My daughter, F22, has had abdominal pain (started lower left and has moved all over) and back pain with constant bloating for about a month now.
The doctors have said all they can do (apart from bloods, urine and swab which came back clear) is book a scan, which could be another 1-2 months away.
I completely understand the strain on the NHS, but my daughter is in constant moderate pain (and then it often flares up and becomes severe), to the point it’s affecting her work, exercise and down time. She’s stopped going to the gym because it makes the pain worse. She has quite a high pain tolerance but she was in tears with it the other day.
AIBU to think there must be something that can be done? She did go to A&E once when the pain got really bad, but they mentioned something about possible kidney stones and told her to ask her GP, so she was sent home.
AIBU?
AIBU to think this waiting time is ridiculous?
throughbridge · 28/03/2024 21:20
Am I being unreasonable?
35 votes. Final results.
POLLMereDintofPandiculation · 29/03/2024 18:37
@jacks11 "Urgent" I presume is about how likely it is to kill you or become too bad for treatment to be possible. Sometimes I wonder whether we have the balance right between prolonging life at all costs and prolong a reasonable quality of life. A life where everything you might wish to do is barred because of the pain is not really a life.
MereDintofPandiculation · 30/03/2024 21:12
@jacks11 Thanks for that comprehensive explanation.
"the caveat is that pain can often be managed with analgesics to ameliorate it to a greater or lesser degree" - but if it isn't being controlled by analgesics (analgesics are being used but not being effective", is that taken into account?
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