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To go to A and E because I can't get a doctors appointment?

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SheThinksShesPeople · 02/02/2015 19:08

I have the contraceptive implant, had it put in in September. Since then I have put on two stone, got spot all over my face and back, feel like killing myself and bled constantly.

I decided to give it a few months to see if it would settle down but it hasn't. Beginning of Jan phoned gp surgery for app to have it removed. Surgery works on a system whereby the doctor, rather than receptionist calls you back to make appointment. The doc that can remove implants only works Mondays. Three mondays in a row now I have booked with reception for doc to call me to make appointment, they haven't. I went into surgery at 5.30 today to try and speak to said doctor to make appointment as they hadnt called me but she'd already left. So arranged another phone call for next monday.

How the fuckity fuck do I get this out of my arm? Sexual health clinic only open to under 25's, walk in centre shut down, 101 tells me to see gp. Can i go to a and e? Perform surgery on myself? Any other ideas?

OP posts:

Tinks42 · 02/02/2015 20:14

Err, why are you so incensed wtf? You sound a bit strange here.

so you want to clog up an ACCIDENT and EMERGENCY department?

How dare you actually tell the OP this.

Idontseeanysontarans · 02/02/2015 20:14

Not sure I understood wtf's post - have you just told someone who has openly expressed suicidal thoughts and is considering performing minor surgery on herself out of desperation to not seek emergency treatment?

TheCountessofFitzdotterel · 02/02/2015 20:14

For goodness sake Wtfhappened, was that really necessary as a way to talk to a suicidal op? You could have given the information about what is likely to happen in a&e without being, to put it bluntly, such a cow.

SardineQueen · 02/02/2015 20:15

OP are you ok?

Have you got someone with you?

EdSheeran · 02/02/2015 20:15

Are you ok, SheThinks? First thing tomorrow, down to your GP surgery, stand there and insist of being seen as an emergency.

SardineQueen · 02/02/2015 20:16

wtf said that A&E is not the place to go if you are feeling suicidal generally, not just the OP.

Her view is that suicidal people should call the GP in the morning.

Fair to say that her advice is poor.

Rjae · 02/02/2015 20:16

A&E won't do a thing, guaranteed.

I think the BPAS is the best idea, they can certainly take them out.

I would try to calm down about it because even with it removed the hormones will circulate for a few more days anyway.

Agree with you though, implants are vile,

SardineQueen · 02/02/2015 20:17

OP have you got someone with you?

Tinks42 · 02/02/2015 20:17

Yes sweetheart, take no notice of these total twats on here.

Another one giving my FULL support here, and asking if you are ok?

Where are you? If in London I will come get you and take you there honey, that's a promise. PM me if you need.

Idontseeanysontarans · 02/02/2015 20:18

Thanks Sardine - I thought/hoped I might have read it wrong...
OP? You about? Is someone with you?

Stinkylinky · 02/02/2015 20:20

YABU about going to A&E but you have my full sympathy, the implant literally turned me into a depressed, miserable, nervous wreck.

I was under 25 when I had mine so got it removed at the sexual health clinic as soon as I had passed the required 3 month period before they consider taking it out.

I hope you get an appointment to get it removed soon

FightOrFlight · 02/02/2015 20:21

I'm surprised that the GP surgery called a friend to take her away rather than doing something like maybe contacting local mental health or something.

This is why I said it would not be the best idea to go in again and threaten to cut out an implant. That would definitely spark a safeguarding alert hot on the heels of the crying on the floor incident.

The OP doesn't need MH services by the sound of it, her suicidal feelings are medically induced by the hormones from the implant.

Contacting a sexual health clinic is the most obvious way to deal with this. OP needs to ring her nearest clinic and ask for an urgent appointment rather than getting histrionic at the GP surgery and threatening to perform surgery on herself.

yellowsnownoteatwillyou · 02/02/2015 20:23

Normally I would say no, but if your state of mind is effected get it out ASAP, my friend was the same and cut it out of her arm, it got infected and she was in agony for some time and has a massive scar on her arm.
She did get help for her mental state as this was the tipping point, she now has the help she needed and is in the place mentally she has been since she was a teenager.

