GP misdiagnosed a condition, would you file a complaint?

[chatenoire]

Posting here for traffic. I went to my local surgery and got seen by GP A. Said GP diagnosed me with a chronic and life changing condition. Most ladies who suffer from it take months if not years to get a full diagnosis, a biopsy can be part of it. Normally diagnosed by specialist, but GP can diagnose if confident. I had only had symptoms for like 8 weeks and were not debilitating and I knew if I didn't cause them at least I made them worse. My symptoms didn't not match that condition.

The more I read about it, the more I started to question the original diagnosis. I also fully recovered within 48hrs and that diagnosis normally takes months to get back to remission. In the meantime, my cousin a dermatologist said that it was extremely unlikely to be what they diagnosed me with (it's a skin condition).

So I went back to the surgery to be seen by another GP. GP B said that as much as she could see where the original GP was coming from (although she said that would that never have been enough to give a full diagnosis), GP A definitely misdiagnosed me when you looked at the whole set of symptoms, circumstances, timelines, etc... and that I most certainly wouldn't have recovered so quickly. In fact I needed to stop the treatment cold turkey as it was going to cause more harm than good.

So the question is would you complain about GP A?

I would be very shocked that only dry skin could cause weeping and bleeding through clothes.

Bechets disease can cause rashes elsewhere and also some LS type lesions.

As above it could be that you were naturally coming to the end of a flare if it had been 8 weeks.

Hopefully it is just dry skin, but if it returns there are many autoimmune reasons why this could be happening.

Also all LS cases don't result in fusions and the end of a sex life....only those with the worst endings post on the Internet about their conditions and webmd/NHS have to give the symptoms it may cause.

A steroid cream for a few weeks was not going to cause you lifelong damage. The thought of having this illness will have annoyed you but from your post I can't see how you've had 8 weeks of bleeding weeping rashes through clothing and rashes on your face that can 'only' be dry skin.

I haven't had 8 weeks of bleeding and weeping. I had been having symptoms for 8 weeks in both ears and butt. I had 1 day of weeping (it was pretty odd to be fair), and all the bleeding was because I either scratched it (as mentioned out of satisfaction/pleasure )had been on the bike for long periods, or I had been constipated. It was never a lot of blood, I only figured it out in the end because my toilet paper was orange..