Hi all,
My DD19 has felt unwell for about 3 weeks with symptoms such as a prolonged headache, pressure in her temples, some dizziness when standing up and tingling in her hands and feet etc. She is a uni student registered with a GP in her uni city, so she had to have a phone call appointment with the GP today. The GP thinks DD is presenting with diabetes symptoms and wanted her to come in that day, but DD is at home 100 miles away and will be for another week. The GP then suggested that DD should go to A&E if she can’t manage to get an appointment with a GP here. I won’t be able to phone to ask about GP appointments with my GP until Monday, but DD doesn’t think she’s particularly ill and argues that our A&E waiting times are very long - my mother was in recently and had to wait for 5 hours. Obviously I don’t want to take liberties with her health if this is as serious as it might be, so I’m asking for advice on whether it would be best to go to A&E tomorrow morning (my opinion) or wait until Monday to try and get her a GP appointment here, or even wait until the Monday after for her to have a GP appointment back in her uni city (her opinion)? There’s no history of diabetes in the family and she’s always been in good health so this is really worrying me. Thanks for any advice.