Strange appointment with GP - should I have said I'm pregnant (again)?

[Blankel]

I had a GP appointment today for a UTI, I'm 36 weeks pregnant (so I'm very pregnant). I was asked to provide a urine sample on arrival. I said to the GP that I'm 36 weeks pregnant and I also said that my midwife had tested my urine and said there are nitrates and protein in there and that she had sent me to them for antibiotics. Then the GP asked for my symptoms and I told her. She then asked me to get on the scales, which I did and it said I'm 70.2kg, which she calculated as a BMI of 28 and told me my BMI is overweight. She then asked to measure my waist, which I said ok to, and it was 99cm. She told me my height to waist ratio was very high (my waist is just under 2/3 of my height) and that I should "work on that", recommending that I try to go for a daily walk and work on my diet to improve it - and that it might ease my symptoms. She then said to wait for the urine sample results and I'd get a phone call if I need antibiotics.

I feel a bit confused. I'm very clearly heavily pregnant so surely the whole issue of having a skewed height to waist ratio isn't a problem? Or am I missing something? Should I have reiterated that I'm pregnant? I didn't want to sound like an idiot...it was really obvious that I'm pregnant - she literally was measuring my waist so can't have missed my bump! Should I be trying to lose weight?

Spoken to NHS111 on the phone now and they've said someone will call us back within two hours.

@WeAreBob our GP surgery said specifically when asked they were not allowed to have a sample dropped in as they didn't have anywhere to store them

@Blankel as others have said get treaent ASAP - go to hospital if need be, this could be very dangerous for you. I'd ask to speak to practice manner and make a formal compliant, your GP sounds incompentant

Because she stood there getting her belly measured and listened to a lecture on waist to height ratio without opening her mouth and saying "I'm bloody pregnant you loon."

Yes, the GP was shit. She should email in a complaint because that was shocking care she received.

The OP was also negligent in her own health by just gormlessly accepting this and leaving the room.

Both these things can be true. She has a voice. She didn't use it. Time to be an adult.

You said "all the surgeries work the same". Word-for-word, that's what you said. I already said what happened with my surgery and it wasn't the same... I wasn't asked to do a sample on Monday, I was asked to fill out the online form for an appointment to do a sample - and I did (as has been said multiple times).

My hospital has a maternity line you're supposed to phone on the ward - you're not supposed to just show up. Even if you think you're in labour, you're supposed to phone. That's who we phoned. I'm sorry about your tooth and what you went through, hope you're ok now.

With an asterix.
I said *all

Because my previous post, which you quoted so you read it, ended on "all" as it posted too soon.

I was continuing a sentence after discussing my experience with a lot of surgeries.

Covid also changed a lot as a PP said. It was all phone appointments. If a sample was needed, you didn't get a face to face appointment. You got a slot to go in for a sample tube and then had to hand those in.

Sorry what i meant was i think the midwife was trying to say you either go to hospital or see a gp as urgent not a regular appointment

i dont think you understood the urgency especially now a this gp doesnt seem to realise your pgrenant

How would it have changed anything if I'd disagreed with the GP though? She said she'd prescribe the medication when the results are back... it's not as if I left with her telling me she's not going to do anything to help me. How am I (as a non-medical professional) supposed to know that the GP wasn't following the guidelines?

@WeAreBob except she didn’t though, as she said. Possibly because she’d already given a sample in the day before. Really bizarre that you think the OP is a liar because you’ve dealt with over 12 GP surgeries and therefore no absolutely everything about how they work.

Ridiculous! If MWs were trained and approved to prescribe you could have had a prescription for ABs on Sunday

Even following on from your last post, that's what you said... I'm not sure why you think you know more about what happened than I do.

I did think this. My midwife is absolutely brilliant and I can't believe she's not considered competent enough to do so many things that she could easily do.

@WeAreBob what is the point you're trying to make as I'm a bit lost?

Are you trying to say because all the GPs your mum has been to before and after covid follow x procedure that OP should of followed this procedure or not?

It seems to change from post to post

@Blankel

I said that my mum has dealt with a lot of surgeries. All the surgeries worked the same.

I did not say that all surgeries work the same
I said all the surgeries my mum has deal with work the same way, so I find it unusual, especially after covid, that they wouldn't accept a sample after a telephone appointment. A face to face isnt necessary for that.

You misunderstood your midwife. She wanted to to go to hospital or get an emergency appointmentt. You waited 5 days.

Your GP measures you and talked to you about obesity and waist size and yo

*you say nothing.

It isn't outside the realm of possibility that you misunderstood being asked for a sample.

How strange! When I was newly pregnant I called my GP to check if I could safely use canesten for thrush and they immediately put me on antibiotics in case it was a UTI (it was just thrush.) Crazy how they managed to make it about your "weight" it's like they have a script sometimes.

Sounds like one of those GPs with fake qualifications. Absolutely terrifying.
Or else they’re super woke maybe they were too scared to insult you in case you were just a bit plump.

I was asking the OP why she didn't hand one in. Does hers work differently and instead of answering she just said "how do you know how all surgeries work."

I didn't say I did. She kept repeating that I did.

I said that from my experience, that's how they're working.

She hasn't followed her midwives instructions.
She let a doctor measure and weigh her and go on about waist height ratio without saying anything.
She had a telephone appointment where it was decided she needed a sample done. And then they wait 4 days?

That just does not sound right. I'm questioning if the OP actually understands what is asked of her.

You're either unable or unwilling to read what actually happened because you keep accusing me of doing things that you've been repeatedly told didn't happen.

@WeAreBob from your post it appeared you was piling on and interrogating the OP with the repeated "why haven't you done this"

How exactly do you think anyone misunderstands being asked for a urine sample? They hand you a pot to piss in, you piss in it and you hand it back. Even if I somehow completely misunderstood that handing over of the pot and it was actually some kind of gift, surely the GP would've clarified "no, Blankel, that's not for a urine sample, that's just a cute ornament for your windowsill" instead of pretending to take the same and telling me to wait for the results.

It's very, very, very much outside the realm of possibility that I misunderstood what I was supposed to do. It's far, far, far more likely that you're wrong.

Op hope you get sorted soon. You've done nothing wrong.

But your appointment reminds me of a call to 111 at 35 weeks - I had a high temperature and felt really unwell later i found out it was flu - they asked "Do you have a swollen abdomen?"

You post beats that for the daftest question ever to ask a pregnant woman.

WeAreBob · Today 23:18
All the surgeries work the same.

This is what you wrote. I guess what you meant was all the surgeries your mum dealt with work the same, but it isn't what you wrote.

@Blankel I really hope you get some antibiotics soon. Utis are not fun. I cannot believe that gp acted I that way at your appointment. Surely your notes would have said that you were pregnant so you weren't prescribed something unsuitable!