I have recently accessed my NHS app and I’m upset to see an incorrect diagnosis on there which has affected the way I have received subsequent treatment.
About a year ago I went to A&E with upper abdominal pain and what felt at the time as tightening chest and back pain. They did some basic checks, blood pressure, ECG and sent me on my way.
A few months later I went to a&e again, this time with excruciating abdominal pain. They were again going to send me on my way this time with a diagnosis of urine infection . I had to persist they do further checks and turns out I had a severe gallbladder infection and gallstones. One question by the doctor during diagnoses however puzzled me, how was my anxiety?
Turns out the doctor from my original visit had written to the GP that I presented to A&E with anxiety!? This was unknown to me, he did not say this at the time. I was clearly having an episode of gallbladder issues although I didn’t know it at the time. I feel my actual diagnosis the second time took much longer and I was having issues being taken seriously due to apparently having anxiety plastered on my health record.
AIBU to ask my GP to remove this? I’m upset at both being misdiagnosed but also to not be told about it, can they just take the opinion of one doctor who saw me for a maximum of five minutes.