If you will tolerate me I am just going to have a little rant and ask for your sympathies and similar experiences.
In mid January I was admitted to hospital with severe HG (I'm now 24 weeks pregnant). Within days of being discharged after several days on a drip, I started experiencing severe pain in my right hand jaw.
I KNEW I'd knocked my jaw out of place. I'm not medically trained but I could feel it. I went to my GP who said nothing was wrong and then my NHS dentist who said there was nothing wrong with my teeth or jaw.
I've been lucky in that I've never had any tooth trouble. Not so much as a toothache in 28 years and maybe one or two shallow fillings. I've only ever seen an NHS dentist and thought nothing of it.
It is now 9 weeks later. I have seen 3 neurologists, 4 GPs and 1 maxo facial surgeon. I have spent a week in hospital with the worst pain I have ever experienced. I have lost weight, been pumped full of codeine and no one on the NHS has been able to find a problem that explains the pain I've been in, the fever I've had almost constantly or the general feeling of illness I've experienced. The best anyone could come up with was that they could pull out my wisdom teeth just to see if that helped
I finally, in pure desperation, visited a private dentist on Friday after my mum offered to pay. As I suspected I have knocked my TMJ joint out of place due to all the being sick and the relaxin (sp?) released due to the pregnancy.
As well as that I've got an absess on a tooth at the back near to one of my wisdom teeth. We paid for his consultation and diagnosis (£75) and took this back to the hospital. They said there was nothing they could do and to go back to my own dentist.
I went to my own NHS dentist and she said that she totally disagreed with this diagnosis and that the facial pain was still "unexplained" as nothing wrong with that tooth or my TMJ joint.
Still in mind boggling pain we went back to the private dentist and asked him to fix it, not caring what it costs. Lo and behold he's worked his magic today and I'm out of pain. I've got the brace on and the root filled on the rogue tooth and am on antibiotics.
For the first time in 9 weeks I feel human. I'm not in pain. I'm not knocking back painkillers.
It cost my mother 905 quid. 905 pounds!!!!!!!!
How fucking appalling is it that the NHS have not only failed to diagnose my problem but then reused to treat it? I'm an ardent Leftie and the first to defend the NHS big Jesus. I can't believe the utter incompetence I've suffered.
18 NHS medical professionals have looked in my mouth and at my jaw these past 9 weeks. Not one of them got it right or helped me. I feel very let down.
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The NHS and private dentistry- a rant
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somedizzywhore1804 · 17/03/2014 20:29
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