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To go to A&E, don't want to waste anyone's time

243 replies

midsummernight · 07/01/2017 21:17

Frequent poster, name changed for this.
Need some advice, DH saying A&E but I don't want to be seen as a time waster.

Currently suffering from sever lower abdominal pains, passed out twice from the pain. Have just started bleeding fairly heavily but have already had period this month. Can't think straight because of pain. Just really worried because can't put it down to period pains as that happend last week. Any advise would be great, what
Would you do?

OP posts:
jinglestheelf · 08/01/2017 00:12

A&E definitely the right call in this situation, I hope you're OK Flowers

Littleballerina · 08/01/2017 00:14

Notanotherusername1234 what a stupid thing to say.

Glad you are being seen op.

Groovee · 08/01/2017 00:15

Hoping you are ok x

ExplodedCloud · 08/01/2017 00:15

lougle I remember every one of those.

QueenMortificado · 08/01/2017 00:17

To be fair to username, it's dangerous to gather the opinions of posters on a forum and act on that alone - after all, none of us actually know who anyone is or what medical training they may or may not have

At least if you call 111 and they think it's dangerous they can send an ambulance straight out

Disagree with the idea that if you're well enough to type you're well enough not to go to a&e though

nocoolnamesleft · 08/01/2017 00:23

I first registered on this site as I was reading, with rising horror, a mum asking for advice about her baby...because I could tell that he was sicker than pretty much any patient on our children's ward at that time. By the time I could come up with a username no one else had used, thanks to other posters, thankfully they were heading to A&E.

Glad to see the OP's gone to check out. Her description sounded A&E worthy to me.

JamButtyLand · 08/01/2017 00:25

Thanks lougle! ThAts similar to what o wanted to say'
Hope you ok op
I had similar symptoms and it was a miscarriage 😟

PleaseNotTrump · 08/01/2017 00:27

Good luck Flowers

NotAnotherUserName1234 · 08/01/2017 00:27

No - i wasn't taking the piss - there was a post on mumsnet this morning about how a&e is on its knees because people are using it as a first point of call (presumably on the advice of mumsnet) rather than contacting 111 or their own GP - seriously people contact your GP or 111 in the first instance - spending 3 or 4 hours in a&e only to be sent home and told to see your GP does not help anyone.

I may start an AIBU thread.

QueenMortificado · 08/01/2017 00:29

a&e is on its knees because people are using it as a first point of call (presumably on the advice of mumsnet)

Sure, mumsnet is to blame for the failing of the NHS Hmm

NotAnotherUserName1234 · 08/01/2017 00:32

well no, the failing of the NHS has been the topic of many threads lately so i don't want to go into that here - but your first call - assuming it is not an immediate life threatening emergency is your GP or 111, it is not mumsnet

UnbornMortificado · 08/01/2017 00:33

Notanother massive blood loss and loss of consciousness.

Those are serious symptoms.

Blood loss can be life threatening as can losing consciousness.

NotAnotherUserName1234 · 08/01/2017 00:35

not really massive blood loss and un-consciousness if she can type out a couple of posts on mumsnet - but to hedge my bets here, just call 111.

QueenMortificado · 08/01/2017 00:36

If you call 111 with massive blood loss and losing consciousness they'd tell you to go to A&E anyway though....

NotAnotherUserName1234 · 08/01/2017 00:38

sorry queen - are you saying that a heavy period and low iron means a 999 a&e trip? because maybe that's why a&e is on its knees.

TheoriginalLEM · 08/01/2017 00:39

well thankfully the OP went to A&E.

ophiotaurus · 08/01/2017 00:41

If passing out twice from pain and bleeding doesn't warrant a trip to a&e, I don't know what does!
Glad you are on your way there op Flowers

Italiangreyhound · 08/01/2017 00:41

Presumably A and E is on its knees because the taxes we pay in the UK are not distributed in the best way possible for the health of the nation.

VanillaSugar · 08/01/2017 00:43

Placemarking to see how much more of the knife nltanotherusernameis going to stick in.

QueenMortificado · 08/01/2017 00:43

Stop trying to blame mumsnet for the NHS "being on its knees"

You don't know if it was just a heavy period or it it was a haemorrhage. However if the OP called 111 and told them it was very heavy bleating with loss of consciousness as per her op then I think they'd tell her to go to A&E

This is like the thread a few months ago where this exact same thing happened, someone told her not to go as it was cases like hers that put the NHS under stress, and she posted later to say that she had nearly died and would've done if she hadn't gone to A&E

It's not your place to judge people in genuine circumstances for going to A&E. If she'd posted to say shed broken a fingernail or grazed her knee then yes. But not this.

Starlight2345 · 08/01/2017 00:46

notanother I posted on here for advice about my ds one evening, then spoke to 111 who told me they wanted my DS in A&E withing the hour. He was in surgery the next day.

We now live where we feel guilty for using services..That is why people post. I went into A&E apologising.

NotAnotherUserName1234 · 08/01/2017 00:47

but its not up to people on mumsnet either to judge the seriousness of a medical emergency, that's why we have out of hours GP and 111. If it really was that much of an emergency that the OP would have been dialing 999.

INeedNewShoes · 08/01/2017 00:48

On a recent thread like this where the OP had very similar symptoms and thanks to MN went to A&E, it was a bloody good job she did. She was very seriously ill.

On that thread there was a poster just like you Notanother - who said pretty much what you're saying. That poster had the balls to come back to the thread later and apologise for being such a dick and admit she was in the wrong.

If everyone waits until they're unconscious and unable to type before they dare go to A&E, that would often be too late.

UnbornMortificado · 08/01/2017 00:49

A heavy period is unlikely to keep knocking you unconscious surely? The op said her period was last week, this bleeding is unexplained.

I'm genuinely asking I'm not a HCP. I've had issues with periods and my iron and never had waves of pain or unconsciousness.

NotAnotherUserName1234 · 08/01/2017 00:51

fine - but my point is telephone the professionals who can send an ambulance or advise you to see your GP tomorrow, not to go and sit in a&e.