Page 6 | To find that going to the doctors doesn't resolve the issue

Mairzydotes · 2024-05-08T15:05:55+00:00

I've recently had an appointment and it's got me thinking that I always feel fobbed off ( I feel a bit fobbed off with this one too)and they never solve the issue. Once I had been referred for a scan , and when I spoke to a clinician for a follow up, I was told the nurse who referred me was working their notice and was referring everyone , and they wouldn't be doing anything further. The only time I've ever felt like my issues have been taken seriously, and dealt with was in pregnancy, when my pre-eclampsia showed up in my ante- natal check up. Some people make appointments and it seems like the health care professionals bend over backwards to help them and I feel dismissed. And these are about physical things , that can be seen . I dread to think what mental health would be like. Does anyone else find this happens to them?

DrawersOnTheDoors · 08/05/2024 17:21

I’m finding the GP refers me to totally random places. I have a prolapse but I can’t get a physio referral or a gynae one either apparently they won’t accept me so instead I got sent to the continence clinic since they were the only ones open to referral?! Thatwas a total waste of time for everyone and now I’m just left to get worse 🤷‍♀️.

ImCamembertTheBigCheese · 08/05/2024 17:17

I think it depends on the GP you have in some cases. One I went to see about pain told me I was just getting old! Not the case, I needed to see an osteopath so I pay privately to see one. I only knew who I needed because I told a colleague of the issues I was having and he gave me a name of someone he used.

FeralNun · 08/05/2024 17:16

It sounds absolutely shite, OP, I’m sorry.

It is nigh on impossible to see a GP where I am. I have developed a condition which is a possible early indicator of a stroke. NICE guidelines say GP must rule out urgently before doing a (much less urgent) referral. Nah - seen by a nurse, who after 2 months of chasing, has finally got me referred. That’s before any waitlist. Let’s hope I don’t drop dead in the meantime!

I’m sure I’m not alone in feeling utterly abandoned and generally uncared for when it comes to health - and I’m a reasonably savvy, articulate and strong willed person. It’s just so bloody EXHAUSTING, isn’t it?

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Mairzydotes · 08/05/2024 17:08

MsMuffinWalloper · 08/05/2024 16:15

Trying to get an appointment for 2 months only to get one on the app for mid June at a sister surgery a few miles away. I email to let my surgery know that I have done this and will bring up issues then as I can't get through to them (Dr phone numbers all have a recorded message saying the surgery is busy and they cannot take call, if an emergency call 999, then hangs up). I get an email back saying my appointment isn't even with a Dr but an Assistant, who won't be able to help with what I've outlined in my email. They suggest I make an appointment.

FFS!

I emailed back and said the very reason I am emailing is because for 2 months I have been calling their number every day at various times to be hung up on. I ask if there is a magic number or alternative way to create an appointment with a doctor as I had tried app and phone and these don't work.

Email reply " You can come in to the surgery and make an appointment face to face."

So why are we paying for the app? Why are we paying for their phone lines/phones/answerphones? I have to drive to my surgery (which has no free parking as it has merged with the hospital) go in and wait to make an appt for another day (god knows when), then do the whole drive back/pay for parking again? Yet they seem to think it needs a Dr, so relatively important.

Well done Tories.

I'm sure I got fobbed off at the doctors under the Labour government too.

Oh , the stupid app. It's actually easier to sit on hold than it is to type things in on the app, if you have other things to do .

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MsMuffinWalloper · 08/05/2024 16:15

Trying to get an appointment for 2 months only to get one on the app for mid June at a sister surgery a few miles away. I email to let my surgery know that I have done this and will bring up issues then as I can't get through to them (Dr phone numbers all have a recorded message saying the surgery is busy and they cannot take call, if an emergency call 999, then hangs up). I get an email back saying my appointment isn't even with a Dr but an Assistant, who won't be able to help with what I've outlined in my email. They suggest I make an appointment.

FFS!

I emailed back and said the very reason I am emailing is because for 2 months I have been calling their number every day at various times to be hung up on. I ask if there is a magic number or alternative way to create an appointment with a doctor as I had tried app and phone and these don't work.

Email reply " You can come in to the surgery and make an appointment face to face."

So why are we paying for the app? Why are we paying for their phone lines/phones/answerphones? I have to drive to my surgery (which has no free parking as it has merged with the hospital) go in and wait to make an appt for another day (god knows when), then do the whole drive back/pay for parking again? Yet they seem to think it needs a Dr, so relatively important.

Well done Tories.

Thatsajokeright · 08/05/2024 16:07

It took me 3 years to convince the GPs that I did, in fact, have a chronic illness that needed medication.

Every. Single. Time. I have been to the drs in my adult life I have been robbed off and found my own solutions.

It's shit.