To not attend A&E?

[PassMeAGripPlease]

One foot and leg swelled up completely out of the blue the other night, skin indented when pressed. Saw the GP yesterday morning, they measured and said the leg is 3cm larger than the other due to swelling. Recommend A&E. I didn’t attend as severely anxious around lots of people.
Leg seems to have gone down, no indenting or anything this morning. DH really wants me to get it checked out and is bothering me about it.

AIBU to think it was just something random and that it would be time wasting for me to go to A&E today given the symptoms have gone?

In the nicest way, what was the point in going to the GP if you're just going to completely ignore their advice?

Go to A&E. And once they save your life, go and get some help for your mental health.

You're not pathetic. I know a fear of going out is disabling but staying in the house means you're doing a lot of sitting about. This makes me urge you to go and get checked more. Maybe husband could come with you?

If it was a clot it could be heading anywhere by now - go to A&E as instructed.

As someone said you could have DVT which can be fatal. It needs checking straightaway. When I had a hard lump on the back of my leg (very similar feeling to previous DVT) I got an appointment with the GP about an hour later. They made an appointment with tye DVT clinic for early afternoon and I had a large blood clot that needed treatment (it wasn’t actually in a deep vein so not actually DVT) but a blood clot can move and become DVT. And if it’s in a deep vein it can move to your lungs or heart. I hope you have gone to A&E. Maybe you can tell them you are anxious and you can sit somewhere else in A&E?

My mum died from this. She didn’t want to leave her home to get checked out either.

You did really well plucking up the courage to go to the GP. Did they give you a letter for A&E? Do you have any photos of your leg from yesterday?

Which i did as that is where same day emergency care is but I skipped the a&e part. Its the same if you have a suspected broken bone our gp can refer straight to xray so you can skip a&e. No wonder a&e are so busy.

You can do it OP. I know it’s hard for you. When you get there, please tell the triage nurse about your agoraphobia and they might be able to give you something to help your anxiety while you’re there. Headphones and phone/ipad if you’ve got one. Drown out the noise.

Please be brave and get checked out. Thinking of you. You’ll be back home before you know it.

I get it i struggle with leaving the house but honestly you can do this. No matter how hard it is you need to do this xx

If she has a blood clot, she may not be here on Sunday morning.

This is dreadful advice, op. Please don’t wait to go to a&e.

Reported this idiotic and dangerous ‘advice’

The thing with dvt you dont always know if they have got worse you just die suddenly. She needs to get a proper diagnosis and treatment. Im hoping that she is already in a&e.

Go to A&E right now. Your doctor has told you to go to A&E.

Really hope you’re on your way. I had a blood clot in my leg. For weeks. (Initially GP thought it was cellulitis). I was so lucky. What can you do to manage your anxiety? Can you have someone sit with you? Stay in a corner seat? What exactly is scary??
And yes. Back to GP after this to sort out your MH.

I’ve managed to make it to A&E. The long wait begins.

Thank you everyone for your encouragement.

Brilliant-you’ve done absolutely the right thing.

Well done for getting there OP. Hope your wait isn’t too long.

You absolute superstar. Well done. Hopefully you’ll be home and sorted before too long. Have you got anything to distract you?

Well done OP. I hope you’re ok, let us know how you’re getting on.

Well done! 👍🏻 Hope the wait is not too long

I would, as others have said could be dvt, cellulitis, or even heart related x

Well done OP, so glad you have managed to go to A&E. Hope everything is ok.

I hope the wait isn't as bad as you fear, @PassMeAGripPlease.

For anyone else in this situation, I'd suggest asking your GP or 111 for an SDEC referral. It's a new provision in every hospital with an A&E and is essentially direct admission to a temporary 'ward' which enables the hospital to run tests on you quickly. This is exactly the sort of thing it's perfect for and it's a shame all GPs aren't using it. I was referred for a D Dimer recently with a mysterious pain I thought was a pulled muscle in my chest (and indeed luckily that was all it was). From filling in the online GP triage form asking for pain relief, to being called straight in to see them face to face, to being sent to SDEC, blood test, chest x-ray, ECG, consultant read out, codeine prescribed and handed to me, and home again, was under four hours in total.