Can we have a thread on ridiculous things GP's have said?

[Butmummysnotanearlybird]

My contribution was "Oh well baby needs to know what sick tastes like" when they actually had CMPA and reflux. I'm sure there's worse out there 🙃

One of the doctors at our practice states that people below 25 don't get OC as they're 'too young' he's an absolute fucking bellend and needs his medical license removed.

Same doctor also says that people who suffer with fibromyalgia actually don't and it's a made up illness and in their head... how he still works there I do not know.

Oh I forgot that someone I know needs a private medical each year for their work. The same bellend doctor phoned them and said 'I don't need to see you, I'll just tick it off for you'...
Oh and someone who has diabetes he said to them 'I don't need to take your bloods. You had them a year ago. Not much would've changed in a year' wtf. You couldn't make it up. The thing is people have complained about him to the relevant people but he's still there.

It was an OOH’s GP last year, I went because I’d been diagnosed with cellulitis behind my ear and after finishing 10 days worth of flucloxacillin, the swelling had come right back up again in the early hours of a Sunday morning. When I saw him, he looked behind my ear and said ‘I don’t understand why that hasn’t been knocked on the head with the flucloxacillin?! Hmm, are you diabetic?’, to which I replied no as I’m not. He insisted I was (despite no symptoms and him accessing my previous h1abc blood test results; I have them semi regularly because I have PCOS and my DDad is diabetic) and ordered a blood test with my GP surgery to check. He then gave me another course of flucloxacillin and sent me on my way. Had the blood test and my usual GP said ‘I don’t know what he’s on about, your blood sugar is super low!’. Anyway, turned out it wasn’t even cellulitis, it was mastoiditis and several doctors misdiagnosed that, too! 😫 I’ve also had a GP tell me to ‘just take ibuprofen’ when I complained of a constant headache that had lasted for 4 months, that I’d already been trying to get rid of with ibuprofen 🙄 I asked if it could be connected to my low iron and he said ‘No, there is nothing wrong with your iron levels’. Turned out they were only 3 points above the minimum range and when I took iron tablets I bought over the counter, the headache went after 2 weeks! 🤦🏻‍♀️

I was once told that my migraines are in my head and because no medication works would I like counseling?

I was put on something else (that by the sounds of things they're reluctant to prescribe) and it worked.

It was argued that because I have a "normal" MRI scan there's nothing wrong. Yes normal for me. I have 2 rare neurological conditions, both of which can cause migraine.

The optician told me to get a full checkup, to see if I had high blood pressure, high cholesterol or diabetes, because she was concerned about changes in blood vessels on one retina:

Gp - “You haven’t got diabetes!”

Me - “How do we know that? I haven’t had a blood test for 4 years! Who knows if it could have come on, in the meantime?”

Stop taking the prescribed iron tablets (when still borderline aneamic) and eat chicken livers instead (I'm vegetarian) needless to say I'm now aneamic again

When I said I was suffering from health anxiety, he pointed out that I'd be right one day and would die. He probably had a fair point. He added "GPs can suffer from health anxiety too" just to confuse things further.

I felt slightly badly as he stopped being a GP a few years' later which I felt ever so slightly responsible for.

Forgot to add, when I said my greatest worry was leaving my kids without a mother, he told me they'd be absolutely fine lol.

Told to shake my head vigorously. It was an MS relapse. Rock n roll ain’t gonna fix it.

One GP diagnosed dd with mumps. She had swollen glands low down in her neck. I asked wouldn’t the swelling be nearer her face/chin if it were mumps, and she said no. I asked how she could have caught mumps as she hadn’t been anywhere except school and nobody else had it. She said “Mumps is not a contagious illness. It’s something you have in the back of your nose, and then one random day it gets triggered and becomes the disease.”
I wrote a formal complaint to the surgery suggesting this GP go back to the books and do some learning. I think she was confusing mumps with meningitis. She was adamant it was mumps, notified PHE and ordered us a test kit. It was negative, obviously.

Going to see my Gp a few days after receiving bad news at my 20 week scan that meant we were offered a termination and awaited forther tests.. I was asking for a sick line for work.
His answer.. " only once rthe baby is dead"

@Fluffluff, that's terrible.