NHS refusing help, Doctor laughing at pain.

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Severe lower right abdominal pain stopping me from eating, sleeping, leaving the house etc.

Had an ultrasound and bloods at A&E came back fine although they said there was fluid at my lower right hand side they put it down to ovulation.

GP laughed at me and said " I don't know what the pain could be the hospital have tried to find it " I said " what if it's chronic appendicitis " I was told by the doctor " I don't have a crystal ball I can't see what's going to happen in the future and there's no way I will send you to hospital as there not going to do anything for you " she found all of this funny to. Rang 111 last night was told I would receive a phone call by a GP who then rang me and told me this is the end of it there is nothing they can do.

So I am stuck in pain with no answers and no where to turn for help, it's making me so depressed, the pain is controlling my life and there's nothing I can do.

That sounds really frustrating (and painful). Hope you get to the bottom of it soon.

I can reassure you, however, that the hospital would have ruled out appendicitis already by doing a blood test. If it was appendicitis, there would have been inflammation markers.

I assume from your username that you're female? Did they do an internal ultrasound?

It's not great advice given the current situation with the NHS but I would be turning up at A&E every single time you were in pain. When I suffered from lower abdominal pain over the summer, the first time I was in A&E, I got morphine and just told to come back if it happened again. So I did. I went there 4 times in total over 4 days. I finally got a gynae referral out of them, but I am still waiting for that appointment so I ended up going private.

Turns out I had stage 4 endometriosis that had caused an ovarian cyst and the pain was from it leaking. They found the cyst on the first internal ultrasound I had and everything was pretty quick from there.

If I were you I'd go back to A&E, do not downplay your pain in any way and ask for gynae referral. It won't be quick but it could start you on the path to getting this sorted.

Keep going back to A and E. Don't dismiss your symptoms.

I'm not sure that's correct about appendicitis showing up in a blood test! You may have a raised white blood count but not necessarily. I had a similar situation several years ago.

It started with mild discomfort and pain in that region. I was seen by a gastroenterologist who couldn't find anything wrong so I just lived with it. Four years later it suddenly became unbearable one night; I was in excruciating pain and was throwing up for hours. Too ill to get out of the house so GP visited me at home the next morning when I had a fever, was very pale, tachycardic and still in pain but not as bad as in the night and the vomiting had stoped. He shrugged his shoulders and put it down to food poisoning. I knew it wasn't and told him so but he knew best.

Over the next four years I returned to the GP on a few occasions with similar (but milder) symptoms and was fobbed off with "It's just a bit of IBS" [which I didn't agree with but, again, he knew best] so took unnecessary medication that did absolutely nothing to help.

Eventually it was so bad after a few days of agony that I got an ambulance. The paramedics thought it might have been gallstones as the pain was quite central by then but a scan at hospital revealed appendicitis.

It took another 3 1/2 days before they operated and then only because I threatened to discharge myself. It took the surgeon over 2 hours to dig it all out as I'd clearly had many, many episodes that had left a hell of a mess ... and it was a miracle that I hadn't died of peritonitis.

MAKE A FUSS IF YOU HAVE TO!

That's grim. Is the pain every day. All day or just part of the day. They took ages to diagnose my gallstones.

Years ago mumy mum was messed around for a year with pain like that, told she was imagining it, no diagnostic tests, it wasn't until a year later & her ovarian cyst had grown as big as a watermelon & strangulated her ovary & tube they decided to do an ultrasound, she was in theatre within the hour.