sometimes the doctors need a kick up the backside

[leeandjoanne]

what is the matter with doctors these days ! been bleeding for a good 18mths loosing big blobs , been to the hospital had my ovaries scanned , on these tablets them tablets . And 18mths down the line still no further forward . just felt the biggest blob ever fall out of me on the bathroom floor couldnt even get to the toilet on time . sent home fom work today flooded right through only there an hour and all i had to do was put my hand on the outside of my trousers and it was covered in blood . why cant the doctors get me to the hospital put me asleep and have a look then we may have some answers instead of wasting my money on all these precriptions for pills that are just trying to stop the bleeding which isnt helping we need to know where its coming from and why ! but what makesme mad genuine ppl like us with problems have to wait year but if a druggie went to the doctor and said he wanted to go rehab he'd proberly go that day !

[josie48]

Why dont you go to a+e? they would have to help you then lee.

[figure]

Your situation sounds severe. I don't understand why your GP have not requested that you be admitted ASAP. You could become anaemic and even bleed to your death.

My neighbour had a similar situation. She was suffering from uterine fibroid tumours but was scared to have the fibroids surgically removed. She bled the same as you are describing. Two weeks ago she passes the tumour like a miscarriage. It just fell right out of her. Eventually she ended up in the hospital and stayed for a week. She is up back to normal now.

Hope you get the necessary help for your situation and you get better soon. All the best to good health. xx

[weeal]

that's extreme ! you could become anaemic with blood loss like that, yep i say go to A & E too, you might have to wait but what the heck its been 18 months already

GO

[leeandjoanne]

there is one problem though which my doctors knowabout she tried doing this and that and gave me a diazpam tablets to relax my muscles and that didnt even work i just tense too much all the time and i need to be asleep for anything they do . they gynae says theres no problem and put me back to the docotrs but itsnot normal and i dont want to be fobbed off any more . itook a blob to the docotrs today and he didnt seem that bothered and threw it out

[josie48]

Please pluck up the courage to go to A+E lee. Everyone gets nervous ( me included) but its for your own good to go. Is there someone who can go with you? You need to go as you dont seem to be getting anywhere with your gp!

[josie48]

I meant to say there's bound to be a problem of some sort for you to be bleeding so heavily. Plus there's the loss of iron as mentioned. Now GO:-))

[MrXLA]

Hi leeandjoanne sound like you definately need some form of definitive investigation, diagnosis and treatment planning however I'm unsure what benefit you would get from attending A&E (unless of course you are suffering acute blood loss this minute in which case there's an obvious need to attend there!!)
Have you requested a second oppinion from another GP?

[shaneystar2]

Go back to your GP , insist he refers you to a gynaecologist and don''t take no for an answer . You have the right to see a specialist .
If he still tries to fob you off ask to see another doctor in the practice or the practice nurse .
I can sympathize with you enormously because this happened to me many years ago . I had a doctor at the time who said it was "one of those things and I would have to put up with it ".
Luckily when I went for appointment about it I saw a different partner who was quite shocked at the state I was in ...six weeks later I had a hysterectomy because I had massive fibroids !
You may not need anything so drastic ..perhaps just a D&C but you can't walk about like that .Go in there and be firm .
Take care ..hope you soon get it sorted out ..

[frogetta]

I agree with the last post- this is NOT a job for A and E- they will NOT be able to speed up you being investigated/operated on. they are for ACCIDENTS or EMERGENCIES. A and E is staffed by general doctors NOT specialists. I agree this is a horrid problem you have- but it doesnt fit with either of the A and E criteria- you NEED to get your GP to get you a rapid out patient review by a gynaecologist.

[shaneystar2]

Sorry leeandjoanne I didn't realise you had already seen a gynaecologist..nevertheless something is not right somewhere ..did they not even suggest a D&C ? Whilst they do that they can have a look to see if there is anything else wrong .
This is usually the first thing they will do with someone suffering heavy bleeding like this if other medication doesn't work .

[frogetta]

I have just reread you initial post and feel the need to comment on your last sentence. Firstly there is a great shortage of drug/alcohol rehab places and they would almost certainly NOT get sorted immediately. Secondly you are (I assume) NOT a health care professional, and therefore NOT in the position to pass judgement on other peoples medical needs.
I understand you are frustrated, but please try to avoid passing moral and/or medical priorities on others. Your doctor is there to treat each patients as an individual, and assesses everyone- including you- on clinical need.

[weeal]

frogetta, Ive stood and watched junkies being taken in front of people, including myself, for their self-inflicted illness

its not right

[Ice.Maiden]

Leeandjoanne's doesn't sound very good! how old are you if you don't mind me asking, hun?

[frogetta]

I understand how you feel- but if there (albeit self inflicted) condition is going to kill them soon, and your is a sprained ankle- which everyone is ALWAYS convinced in broken- then the junkie comes first everytime.
And when we come to discussing self inflicted what about the overweight patinet who gets diabetes/heart attack/stroke, the smoker with asthma/ copd, lung cancer, the kid playing on his bike who gets a broken wrist, the amateur footballer who lunged for a tackle and has broken his foot?... all self inflicted I feel.
I for one feel I am far from perfect, so would not like to pass judgement values on others.... infact I would like to help and encourage 'junkies' to get help for rehab as soon as they ask for it- the asking is a big step.
by the by I have never taken drugs....

[frogetta]

you need to allow the nurses and doctor to use there expertise to see patients in order of clinical need

[shaneystar2]

Sorry frogetta but if you were walking around in that sitiuation you would feel like blasting someone ..it's not pleasant when you have continual flooding week in week out and what look like great lumps of liver and clots of blood falling away from you and no one seems to be able to do anything about it when in fact they can .
It's debilitating ,embarassing and very unpleasant .

[frogetta]

I understand and ACCEPT that it is horrid- I simply dont understand exactly what you want an emergency department to do about it?. Or why people with 'selfinflicted' conditions got blamed for the delay in this poor ladies situation.

[leeandjoanne]

ok then the other night we had to go to A and E Because my hubby had hurt his footplaying footabll we had to wait 3 and a half hours in the meantime of sitting in the waiting room one of our exeter city footballers came in waited in the room for about 20 mins and got called in we never saw him again ? everyone else who was called had to go and wait back in the room till someone else called for us . Because this footballer was asemi profasional he obviously got treated first ! it stinks ! and Im SRRY BUT I WILL COMMENT ON WAT I WANT TO SAY i was just using that about a druggie as a prime example . I am 27 with no kids . So you think this is worng aswell the other night we were going to kfc and there was a homeless man outside begging asking us for money so my husband said no sorry get a job like we have to which is true us workers get nothing no help bills keep going up our wages dont why shud we help them . we have druggies acrossthe way from us that tend to break into peoples homes up this way except ours cause we live in a top floor flat there windows get smashed nearly every other day but they ring the council and good ole them they come out and board them up !! but they only get smashed as they proberly owe some money and thats whay our council tax is so high let the ******* freeze then maybe it wont happen again ! sorry but you got me going now on examplaes of things !!! im still bleeding by the way and have a gp appointment on thursday !

[josie48]

I thought A+E would have been a good idea as maybe leeandjoanne would have been transferred to a gyno ward.