Why is there suddenly so much wrong with me??

[LineRunner]

I feel like someone's sticking pins in my effigy somewhere.

I went from a normal, fit 51 year old in the summer to having, in quick succession, the following conditions: DVT, pulmonary embolism, fatigue, suspected endometrial cancer, a spectacular flare up of psoriasis, and now, today, a bloody painful corneal ulcer.

Why? Just why? Have I got Bloodybackluckitis or what? People at work probably think I'm making it all up like some kind of munchausenesque Walter Mitty.

Answers please on a postcard.

Ah, another one for the special Lady Probe...

What is this if which you speak!
I had an endometrial biopsy without anaesthetic 18 months ago...it was sore but ok.

Brave badvoc

Oh Badvoc, you are hard as nails.

I have to have a hysteroscopy next, which I gather is a bit more 'full on'.

Ha.
You wouldn't say that if you had ever seen me stub my toe :)
Am uber fed up of this ferocious bullshit....at times over the past few years I have felt more like a glove puppet than a person :(

Maybe there should be special clinics for people with multiple health problems where doctors could try to make connections, rather than compartmentalize everything.

I was saying that to my Dh the other day LR!
It's getting beyond a joke for me now...eyes, teeth, gallbladder surgery, now gynae issues AGAIN.
I could weep.

...but I won't.
I shall just sit here with my hot water bottle, paracetamol and watch repeats of the thick of it.
We all have our ways of coping :)

Mines breaking bad!
Multiple illness clinic is genius.
I find the minor things fall by the by too.
I remembered to mention my face rash which I've had for A YEAR when I saw dr Monday. I've finally got some cream for it.

That Hughes Syndrome site is interesting. I've had a lot of the 'unexplained' indicators, including blood clots, pre-eclampsia and migraines.

I've also eaten a banana.

That is a good idea. I can imagine a team approach with rheumatologist, neurologist, cardiologist, heamatogist, the ologist that looks after gland function, perhaps a dietician, and the specialty that looks after gastric issues - all together, with pain specialist and physios ect. They could see patients on their own , but get together to discuss each. Perhaps you should suggest it! I suppose they might say that's a GPS job!!

I was thinking more about one medical professional taking note of a patient's multiple illnesses who was prepared to try and join the dots.

Like a specialist GP?

Possibly, one who would run a multiple illnesses clinic and give longer appointments. A lot of GP surgeries now are compartmentalized to the extent that they will only see 'one problem at a time' in a 5-7 minute time frame.

Anyway, my eye is getting a bit better, thanks to six different kinds of eye drops!

My vision is consequently a tad blurred, and I keep crashing into things - not a good look when you're on warfarin and bruise easily!

Hi Line runner glad your eye is a bit better ...
I'd ask to get tested for Hughes if you haven't already been...they used to have a three clotting incidents then test thing -but that might have changed now...or could be changed if you ask...
Don't let them tell you it is only pregnancy related - or that you can't have it because you had successful pregnancies - tell them men get it too (although less common)...I was diagnosed pre-DCs.
(I think some docs think that because they are really pushing for earlier testing after miscarriages - which is a good thing.)

I don't know about your womb condition - would that upset your hormones? Maybe that could be a trigger? Although no one knows! Or maybe have lead to other problems ...
As to GPs and their 5 min slots - you should be able to make a double (or triple!) appointment - just go and unload - don't leave until you have made progress.
Personally I will never complain if I am kept waiting at the GP...
I've had really quick appts - but also overly long ones for a mystery pain - And I was in for absolutely ages once - standard appt but just as I was leaving and my guard was down, I let slip I was suicidal. She kept me there until she knew I was 'safe' and had arranged treatment..I think she saved my life...(I did then have to walk out tear stained through the crowded waiting room - full of people who I had kept waiting ...)

I did exactly that - made a double appointment with the GP I thought most able to rise to a challenge and said I needed an expert 'generalist' to try and work out what was wrong with me.

Glad your eye is a little better. Six kind of drops must be tricky. That alone must make you quite blurred. Hope you are more comfortable.

Thanks, unlucky and magso. I will get that appointment when I feel up to it.

Juggling the eye drops and tablets meant I didn't even leave the house today!

Hello, how are you doing? :)

Hi giraffes.

Today I am discovering that coming off tramadol, even after just five bloody days, is no picnic!

My eye is really healing up, though. Although I can't see properly yet because of the eye drops. I am doing squinty MNing.

Just to say I had my surgery yesterday under a general anaesthetic. I live on! And I'm already home which is great.

This was the gynae ontology thing. The surgeon seemed positive after, so awaiting histology results. Onwards and upwards.

Oncology. Though gynae ontology sounds much more interesting.