I Know That This Might Seem

[emmie]

like a rant, it's not, however yours truly has come to a night of the long knives. Having spent best part of a year trying to get help for the pain i have been experiencing, i wonder do others have the same problem, unsympathetic doctors, shunted from one to the other, criticised for going to the surgery too often, without being able to say you know what this is ***.

[emmie]

s hite.

[anneasquith]

have you had a bad night emmie ?

[Prudie]

Emmie I sympathise with your plight although luckily I haven't had any personal long term problem that needs sorting as yet. I would say though, that I often see on this site recommendations to go to GPs at the drop of a hat and think I must live on another planet. At my surgery it usually takes the second week from calling to actually get an appointment and in the 5 times I've had to see a GP in the last 2 years I have seen a different one each time and 4 of them were locums. I have absolutely no confidence that my surgery has any understanding of my health history.I'm not really sure what areas these wonderful health services actually operate but it's certainly not in mine.

[sandyRoe]

Emmie, who would criticise you for going to the surgery too often? They're there to help people so continue to go as often as you like until you get the help you need.

[emmie]

more than bad, i was out much of yesterday, but every step is agony. pain in both hips areas, muscles, and stabbing pain in the back area, i have tried some of the pain meds most don't do a lot - i wanted a fix to the problems, not essentially a sticking plaster. These things sometimes take time i grant you, but last evening was the bloody pits.

[emmie]

for once in a long while, i cried and cried, it didn't help at all. wish it had

[Canary42]

Many GPs are the spawn of the devil, in the pay of the drug companies.

Cameron's NHS is focused on saving money, not lives.

[emmie]

i can't blame Cameron, he didn't cause this.

[Cloverjo]

I sympathise, emmie. My son has an ongoing problem that he is desparate to find the cause of, but the many GPs he has seen are not interested in helping him. One even said he will just have to live with it. Not much help when he was close to doing serious harm to himself at the time.

Is there a GP that is slightly more sympathetic than the others that you can see and beg him/ her to help you get to the bottom of your problem?

[emmie]

totally sympathise, been in this position, and more or less told will have to live with the pain, or pain management as its called. I just want to know the cause, i think it's one thing but docs don't seem to agree, and none sing from the same hymnsheet.

[CatGirl4]

It does make you wonder why you visit but,what else can you do?not surprising,is it,that a lady had been turned away for 7 months,she eventually was diagnosed with cervical cancer.

[emmie]

i have had problems in the past, some pretty awful, pancreatitis, surgery for teeth problems, but the longevity of this is dire.

[LazyGun]

Cannot really offer anything other than sympathy Emmie. Must be very dispiriting to live life in constant pain, and also not fully understanding why.

All I could advise is this - to go back to basics. Do you feel that your GP has been helpful to you or sympathetic? If not, change GP and explain why - either within the existing surgery or select another one. Do you feel your hospital consultants have let you down, or been incompetent, or unsympathetic? Report them to PALS.

It does sound to me though that you need some more constructive and sympthetic conversations over pain management.

[emmie]

i didn't have a good meeting with one person in pain management, but i am trying to get others involved. its like the kids game pass the parcel.

[chrissa1]

My sister has just been diagnosed with osteo-arthritis. She was given an MRI scan and she is having a new hip on 10th April.

Having had a double mastectomy, she pushed and pushed to find the cause as she was worried it was cancer. This was back at the end of Feb this year and, as I said, her op is on 10th April.

She was very impressed with her GP. Good luck and keep on at them.

[Greedyfly]

I did have this problem but I changed GPs and my C
current doctor is amazing and will do nothing but back me. I sympathise with you as I know what it's like going through life in pain. I hope you get sorted soon. My pain problem is also I diagnosed and is currently treated by injections now as I couldn't find a good balance with meds. I hope you get somewhere soon, it's such a drain being it that much pain. Have you tried Hypnotherapy? I was a firm unbeliever but I had Hypnotherapy for something else a few years ago and it really helped although it's not for everyone.