Does that seem likely?
My dad is 81 and has been progressively deteriorating over the last year. He has been seeing his gp for a variety of things over this time, with no real diagnosis.
I googled and found that his symptoms were completely explained by Parkinson's disease so I sent him and my mum off to the gp armed with a list of symptoms, all highlighted. Gp agreed that was a likely diagnosis and said he would arrange a referral to a neurologist.
An hour later gp phones mum to say he was sorry but couldn't refer him as my dad was diagnosed with Parkinson's 14 mths ago at a geriatric clinic. He had just found the referral letter in his history.
This was an appointment when he started losing weight, when he got back he said that the dr had examined him, watched him walk and said he was fine and made him an appointment for 18 mths time.
They are saying that they diagnosed Parkinson's and sent a letter to the Gp.
This makes no sense to me, dad is perfectly lucid and would have taken in the diagnosis. My mum was waiting outside, surely she would have been called in for a discussion of some kind, it's got to be a fairly life changing diagnosis?
Since then he has seen the gp for Parkinson's type symptoms and has just had various blood tests with no diagnosis. Surely if they knew he had Parkinson's they would have mentioned it?
Just all makes no sense.
Have got a cancellation slot with the neurologist tomorrow to try and see what's happening but just wondered if it was the norm, if diagnosed at this age to just be sent away and left to ones own devices?