I've been suffering a lot with my pregnancy, i'm 15 weeks in.
Still being sick 2-3 time a day, feeling nauseous with pains in my abdomen (achey/throbbing feelng) headaches, exhaustion, generally not sleeping well.
I've been told by the hospital my blood/urine results were abnormal and i'll be scanned every 4 weeks and i'm at higher risk of preeclampsia which a family member lost a baby and almost died herself with. I've been sick with worry from this too, even though I know I shouldn't!
On top of this my boss has really been working against me, penalising me for being pregnant and I've got to hand in a formal grievance.
I've felt it's been a bit too much over the weekend and like i'm falling apart mentally as well as physically.
I made the decision that I would go to the doctors, I explained how I was feeling to the doc and he kept going back to my work problems (they are pretty serious) and asking me pretty irrelevant question about the structure at work and then giving me advice on what action to take - I told him i'm in a union and they are helping me with that. He then commented that perhaps I would be better off if I lost my job and I should view that as an opportunity to work else where.
I felt pretty awkward. He asked me what I wanted him to do about it (the way I was feeling)! I said I felt like I probably needed some time to sort myself out and pull everything back together as I'm clearly not coping. The doc agreed and wrote me a sick note.
The sick note reads 'Stress at work' I asked the doctor about adding 'in pregnancy' to the end and he said that in his mind he believes the problem to be stress at work and was unwilling to relate it to pregnancy.
I'm now feeling even worse as if I were to hand that in they could potentially discipline me or even use it as a legitimate reason to select me for redundancy at a later date which I really would not be surprised at.
Has anyone had problems with sick notes before? Is there anything I can do short of going back to work which I really don't feel capable of at the moment?
All suggestions gratefully received
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Katiekins86 · 02/03/2015 12:38
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