Tinks42 · 02/02/2015 20:24

You are all really pissing me off here. How dare you tell the OP that shes getting histrionic. You are NOT her!

OP, please come back and let us know you are ok.

Madcatgirl · 02/02/2015 20:26

Op are you ok? I understand where you are coming from. I react very badly to hormonal contraception and have also been where you are with the suicidal thoughts and feeling psychotic and nonstop bleeding. I was on the pill though twice and unfortunately the injection once.

You need to get this dealt with ASAP. I would go along to the BPAS or family planning centres and explain what you've told us and hopefully they'll take it out for you.

I'm sending you because I know where you are. Please be kind to yourself, I know you're in a fog right now, but it will be better when you are hormone free,

Idontseeanysontarans · 02/02/2015 20:29

I'm really hoping the IP's just gone to A&E - even if she doesn't get it out right there and then at least she'll be somewhere that will hopefully be able to help her tonight.

Idontseeanysontarans · 02/02/2015 20:29

OP...

wtfhappened · 02/02/2015 20:31

For crying out loud ladies, get off your high horses for a second, put the brooms away and stop being so darned defensive.

I never said A&E isn't the place to go if you are suicidal, I said it wasn't the place to go because you can't get a dr's appointment to take out an implant.

If you are genuinely feeling suicidal then, of course, that is an emergency. However the suicidal feelings are bourne from the fact that she is suffering side effects from an implant that she can't get removed by her GP. Should she go to A&E because she is suicidal then they will deal with that side of things but that will not get better until the implant is removed and she will be advised by the psychiatric team to go to her GP to sort out the implant issue.........and so it continues.

The way I saw the 'I feel like cutting it out myself' comment was not one of acute psychosis but one of anger and frustration. My left eye twitched constantly for a week last month and nothing would stop it and I got so pissed off with it I said to DP 'I'm going to gauge my own fucking eye out if it doesn't stop soon'. Did he whip me off to A&E because I was actually going to do it? No because I wasn't actually serious, I was mad because it wouldn't stop.

And for whoever asked why I was incensed.....I have experience, that's all I'm saying.

FightOrFlight · 02/02/2015 20:33

How dare you tell the OP that shes getting histrionic.

I didn't, try reading my post properly. I was responding to the poster who suggested she go to the GP reception and threaten to cut it out.

Doing that would be histrionic when it would be far more useful to call a sexual health clinic and actually get an appointment to have it removed. OP has already said the only GP who can remove it is there on Mondays. That means another week before an appointment would be available. Calling a sexual health clinic and explaining how she feels may well result in an appointment in the next couple of days.

LineRunner · 02/02/2015 20:33

I knew MN had gone to the fucking dogs lately but this is just the turd on the cake.

How, seriously, can so many posters ignore the actual very first paragraph of the OP? ( '...feel like killing myself')

Thank God for people like SardineQueen.

And I think the OP's original idea of seeking emergency help for her emergency is a very good one.

Tinks42 · 02/02/2015 20:35

Exactly LineRunner.

Musicaltheatremum · 02/02/2015 20:35

I think that is poor sevice. Don't go to A&E but it needs to come out. MY GP partner will take them out/put them in with 5 minutes notice and reception can fit one in every day for him if they want to after the morning surgery as long as he isn't duty doctor. They need to look at getting another GP interested in doing them.

Idontseeanysontarans · 02/02/2015 20:35

There are many arseholes on AIBU today...
wtf I thought I'd read your post wrong and it appears I did.
Sorry

TheTruffleHunter · 02/02/2015 20:35

Do you know for a fact that A&E won't take out the implant OurMiracle? Serious question.

I once went in in a similar state with the copper coil and was told there was no-one there that could do anything (vv rural location tho) so had to wait for the only specially trained GP to be available.

Never known pain like it (other than actual labour) Hospital doc v sympathetic - and not busy before wtf jumps on me!

MerryInthechelseahotel · 02/02/2015 20:36

Wtfhappened that was so nasty! I hope, in your your job, you don't have to mix with the public.

FWIW, I had my implant taken out a little while ago and I didn't even bother with my GP I just phoned the family planning clinic and made an appointment. It was out in a week. bully for bloody you

Op I hope you get some help, you sound at the end of your tether

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