Doctor lying on report..

Oh dear poor doctor. Just get a second opinion. Threatening a complaint isn't going to make him change his professional assessment of you.

Wtf do you mean? Your post reads as though you don't believe the OP. If that's what you are getting at then say so, or better, report.

There have been numerous examples of doctor incompetence, of people who aren't qualified passing themselves off as doctors and of sociopaths who have no interest in helping patients working in the profession.

You have a really pronounced curvature and I wonder if your pain is from spinal nerve compression. Perhaps you have already had spinal xray/ scan but I don't think you have mentioned it.

OP you need not to be so combative here.
The surgeon had nothing to gain by ‘lying’ . Either the examination findings were different when them saw you or your notes were mixed up with someone elses . These things do happen.
Go and talk to the doctor, be reasonable and you are far more likely to get help.
Physio’s can be excellent diagnosticians - different people within a service .

Have they looked at your spine OP?

All replies here are anecdotal.
No one knows what is wrong with her.

You sound like a drama llama - just see a different doctor for another opinion;

you don't know for sure what her medical issue is @StrawberryJamisBest and although you are trying to be helpful, you can't know what she feels, knows using anecdotal information regarding your brother.

@StrawberryJamisBest -the point I was making is that physio was useless for my situation, rotator cuff damage. Make the correct diagnosis, THEN treatment. There are many things that go wrong with shoulders & surgery isn’t necessarily the solution. I am glad PT helped your brother.

OP, how awful for you. I'm glad they are taking it seriously, ita a known issue that women's healthcare is lacking and we are not believed.

I have doctors tell me I cannot be in 24/7 pain, otherwise I wouldn't be able to continue to live my life the way I do. Or, I still have bills to pay and want to live a life worth living so have spent 40 years learning to grin and bare it. I cant even imagine what its like not to be in pain.

Keep fighting OP, incorrect physio could really mess you up more so you need a correct diagnosis.

I don't know why people find it so unbelievable that a doctor would say "This next place will do X" and the next place says "Your doctor wrong". It's happened to me more than once.

It’s amazing how many posters completely refuse to believe that a doctor might be negligent, incompetent or an arsehole. It’s common knowledge that male doctors often fob off women, especially when pain is a factor. Misogyny certainly doesn’t swerve professional men - why would it?! I had a GP snigger and say “haha, have you been fiddled with?” when I disclosed historic sexual abuse. There are plenty of HCPs out there who would dismiss, patronise and gaslight a woman in OP’s position.

Physios are helpful if they’re working off the correct diagnosis. I was referred to an orthopod who diagnosed my shoulder problems as Osteo arthritis. It wasn’t, it was rheumatoid arthritis - completely different treatment path. It’s not a question of lying or misleading. In my case it was an arrogant orthopod who didnt want to accept that he was wrong.

This. I developed shoulder pain and it was diagnosed as osteo arthritis by an orthopaedic specialist. Was referred to a physio who prescribed vigorous exercise. 12 months later and in excruciating pain with several swollen joints, including the shoulder, I went back to my GP who referred me to rheumatology. Diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis and put on meds, and told to stop the exercises immediately as they were doing more damage than good. It’s shit.

This is a well documented thing some male doctors do to women out of some sort of underlying misogyny or hatred.

I had no physio, etc after first seeing GP. Pointless.

I'm just going to point out here @Moanranger that my brother is currently being treated for RC injury which was very bad. He's seeing a good physio (they are not all good!) and the exercises and stretches are making a huge difference.
One of the main instructions is - is if hurts don't persevere.

This is an ongoing weakness for him (shoulder) and does reoccur. Over the years he's had a few physios (all privately) and never used a GP because he knew what was wrong.

All physio has helped somewhat but his current physio has got it all 100% right from the word 'go'.

He does exercises with weights, stretches on the floor and standing etc.
It's taken around 6 weeks at least to see improvement from not being able to move his arm above waist height to almost normal.

Hi, I haven’t read every single post, but the CORRECT shoulder damage diagnosis process is this ( I had my shoulder replaced last April.)
See GP, get referral for ultrasound. Get diagnosis from ultrasound, but this won’t be a full assessment, ultrasounds tell you only so much.
Then get referral to orthopod. Sounds like this part you have done.
see orthopod. The FIRST thing he should do is schedule an MRI. This is the gold standard in diagnostics for joint injuries.
That will clearly show all damage, & then a treatment plan from there.
If your orthopod hasn’t done an MRI, he is an incompetent quack.
I had no physio, etc after first seeing GP. Pointless. I did have a couple of steroid injections (first at ultrasound & second from orthopod) which helped with pain.
My symptoms were not nearly as bad as yours, but MRI found ruptures of both infraspinatus, the big triangular muscle at back (not picked up at ultrasound) and the supraspinatus, rendering my rotator cuff more or less useless. I am daily thankful to Mr Narang, my orthopod in Worthing. Genius.

OP, I haven't read all your comments or all the replies but I had a similar situation. A few years ago I was in a car accident was left with horrendous pain in my hip, lower back and occassional numbness in my leg. Physio tried various things and eventually said they believed it was a labral tear and there was nothing they could do.
GP called me and dismissed my condition, basically accused me of drug seeking and said the pain was in my head.
A year later I was speaking to a locum, in tears because I was due to go on holiday but was in so much pain that I didn't think I'd be able to go and it clearly wasn't in my head, there were days I could barely stand or get up and down the stairs. She was so lovely and referred me to orthopaedics.
I had one consultation with a specialist physio at ortho and they diagnosed a tendinopathy and bursitis and referred me back to msk physio.
Although I never got a proper apology from the original Dr, I have spoken with him a few times since and his manner is completely different. There will be lots of people who will dismiss this type of thing and say it doesn't happen, it doesn't make sense for a dr to do that and not treat you but oftentimes it's more complex than that. I think you really have to advocate for yourself, move ahead with the complaint if thats the route you want to take, but 100% push for a second opinion with another dr and asked to be referred to a specialist. Good luck.

I cannot see why all these people would lie to you/mislead you. 🤷‍♀️,

Physios are normally quite helpful.

Complain if you like, but I can’t see you getting very far. 🤷‍♀️

They can (and will) refer you to the NHS. Either to their own clinic, or to some one else’s if they think you need another speciality.

They can also write to your GP to get them to refer you for an MRI.

It’s not always once you go private, you have to stay private.