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AIBU?

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Original poster

To want the dr to do more

246 replies

bouncingbelle · 20/01/2015 19:39

I've been lying on my living room floor for 20 hours since bending down to pick up my phone and doing something to my back. I literally can't move-can't roll over, sit up, anything. Called gp and they have given me painkillers but they aren't touching the pain and I still can't move.

AIBU to want someone to do SOMETHING? How long am I expected to lie like this??!! (Self-pity alert!)

OP posts:
Lottiedoubtie · 21/01/2015 10:31

Ring back and say the pain is stopping you breathing properly.

They shouldn't have refused you the first time. You clearly need emergency treatment.

Did you minimise things a bit when you phoned?

PausingFlatly · 21/01/2015 10:32

Yep, pain is stopping you breathing properly and you have a serious heart complaint and have previously had a stroke.

Hobby2014 · 21/01/2015 10:33

I agree DP needs to get you into taxi to a&e. I know my DH wouldn't be leaving me like that for this about of time. You need seeing to. This isn't normal.

Hobby2014 · 21/01/2015 10:33

amount*

ChestyTheSnowman · 21/01/2015 10:34

Oh my goodness OP.

They refused to send an ambulance?!

I hope your GP is on his way out Angry

TSSDNCOP · 21/01/2015 10:34

They may not up your existing painkillers, but they can change them. DM has 10mg morphine patches as Tramodal wasn't touching her pain. She also has a really great drug beginning with A that's enabling pain free sleep.

I wish I could name their GP without outing myself, because they are absolutely terrific.

Nicknacky sorry to hear you're poorly too Sad.

Due2015 · 21/01/2015 10:35

I would ring again you can't be left like that

spiderlight · 21/01/2015 10:36

This is madness. They should have sent an ambulance.

Original poster
bouncingbelle · 21/01/2015 10:38

Didn't mention the stroke to 999 but did to nhs24. I'm actually back in the floor as being upright caused too much pain and that's when I was sick. I've never heard,of anyone being refused an ambulance ever.

Dp doesnt have a driving licence (bone of contention at best of times) , he only has a motorbike. I could co-drive him I suppose as he is in the car insurance but I don't feel capable. Even if we got a lift, I honestly don't know if I could cope with the journey - nearest hospital is 20 miles away.

Gp has just called - he was lovely. He's going to talk to one of the nurses (?!) and see about either coming to see me or getting me to hospital. He did say "oh maybe you just need to give the tramadol time to work" and I was like "I think 31 hours is long enough!"

OP posts:
TSSDNCOP · 21/01/2015 10:40

Found it: Amitryptyline

DM was worried as it is used for depression also. GP assured fine in context prescribed. It's provided pain free sleep, essential for back recovery presumably.

DAuntie was the one that got the GP out for DM. You don't fuck with DAuntie. Would you like to borrow her OP? You need a politely insistent and unrelenting friend otherwise.

GraysAnalogy · 21/01/2015 10:41

Working in healthcare myself I would never ever suggest this, but I too would ring and say you're having trouble breathing now. That you're back on the floor and that you've had a stroke previously.

Do it now. Don't wait a second longer this is not on.

Original poster
bouncingbelle · 21/01/2015 10:41

If this wasn't happening to me, I wouldn't believe it, wish to god I had just called ambulance in the first place. Idiot.

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Unidentifieditem · 21/01/2015 10:42

this is fucking outrageous. Call the ambulance, say the pain is worse and you are struggling to breathe. Fucking GPS and Fucking nhs24 and fucking people who ring ambulances and waste their time and there you are in agony for 30 hours with nothing to manage the pain and nobody investigating the cause. THIS IS FUCKING OUTRAGEOUS. CALL THEM AGAIN make a fucking huge fuss. Say the pain makes you blackout. whatever it bloody takes.

My friends is a paramedic. She has been called out for people with a kid who has a temp of 39 and no other symptoms. She says you need an ambulance pronto.

TSSDNCOP · 21/01/2015 10:42

YY OP. DM's GP gave the Tramadol 4 days. She was in tears by day 3. GP agreed Tramadol not always effective. Changed to Morphine patches. Relief within 24 hours, has progressively improved.

Unidentifieditem · 21/01/2015 10:43

also the gp is not lovely. He is barely doing his job. do not be fooled.

SquirrelWoman · 21/01/2015 10:44

Ring again, they'll have to take notice then or it'll look bad on them.

My dad is elderly and sometimes wants to go into hospital for a few days. He packs his bags and calls 999. They come. Refuse. Say he should go to the doctor. He waits a few hours and calls again. Same thing.

So he waits a few more hours and calls again. They take him. Most of the time he has little more than a chest infection but they keep him in a few days anyway on antibiotics. If they can help people like him who don't really need help they can and should be helping you who desperately needs help.

You are in pain and clearly very ill. You need and deserve help. You are not wasting their time, you are entitled to this help. I hope it gets better for you very soon.

gamerchick · 21/01/2015 10:45

So are you on the floor or settee now? It's not clear.

Going against the hysterical grain I don't really know what the hospital can do for you. I've put my back out at various times and I allow myself one day of rest to get over the not being able to walk, clag heat pads to the area and rub painkilling gel in and then force myself to get moving the next day. Yes it's pure agony but making a lot of noise helps.

You need to get up.. The longer you lie there the more it'll hurt.

TSSDNCOP · 21/01/2015 10:49

I reckon if the OP thought she could run it off gamer she'd have given it a shot by now.

GraysAnalogy · 21/01/2015 10:49

gamer
the problem needs to be investigated.

The op needs to be mobilised because her risk of complications is high.

Controlled drugs can be prescribed that GP's would find difficult to or be wary of.

I primarily work in orthopaedics, so I don't think I'm being hysterical at all. Nor are others.

Gileswithachainsaw · 21/01/2015 10:49

Surely it's not advisable to tell her to move?

We don't know what is wrong she needs assessing.

moving could do more damage

Original poster
bouncingbelle · 21/01/2015 10:49

Dr on his way out ....

OP posts:
GraysAnalogy · 21/01/2015 10:50

If this bloody doctor doesn't get you to the hospital...

pigsinmud · 21/01/2015 10:52

Oh crikey OP. I can't believe they didn't come! How come they go out to time wasters? Can you stand upright? I really hope it gets sorted soon.

Gileswithachainsaw · 21/01/2015 10:52

tell your dp to not let him put til he's called an ambulance

TSSDNCOP · 21/01/2015 10:52

Excellent OP. Put your thinking hat on. If the GP days hospital not needed, do you have a comfortable straight back chair you can be moved to. Preferably with arms. Send DP out for plug in heat blankets.

Be firm. The Tramafol isn't working. Switch it to morphine. Also something punchy for night relief. Seek referral for pain clinic.

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