Cycle day 84. Am I the only one that is feeling like staff think you are wasting GP time trying to get an appointment because it isn't "urgent enough"?

[InthekitchenAmz]

I'm currently on day 84 of my cycle.
Had quite a few symptoms during that time and what I thought were faint lines on cheaper strip tests, but got negatives on clearblue and frer. Not even getting the faint lines on strips anymore.

My partner wants me to go to the doctor but I'm worried to because I previously had a chemical pregnancy with positive test a few years ago and was sent to the hospital and at scan there was nothing and I was made to feel like shit for wasting time even though I had told the doctor some brands were negative and one brand showed positive. So much so that the hospital wrote a letter to go to recommend a referral to a gynea clinic and my GP did nothing about it. Said that they hadn't even received the letter despite it being hand delivered.

Feel like GP will think I am wasting their time when they are busy enough. 😞

Go to the GP and ask for a blood test, then if it's negative ask for referral to Gynae and fertility as you have been trying to conceive for over 2 years.

I used to feel the same and was fobbed off a lot, I finally plucked up the courage and was referred to Gynae and then fertility and I'm now 27 weeks pregnant after a second cycle of IVF. So wish I'd gone sooner.

Good Luck x

Thank you for replying and congratulations on your pregnancy. X

I want to get an appointment I just worry about calling up. There are only emergency appointments usually and they are gone fast if you can even get through on the phone.

Also forgot to add that my last period was 12 October and it seemed light then out of the blue on 13th I was sat on the sofa stood up and there was a massive red patch on the sofa nobody else was home but it's never happened to me before in decades of periods. I was wearing protection and in pjs and dressing gown went through all of that and through to the sofa in around 15-20 minutes. I hadn't realised until I stood up. Wonder if I should have worried more at the time.

I just thought it was a period. Now I'm questioning it. It was light before and light after this isolated incident.that day. It was almost as if a whole period came and went in 20 minutes and no periods since.

I would definitely see your GP, call up and ask for a routine appointment and if they can't give you one ask for an emergency one. The sooner you get this all checked out the better, I suffered with my periods for years.

As it's only once a month ( sometime less) we just grin and bare it we wouldn't do it with anything else.

It'll put your mind at ease and get the ball rolling, honestly I wish I'd done it sooner once o was past the dreaded receptionist's at the GP everyone was lovely and made sure everything was checked out x

NHS advice is to see your GP if your periods stop and you don't get one for three months, at cycle day 84 you're coming up on three months. I would try and get a routine appointment, even if it's a couple of weeks away, you will have hit 3 months without a period by then. Good luck

I would phone and say you’d like a routine appointment and ask if any of the practice GPs have a particular interest in fertility. Most have a specialism or interest which excites them and you don’t want to be assigned to the “foot specialist”.