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

Thanks dietcoke and everyone for your helpful posts and messages that have contributed to me maintaining my sanity this past day. Still waiting and A&E is so slammed that the wait time has gone over 5 hours, they're now sending people to other hospitals with shorter waiting times.

I actually do have a sense of impending doom and like I want to just give up! But I think that's just because I'm in pain and feeling really sorry for myself

I know annie 😭

I'm not sure what triaged means but no one has taken my temperature etc so I'm guessing I've a long way to go ☹

Jesus Christ. Get your DH to tell someone you are deteriorating.

I've had the sense of impending doom a couple of times- when I had mastitis before I started taking antibiotics. It's a 'thing' when your body kind of knows it's really sick. Stay put and see a doctor x

God, that sounds nasty. I hope you get sorted soon, OP.

You poor thing. Please get your husband to have a word with reception regarding your symptoms. You sound dreadfully ill

Triaged is when you are seen by a nurse who will take a brief history and your vitals etc - based off this they decide what priority you are to be seen in/bump you up the queue or not. So I am willing them to hurry up and triage you ASAP.

Thank you drranj I am also willing them! I sent a cheeky prayer up but God is busy today. He must work in A&E

Hollow just go and say you think you need to be triaged ASAP.
There’s no point dying out of politeness!

Oh OP how awful. I really hope you are seen xx

Get DH to tell them you are getting worse
Really hope you get seen soon OP

Op glad you are now at a+e do get your oh to go through to triage so he can let them know how bad you are atm

rainbows I have twice but the receptionist looks so flustered and a doctor has even come out and apologised to everyone- asking anyone who feels they are able to please wait until tomorrow to see a GP.

Urgh. This would be the one day I need to be here. Or is it always like this? I don't know

Yes, definitely go and tell someone you have a stiff neck, lights hurt your eyes and you have a high temperature. Tell them you are getting worse.

can't believe you are still in a queue to be seen. That's 17 hours (?) after you first called 111 and were told you needed to be seen within 12.

Our NHS is barely fit for purpose.

Op I’m so sorry you are in this situation, yes our local A&E is like that most of the time
I really hope you get seen soon, sending positive vibes!

This is appalling. I really hope you get seen soon.

youarenotkiddingme yes you’re right, certainly our emergency care system doesn’t seem to be working anymore, it’s scary.

Is it any wonder that the UK's record of identifying things like sepsis is so poor, when someone who could have it (not saying you do at all OP, it's just to illustrate how a condition - anything really - the could be serious, could be missed) are made to wait this long, after they've already done the right thing and managed it at home for a long time already, and now actually need to be treated! It's bonkers. This is how I operate, I look after MYSELF and only go to A&E if I really need to - but here's OP, with people who purely happen to have arrived there earlier than her, being seen, and yet she is clearly very unwell. You couldn't make it up really could you. Hope you're seen soon and get the treatment that you need OP x

Don’t tell the receptionist. See if you can flag a nurse down.

I'm shocked and can't believe you still haven't even been triaged! Keep persevering til you get the help you need, good luck OP

That is shocking. You poor thing. 💐 I hope you get seen v quickly

I hope you get looked at soon.

When I had DD I had retained products (some of my placenta had attached itself to my cervix) and ended up in hospital for a week with a pretty nasty infection. I was lucky that I was still under my midwife at the time so she got me admitted right away.

That is awful, I wish more people had told you to go straight to a&e last night, myself included

Yes, please please grab a nurse or doctor.