I’m in so much pain I feel sick but my GP won’t see me

[SweetSilverLark]

I injured myself five months ago. I’m seeing physio but it’s a two month wait for a face to face appointment and every night doing the exercises the video physio set me is leaving me in agony.

It’s to the point I feel sick and can’t concentrate on my work, I’m taking the highest dose of ibuprofen and paracetamol I can but they’re not doing a thing. The GP keeps pushing me back and saying it’s a physio issue and because of that, they can’t prescribe me anything.

I have been in this pain for five months now and I just can’t keep doing it. WIBU to sit in my GP’s reception on Monday until they’ll sit me in front of a doctor and let me explain the impact it’s having on my life?

An X-ray or MRI via a consultant is needed to look in to this knee problem. I injured my back last year and was sent to A&E via a walk in centre. This is the best idea. Had an MRI after a 14 hour wait and was seen by a physio service contracted out to the NHS within 4 days and saw them for 12 weeks.

Painkillers have their use but they are masking the issue underneath. I took as few as possible so I knew what my body was genuinely capable of.

I had physio for a year, extreme foot pain. Tried playing squash to build muscle. When i asked v v firmly for xray it turned to to be damaged and chiped bone and that physio was v unsuitable for. It needed an op. Causing issues still many many years later

No wonder A&E is rammed.

I had a hip replacement 11 years ago and woke up with a new pain in a different site which has never gone away and limits my life enormously. When lying ion the bed I cannot lift my leg - nothing happens and I am in constant pain and it is numb a lot of the time.

I cannot tell you how many times I have seen doctors about this and I have been patted on the head, told it is fine and given steroid injections which do nothing at all. I saw the orthopedic surgeon again this week and told him very bluntly that I was heartily pissed off with it all and could not countenance going on as I am. He is now organising a lumbar spine MRI as he thinks that during the surgery the manipulations might have upset something in my spine - now, he comes up with this after 11 years of misery! They have known for years that my leg does not move properly and is numb - 11 bloody years!

Have you tried the old exaggeration and overdramatisation trick?

When you do the E consult for the GP make sure you are making the most out of everything.