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Ridiculous aftercare

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Nona11 · 07/01/2015 21:59

Anyone else delt with insensitive nhs staff?
On Monday I had missed misscarige confirmed and was sent home to pass naturally. I was told if I bled through a pad within an hour I had to ring in. I was out at the time so rang 111 expecting to be given the early pregnancy unit number again they just told me to go straight to urgent care. After explaining my situation, correcting my name and location 3 times.
Once I got there and was examined I heard the nurse talking to her a colleague saying "I have no idea why she's come to us"
Erm cos you're bloody help line told me to!!
To be perfectly honest I hate hospitals so I didn't come in for the fun of it.
Fine if you think a patient is wrong to come in but don't have that conversation right out side the door!Angry

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Greyhound · 07/01/2015 23:22

So sorry for the loss of your baby ThanksI

Yes, I have been treated insensitively too - it only makes things worse Sad

Kerfy101 · 08/01/2015 11:46

Me too hun, it makes everything even harder.
I ended up in hospital with a massive bleed. I was supposed to have surgery but didnt have it at the last minute, i over heard the nurse say we cant leave her like this ( i was in agony) i had 7 D&C's (i'm guessing it was this was never told but it was a painfull internal procedure, i was woke up through the night to have them) This was six months ago, i started to miscarry again last night, i'm heartbroken and so scared that i will end up in hospital. I rang my Gp who advised to go about my daily routine as usually and take a pregnanct test in 10 Days!!

debz24 · 09/01/2015 12:27

I had the same care! I went to the hospital with bleeding the doctor tried to make out my tests were false positives. We then had to wait until 3.30 in the mormorning to be told "oh yes you are pregnant" which I already knew. We had an appointment for epu the next day. So we had positive outlook thinking everything was ok and my bleeding was normal. We were also advised to go back to a&e if bleeding got worse (which it did). Back to a&e the next day made out we were stupid and over excarating everything and made to wait in waiting rooms without someone speaking to us until our appointment. How ridiculous and insensitive. Then we had it conformed by midwife we had lost our baby. I went to the doctors 3 days later for help of being depressed and she told me to go home and try for another baby. Like that's what we wanted. We just needed some coping measures. So your not the only one let down by the nhs and they are meant to help us in our hours of need and they can't get that right. I'm sorry to hear about your lose and I am to feeling let down by professionals !

stickingpoint2 · 12/01/2015 17:50

All the sympathy from me as it is so painfully lacking in hospital.
It is a very sad fact that there just isn't 'a place' for mc in hospital / nhs care.
My first mc I was bleeding very heavily on the day of my check up scan. They were concerned about the blood loss. They kept me in a waiting room. Then it came to the end of epu hours. I was still bleeding and had got heaps worse. They took me from epu to A&E and the midwife insisted to A&E I had to be there (blood loss was through clothing and bedding by this point). I started to ramble I'd rather go home.
Then my blood pressure started to do weird things (possibly due to all this debate about whose problem i was).
I spent 4 hours in A&E. The bleeding slowed. The clots stopped. So they sent me home with a would have been f8ne at home attitude.
I will NEVER voluntarily use that A&E dept again.

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