@Coops0406 same here my husband was laughing his head off at me in the car I must have yawned 20 times on the way to our appointment, it’s only 30mins away and I’d only been awake 2hrs! Makes me soooo sleepy.
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I ended up formally complaining to our GP surgery, we had a string of issues, first appointment we went to we were told they didn’t know anything about fertility that was it the couldn’t help us.
they gave my husband the wrong instructions for his sperm test, then lost his sample, but they had thrown it out, we were waiting 4 weeks for the results until I rang and found out they had messed it all up, the receptionist had Told my husband 2 weeks earlier that the results were in the lab and they were awaiting results. ( they had never been sent and they had no record of where the sample went)
we then redid the test they then told him his results were terrible, our consultant said they weren’t too bad.
they lost my smear. They sent off a sample for a test that didn’t exist anymore even though they had all my STI results, they then rang me telling me I shouldn’t have asked for it (I didn’t).
My husband had someone else’s medical records on his, said he smoked and has asthma ( neither of which he has ever done/had in his life)
I made a verbal complaint and the Dep manager about all this, they said they would look into it took a week and told us it was our fault, said at the bottom to the email well I’m going on holiday she sent the email at 5pm so I couldn’t respond, and didn’t copy the practice manger in.
The practice manager then said do you want to make a formal complaint in writing I’d literally written 12 emails to them about the issues but they still didn’t class that as a formal written complaint to follow up on!
so we are getting new GP.
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And then at the hospital they did a vaginal swab and used a vile with out of date substrates 🤣 asked me to come In for another.
I rang them told them I’m going private.
Bad Doctors make this whole process we are all going through ( which is unjust and unfair already) a mountain to climb.
I just lay this thick onto the surgery Managers via email and that they had to read it at the partner meeting. I pointed out that all i want is what I’m entitled to, and ethically they have a duty of care, that be physical or mental, they are my doctor they had the right to refuse me but they took me as their patient, and they are putting me through undue and unnecessary stress and anxiety over my medical issue, as I believe infertility is still classed as a medical condition is it not? And I would like the curtesy of the same treatment as if I had say a skin rash, just because it can’t be seen doesn’t mean it’s not there and can be ignored, nor does it mean it doesn’t effect my health if left untreated.
I did get a formal apology from the partners after I wrote that.