To want to go to A&E!?

[hollowtree]

My first AIBU so go a little easy- also feeling extremely sorry for myself!

For about 2 weeks I've been having chronic headaches (think can't drive/lights hurt) which I put down to sleep deprivation. On my worst days I used the codiene I was given after my EMCS! Naughty I know but when you have a small baby and no time for the bloody doctors you'll do anything.

Last few days been feeling a bit fluey- temperature, fatigue, aches and pains along with the usual cough/sore throat/stuffy nose.

Then, last night around 2am I woke up with this excruciating pain in my ear along with (what sounded to me like) a firework display in my head! Followed by fluid leaking out from my ear all over my pillow.

So I thought- happy days: must have been an ear infection/abscess which had sorted itself out and explains the headaches and temperature.

But the pain is getting worse. And I'm feeling so dizzy and just so so shit. My head is banging, my neck is aching and my body feels like it's giving up on me.

I sort of want to see if I need fixing, and getting through today has been a struggle let alone waiting all of tomorrow for an appointment on Monday 😓 WIBU to call 111 and ask if I should be worried or if I need to go to A&E?

I read a thread on here recently about wasting NHS resources and now feeling guilty please tel me WWYD

I hope your appointment went well OP and you got some treatment. Hopefully it isn't something serious but you are absolutely right to seek medical attention.

People should never tell someone not to seek medical advice. A person knows their own body and what is 'normal' for them so if they feel something is very wrong then they absolutely should be seen by a medical professional no matter what time or day it is.

Never feel guilty about asking to see a doctor when you think something is wrong...this is exactly what they are there for and why we have OOH medical care services.

I do hope you feel better soon OP. Ear problems can very much cause your symptoms but so can many other more dangerous conditions so it is always best to be safe instead of trying to suffer through the weekend.

My aunt felt unwell with a raging temperature, but felt absolutely freezing within herself. She thought she'd contracted a flu bug, and was going to just try and ride it out. After a few days she was still burning up, but because she was shaking rigorously from feeling cold, she decided to go to OOH.
Luckily she did, because she ended up spending a week in hospital very ill, with her kidneys failing, just because she'd been bitten on the hand by a cat a couple of weeks before.
We'd not known how dangerous it can be to receive a cat bite.

Everything ok?

Get well soon, OP

Hope you’re ok OP, glad you’re getting seen by a medic, and not putting it off.

Let us know you're OK when you can OP

I hope you’re ok op.

I hope u are okay OP

How are you doing OP?

Gosh OP sounds horrific- please let us know how it's going when you can

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Hope you're ok OP.

Are you ok OP?

Let us know how you are OP? I hope all is well with you x

Hope all is ok OP

OP

It's so stupid to try and put someone who is genuinely ill off seeking medical advice. Even if that does mean going to A&E!

So glad you are seeking QUALIFIED medical help op x
Those symptons&feelings sound awful !. I hope alls well x

hollowtree, how are you doing? X

I have just seen this thread I hope you are ok op! To the posters saying you must be ok to be able to type, go and boil your heads, how ridiculous.

How can it not be an emergency if it's been going on for some days and suddenly the symptoms have become much, much, worse? I hope you are feeling better and sleeping whatever it is off now, OP.

Thinking of you op

Hope you are ok OP?