 40 minutes) no jab. No painkillers....just something to settle my stomach; a heat pad....im assuming this is for the kidney area pain, and for some reason a box of sticking plasters. (Which im assuming is some sort of placebo for the neuralgia patches he said he'd issue)
Im done
56-60, M
