A local lawyer? And medical negligence advice

[Mharhi]

Would it be best to have a local lawyer who I could take eg. medical notes into to discuss, or one recommended to me (by a professional and friend who has worked on cases with)

Also if anyone would like to comment on whether this is clinical negligence or not,

Had lipoma in colon found in 2008, not properly informed, consultant told me 'we have found a lesion, don't think it's anything to worry about it's not causing problems and we're not going to do anything about it' Follow up letter to GP (discovered through getting copy of my hospital notes) states they think it's nothing to worry about, biopsies suggestive of lipoma, if symptoms worsen we could refer for CT...

Last year, have since moved GP, just got copies of record from there, "Polypoid lesion probably lipoma' is listed in their system as pre-existing medical condition,

The main symptom these cause is pain, then bleeding, serious complications such as perforation, no clinical guidance on these, are quite rare in area it was.

Started getting pains, then bleeding, went to docs no-one checked records, I did mention previous colonoscopy but that I thought it had all been ok. (as i did) however they are the expecrts and had the info on their system.

Eventually had to go to A and E with complications which are life-threatening after a day or two, due lack of blood supply. They didn't check previous records / medical history either, though this again was probably compounded bu me being unable to tell them much info, was also doped up on Tramadol and in a lot of pain at time. Sent me home. Had to have big operation nearly two weeks later, fever, swollen abdomen, think sepsis had started. At hospital had been told needed to go home, there were no available slots to examine me. GP to monitor, however they didn't ring or anything.

So anyway since that, a few months ago, I've had problems with small bowel obstruction caused by adhesions, this looks like an ongoing problem although I'm not sure. It would be wonderful not to be. However it seems once you have it it comes back or worse after an op to remove it.

I think I wouldn't have it or not to this extent if it had been diagnosed sooner that the lipoma was causing problems, it could have been removed before it started causing serious complications which meant I had to have a partial colectomy (which is one of the worst risk ops for small bowel obsruction afterwards apparently) Also with sepsis / fever adhesions are worse.

I'm so upset about this, it could even have been removed endoscopically when first found, but I suppose it wasn't causing problems then. there is no clinical guidance to use as a benchmark.

Any advice welcome. And thanks for reading.

[Mharhi]

Hi again sorry back to this again!

I had my complaint reply back from the hospital and basically it hasn't replied to most of it (as explained in my original message in this post)

they have then turned it back on me, said they did inform me and I should have then told them in A and E about my previous condition.

I'm not sure what to do now. Any advice welcome.

[Mharhi]

Also there seems to be come confusion over what size it was when found. In the response it says it was 2-3cm and they would not have considered removing it endoscopically. However the histology report says it was 'very small' and in my follow up after Christmas I was told it was 1-2cm. (it makes a difference as the literature suggests removing them under 2cm is safe by endoscope and would have meant no op for me).