to not agree with our GP

[SarahStrattonsSparkler]

DD1 has had a cold for the last 2 weeks. She is now feeling pretty grotty, has a temperature (not particularly high) and a sore throat and is now coughing up green stuff and sicking up masses of phlegm/mucus.

She went to see the GP yesterday. She was in there for under 5 minutes before coming out and saying that he had said there was nothing wrong with her.

She's 17 and not one for making a fuss or going to the Drs. Would I be being a bit PFB to take her to see a different GP?

I would go for a second opinion. I am very surprised that he didn't listen to her chest. I really don't see how he could tell her chest was clear without listening.

green phlegm is not always an indicator of a chest infection.

I probably have 5 to 8 true chest infections every winter. Most without green phlegm.

One one hand you could get her AB's and she could get well. On the other hand it has only been two weeks, she is not at deaths door so just rest, water and take paracetamol.

I was telling my GP i felt like crap for weeks, i collapsed and it turned out i had double pulmonary embolisms and retained placenta that caused a womb infection.

Morrell of the story, they are only human get a second opinion.

Vomiting mucus, poor her, doesn't sound much fun.
Very surprised this didn't indicate further investigation (for instance ruling out gallstones).

You do mean vomiting .... not just "coughing up lots of.." ?

No proper vomiting it, masses of it. She was sick again this morning. :(

Well, I took her back to the Drs this morning and saw a different GP. He gave her a thorough check up and the upshot of it was she has a chest infection. Not a bad one, but definitely an infection. He is going to have a quiet word with the other GP who apparently has only just joined the practise. She has antibiotics now and should hopefully be feeling better soon.

Thank you everyone for making me feel like I wasn't making a big noisy fuss about nothing to take her back.

There's a really really nasty cold-type thing going around as well... I'm talking so nasty it decimated an entire school of teaching staff in one case I know of (and not much fells primary teachers in September after the holidays off) and I'm still trying to shift it and the subsequent chest-ikk I always get after 6 bloody weeks of the damn thing.

Not a lot drops me during school term time, but this one flying around was fucking evil - and you're not THAT far away from me really so it could be the similar thing.

That sounds very much like what hers started out as. Are you a fellow Rural Person too emptyshell?

Go and get a second opinion. Many moons ago when I was 16 I was ill. I knew I was ill because I felt dreadful but I also didn't like going to school so my GP decided that it was all psychosomatic....this went on for months before one day I collapsed at school and finally they did some blood tests, turned out I had Legionella and was very ill for a while! My mum was mortified because she had just trusted that the Dr knew best.

It may be a brave woman who criticises a GP on MN but it shouldn't be. They are not superhuman they are fallable just like you and I and sometimes they get it wrong

I'm the other side of Nottingham to you guys - but if it's flying around here, I'm guessing it's quite likely to be over your way as well.

Like I say - it had utterly decimated a school I was in a few weeks ago (at one point they had 90% of their teaching staff off with it).

I also agree, it sounds like a bacterial infection.

Re Deepest darkest lincolnshire....I hear you. I grew up in rural deepest darkest lincs, bus route? What bus route?!!!

Hahahaha. Bus route. I do over 100 miles a day taking the DDs to their schools. Farking buses leave the schools 5 minutes before the end of the school day.

FFS you'd think someone with half a brain would work that one out.

Heh I used to live in the middle of rural Somerset - the genius at the bus company timetabled the buses leaving the village at 7am and then not another until 9.30 am... no chance if you wanted to get into the big city for 9am work start there then!

Same here, there just aren't any buses that get them to school even remotely near the right time. That's from one town to 2 other towns, not even a village.

FFS, what geniuses!! The money they are losing for one and for two those little darlings running up and down the isle throwing skittles at blue haired old ladies.....haha!
Honestly though, its senseless! My DD uses a bus provided by the county to take her to school (obv not just her, she isn't that important!!) but if that weren't there then I would also have the 100 mile trip each day. Where do I live now, Buckinghamshire. Furthest place from the coast in the UK and still in the dark ages

I mean, can you imagine? taking the DC's to school. The time that would slash off mumsnet and facebook my valuable housewife timetable.

Yes, three hours a day in my case I have applied for places on the school buses but they won't play ball as they don't go to the local Grammar school to them.

That's because there's no farking spaces you fuckwits

I'd pee myself with happiness if they could go to the local one.

Thats total madness, local governments are total arses. I bet there are children at the local school who live out of catchment........

The catchment grammar my DD goes to is an hour away by bus. Well thats how long the journey takes. The other day the driver didn't even know the route and the children had to talk him through it!!!!

phlegm/mucus shouldn't be green and is indicative of infection. I get lots of it with sinusitis........to the point where I'm vomming it back up too.

Glad DD has AB now so will be recovering. I had a cold during half term (so couldn't bag a few days sick ), I'm still coughing up and passing mucas in my stools (sorry TMI!) where its oviously got into my stomach.

for you that you can't get DC's into local school and they won't provide transport to other nearest, actually though I think that is one of the stipulations where they have to provide it - round these parts anyway

Last year I had cold after bloody cold and had a green phlegmy cough for 8 weeks before seeing the dr. Without even listening to my chest she sent me away saying if I was still coughing in two weeks to come back. I went back after a week (pressured by work colleagues) where she listened to my chest and then asked if I had asthma (I don't have asthma) and then prescribed my anti Bs and an inhaler. I then had to have a second course as the infection was so set in it wouldn't clear. Next time I won't leave it so long.

At six I was told I had wind and I should stop being a big baby. Two weeks later, my appendix burst and I nearly died. GPs do make mistakes.

Second muppet GPs. Bit like redflag I had massive pulmonary embolism and was being told (over the course of 3 months) that I was having panic attacks. She gave me a paper bag....
By the time I got into hospital they reckoned I was hours away from my heart collapsing from the strain.
If it doesn't feel right then it might not be.