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Original poster

Covid positive - would you go to a hospital appointment?

151 replies

35hjnjknku · 20/07/2022 07:10

Have been testing positive for Covid since saturday but have a hospital appointment today. Just tested and still positive. DH thinks I should still go because they are hard to get and we're now living with it. NHs website still tells you to isolate. It doesnt feel quite right to me. What would others do?

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20viona · 20/07/2022 08:43

No no no no no think of all the vulnerable people you will be around.

RedHelenB · 20/07/2022 08:45

35hjnjknku · 20/07/2022 07:10

Have been testing positive for Covid since saturday but have a hospital appointment today. Just tested and still positive. DH thinks I should still go because they are hard to get and we're now living with it. NHs website still tells you to isolate. It doesnt feel quite right to me. What would others do?

Your dh is wrong. You need to rebook your appointment sorry.

Cyclewidow46 · 20/07/2022 08:45

Why did you not phone the hospital first thing on Monday morning and cancel? Other people are waiting for appointments and someone could have had yours.

lovescats3 · 20/07/2022 08:47

Don't go call them and explain situation

SherbertLemonDrop · 20/07/2022 08:48

100% no. Wtf OP is this a joke?!

Hbh17 · 20/07/2022 08:48

Speak to them. For anywhere else, I would say that of course you should go, but hospitals really aren't keen. They may be able to offer a phone call, so contact them ASAP.

Original poster
35hjnjknku · 20/07/2022 08:48

To those saying why I havent cancelled earlier - hospital themselves told me that because this is fairly urgent, they are happy to wait until this morning. It wasnt me making it up

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Cervinia · 20/07/2022 08:49

Well I don’t see it the same as your DH, selfish dick

BusyMum47 · 20/07/2022 08:50

⬆️ !!!

Can't believe you're even asking. Of course you shouldn't go!

rnsaslkih · 20/07/2022 08:51

My mum has cancer and is on nasty meds. She is on the most vulnerable list, has had 5 jabs and doesn’t go anywhere. Except the hospital because it’s unavoidable. Just think if you sat by someone like that in the eating room.

PurpleDaisies · 20/07/2022 08:52

tobi21 · 20/07/2022 08:17

@PurpleDaisies yes but in this instance it isn't an emergency. Talking about things that can wait

I know that. People are making statements about never darkening the door of a hospital if you’ve got covid. People should know it’s ok not to stay away if it’s an emergency.

TheGoogleMum · 20/07/2022 08:53

Ah ok well in that case I agree with you and not your DH. I work in a department that does sometimes see covid+ patients and we wear 'better' PPE for positive patients, place them in a room on their own away from other patients (we see immunocompromised patients), try to minimise your time in department, arrange a deep clean after you've been, allow vulnerable staff to sit appointment out (we have heavily pregnant and severe asthma sufferers that would have worked from home in peak covid but are back in the department now). So the right thing is to let staff know to minimise their risk if the appointment is urgent enough to see you anyway (I suspect surgery will be put off a few weeks though)

Firsttimecatlady · 20/07/2022 08:53

wishuponastar1988 · 20/07/2022 07:19

Ring the hospital and ask them. I had a growth scan when I tested positive and they wanted me to still go into the hospital but they rearranged my appointment for the end of the day and I was in a separate room.

This.
When my child was in hospital he tested positive for Covid (stay was unrelated) but he still was taken to scan appointments within out patients areas of the hospital / moved around the hospital for various treatments etc by hospital staff. They make arrangements- making sure that he was the last scan of the day etc. But to be honest when we were in there, other than wearing a mask, little difference was taken by staff.
Please contact the hospital and they will advise.

Ginfilledcats · 20/07/2022 08:53

NHS ops manager here, they will test you any way on admission and cancel you then and there anyway, so do them a favour and tell them in advance so they can reschedule you to ASAP and use the slot for someone else to not waste the space today.

they’ll likely swap someone from
next week into your slot and you into theirs, if you’re urgent you will still be urgent and therefore priority to get in ASAP.

you do not want to be operated on with covid if you can avoid it!

best of luck and hope you have a quick recovery from covid and your op

ijustcouldntthinkofausername · 20/07/2022 08:54

You CAN'T go!! I have isolated with my DS for the last 11 days because he is still testing a faint positive. Even though there are no government regulations to have to isolate anymore I would still not want to pass this awful virus on to anyone. It's been vile!
Please don't risk passing it onto someone critically vulnerable in hospital 🙏🏻 it may not have made you ill but it is still killing I'll people out there

junebirthdaygirl · 20/07/2022 08:54

First question the receptionist will ask is..have you any symptoms of Covid? Awkward!!!

Original poster
35hjnjknku · 20/07/2022 09:00

I dont have any symptoms anymore and it was only picked up due to a routine LFT. But as I said, I wont be going.

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CotswoldWoolly · 20/07/2022 09:01

Please don’t even contemplate going. From personal experience, if it’s urgent, the appointment will be rearranged quickly. (Abdominal scan for cancer rearranged within a week after testing positive.)

Sitdowncupoftea · 20/07/2022 09:02

Do not go to hospital there are sick elderly and vunerable people in there.

cocktailclub · 20/07/2022 09:03

Sometimes they can offer a phone consultation instead depending on the issue. Tell them now and let them advise.

Beautiful3 · 20/07/2022 09:04

Call them up and explain, they may switch it to a telephone appointment. Happened to us when our child had covid.

ReneBumsWombats · 20/07/2022 09:09

Of course not.

BogRollBOGOF · 20/07/2022 09:11

Contact the clinic, they'll know why you're there and the best approach to take.
You'd have to contact them to cancel anyway.

Hospitals are not Covid free. There will be people there that don't realise they have it. and people in Urgent Care to get antibiotics for their random virus-

ParvuliThankYouDebbie · 20/07/2022 09:14

35hjnjknku · 20/07/2022 08:48

To those saying why I havent cancelled earlier - hospital themselves told me that because this is fairly urgent, they are happy to wait until this morning. It wasnt me making it up

So what did they say they would if you were still positive this morning? Did they say they would rearrange it today? If it’s a fairly urgent operation presumably they will try to rearrange it asap

WinterDeWinter · 20/07/2022 09:14

"Living with it" means no lockdowns or other state mandates. It doesn't mean going out when you know you have covid and it definitely doesn't mean going to a hospital where there will be people whom it could kill.

Jesus Christ I despair. Are people really this dense or this sociopathically selfish?