GP mucked up my blood tests

I’ve also noticed that if my results are ‘Normal’, they’re approved by non-medical staff. If they’re ’Abnormal’, they’re seen by a doctor. So it’s unlikely the doctor has even seen them. I wouldn’t ring them. Email would be better. Then you have a paper trail, and they have time to look and spot the mistake.

It’s not great, but it seems more like there may have been a clerical error that needs to be brought to their attention. If you have e-consult at your surgery, this would be a great way to contact them to ask for the correct blood tests to be taken. More concerning, if there was a patient mix-up, the person who was supposed to get those blood tests may not have realised that there has been an error. I understand that it’s very frustrating though. I had a blood test missed one time and it turned out that the lab can overrule the doctor’s decision if they feel it’s not needed. I got an apology from the GP and the blood test I needed.

I would contact via app or email. You’ll have a paper trial then.
When I’ve discussed things via phone the notes in the app are often VERY different to the discussion and you have no evidence of what has been said.

Being overweight is one of the biggest risk factors. Even if you were only overweight for a short period & have now lost weight you still have an increased risk of diabetes.
Diagnosing & treating diabetes is really important & has far more serious consequences than hypothyroidism.

If you still have symptoms book in with the GP in a couple of months to review & see if additional blood tests are needed.

So if it’s recorded on your gp notes on the nhs app that they were going to do a thyroid test, screen shot it, phone up the surgery and ask if they can check what tests you were sent for and if all the results are all in. If they say yes all tests are in ask them for the thyroid result. If they say there isn’t one, ask them to check the consultation notes on said day as you have them in front of you and it states thyroid test. Then ask them to get the gp to send you for one. Whining about it before you’ve actually done anything about it makes you seem hard work and your responses on here make you sound like you like being a permanent victim.

As far as the diabetes test, ffs get over it. You probably didn’t specify all the other tests individually either so why so upset for something that you have elevated risk factors for. You’d have been glad they tested you if it turned out you had diabetes. Just because your pancreas is working fine now, doesn’t mean it will carry on working fine, forever.
I went to the dr’s recently for hair loss and fatigue, turns out I’m B12 deficient, which makes sense for the fatigue, hair loss is probably menopause or the fact I’ve lost 4 stone in weight or both! They had to do a whole host of tests and also did the diabetic one, I didn’t get offended, I’d rather be tested than not, because I have risk factors for it too!
I also hate getting my blood taken, but trust me when I say the needles are much thinner than they used to be 30 years ago and with the vacuum tubes means you only get stabbed once. I have another 2 to look forward to in the next 2 months!

Next time, before doing the big woah is me routine, try to sort it out or find out all the info from the source. Yes it’s annoying but but ffs it’s called adulting!

Stop worrying! Just ask for these to be done, simple.

My daughter has an underactive thryoid and has for years. It tends to be because you have autoimmune and your body is killing off your thryoid (unfort) They don't actually do anything about an underactive thryoid until your thryoid is so bad that its not functioning at all and then they give you thryoid medication for life. Say the NHS guideliness is less than 4.2 ... my daughter's recently was over 7 and that's not enough for them to consider medication.

I'm a bit confused - is there any chance they were all done but not all the results have come in?
Can you ring your surgery and ask the staff on the desk to look on your notes to what tests were asked for?
In our surgery we would speak to either reception or email and say DR forgot to do X and they would be asked and X would appear on our file to be done

Ferritin & thyroid tests always take ages to come back as they are non-urgent tests.

It's worth checking in another week or so to see if the tests are back.

Thyroid is something that's monitored over a longer period as you get abnormal raised TSH for some time before it becomes treatable.

The tests you have so far rule out anything serious so try to relax about your health.

You can buy a thyroid screen test for under £20 in a supermarket.

Otherwise put in a routine request to your GP to check thyroid.

Why are you so reluctant to take the obvious step of talking to the people who can sort this ie your Medical Practise? Until you do you aren't going to know if this was deliberate or accidental and what needs to be done to fix it.

We all know the NHS is an inefficient shit storm now - but this is easily resolved.

Forget the Diabetes test - I’m tested regularly even though I’ve never shown the slightest hint of it, and I’m not overweight. I think they do them as a matter of course now.

Judt do an email or EConsult requesting the thyroid test etc.

Yeah, her posting style is really, really familiar.

They should have discussed diabetes. Tiredness, weight loss passing more urine can be a sign so he was right to check this but should have discussed with you and obviously ordered the other tests that he had advised you.
i would put it in writing to the practice to advise the bloods that were discussed in consultation have not been undertaken and you want them doing as agreed

As soon as the OP mentioned she works at the hospital, I thought of a poster who constantly posts about her severe health anxiety.

Very similar argumentative style too.

In Scotland you can’t test for vitamin D now as most people not on supplements go low over winter. The advice is just to buy vitamin D tablets over winter. Cholesterol is only useful if BMI smoling alcohol FH and whether or not you are diabetic is known as what you do about it depends on other risk factors

Well, he knows you, I don’t 🤷🏼‍♀️ perhaps he thought he’d take a ‘belt and braces approach’ wanted to cover all bases…thought it was unlikely but decided he’d 100% eliminate it, who knows?

"I'd have been on at them every day"
OP, you must be a GP's nightmare.
Do you have severe health anxiety?

They would not have done it on purpose - it’s a small box to click and it’s easily done by either clicking the wrong box or the click not being done quite in the right place

Rather than jumping to a complaint and wasting peoples time investigating, just ring up/email and explain?

So sorry to hear this, what a terrible experience. This is the knock on impact of being dismissed by GPs, it makes you avoid going in the future. GPs really struggle with chronic and autoimmune conditions, they don’t appear to be equipped to handle anything that isn’t a simple infection.

Maybe it’s concerning your GP.