Who's finding the NHS very hard work??????

[kill]

I have tried to see him privately and have spoken to his secretary on several occasions. I have to go back to the hospital for a steroid IV drip this afternoon to see if that helps or rules out certain conditions and see the consultant again on 9th of April but they just don't understand at all about being self employed and neither do doctors.
Trouble is the pain just won't ease and is progressively getting worse despite taking pain killers, anti inflammatory drugs and anti depressants

Well, i saw rheumatologist on 9th of April and he said I need to see my local orthopaedic surgeon to discuss further treatment, so I offered to pay privately to speed things up and was told I'd be contacted within a week. Orthopaedics secretary phoned yesterday and said they do have an appointment in early July if I still wanta pay privately.
What a fantastic service. NOT

 

[8100]

I have had my HIP operation called off again and a local chap went in hospital after a fall and contracted a real bad infection which near saw him off .So im glad my opp was cancelled

 

[Courier]

When I suggested to the practise nurse that the NHS should make a nominal charge for a doctors visit (£20 ? unless on benefits or under 12 as in NZ) she was adamant that would be privatisation.
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[suffolksmallholder]

GUTH has obviously never experienced a major personal or close family injury/disaster/accident. He would have a VERY DIFFERENT attitude if this was so. The NHS has its faults for routine matters but it's free, is often slow, but it works. In the case of a serious accident it is utterly faultless. You are whisked off & put back together without fuss or fanfare.
Don't knock what you don't know!
SS

 

[Courier]

NHS is now a complete and utter waste of time ( sadly )

You are just a number to them, all they care about is signing off that they have seen you so they can hit targets and secure their next round of funding.

TBH the only way now if you have chronic problems is to go private.

And when something goes wrong at the private hospital they send you straight to NHS (A & E) because BUPA etc. don't have the full range of facilities.

 

[Princess Pooper]

In the last year I have seen a consultant rheumatologist every 8 weeks, had 2 echocardiograms, 2 x ECGs, a routine cervical smear test, 2 sets of lung function tests, 2 chest x rays, 3 GP appts & 2 phone calls, 14 routine healthcare assistant blood tests, a foot MRI, spent 4 hrs in a specialist pulmonary hypertension centre, 2 colonoscopies, am booked for a 24 hour ECG tape, 2 podiatry visits, 2 sight tests and I am awaiting a cataract operation. I have had hundreds of pounds worth of medication for the massive sum of just over £100 for a prepayment prescription plus paying my share of taxation. Every member of staff that I have met has treated me with respect and care. I hope I have treated them the same.

No the NHS is not very hard work. It's bloomin' marvellous. I'm not saying it can't be improved - even without extra funding - but massive improvements are already being made.

 

[RobFZS]

Cow Crushed me against some machinery a couple weeks back and i had to be airlifted to hospital, broke 5 ribs but didn't need any surgery, landed at 2 in the afternoon and managed to get myself in good enough order to be out at 9 pm to go home, so in all it was a successful experience, the downfall seems to be the rafts and rafts of elderly people with nowhere to go back to from what i could gather form the people around me bed blocking, dunno how the state is going to fix that , nor do i know why private agencies are being used to supply porters?

I bet the nhs is hard work if you're not on the high list of demands though, because there will always be someone in greater need than you and they never stop coming

 

[Princess Pooper]

Cow Crushed me against some machinery a couple weeks back and i had to be airlifted to hospital, broke 5 ribs but didn't need any surgery, landed at 2 in the afternoon and managed to get myself in good enough order to be out at 9 pm to go home, so in all it was a successful experience, the downfall seems to be the rafts and rafts of elderly people with nowhere to go back to from what i could gather form the people around me bed blocking, dunno how the state is going to fix that , nor do i know why private agencies are being used to supply porters?

I bet the nhs is hard work if you're not on the high list of demands though, because there will always be someone in greater need than you and they never stop coming

Agree about the bed blocking - had this problem with fr in law he had an extra week in hospital after he broke a femur (and then got norovirus) because they could not find a care package provider for him to go home - in the end he then had a further 2 weeks in a nursing home which he loathed, but at least it freed the hospital bed up. Sadly it also works the other way - he was discharged too early on two other visits - on one occasion he actually had a heart attack just before he was discharged (we had him back in an ambulance within 2 hrs of him coming home) and then after he had heart surgery he was discharged despite us raising concerns about his condition and he was back in another hospital within 24 hrs.
This one is a big nut to crack - social care is the elephant in the room which is starting to be talked about at long last.

 

[RushesToo]

In the last year I have seen a consultant rheumatologist every 8 weeks, had 2 echocardiograms, 2 x ECGs, a routine cervical smear test, 2 sets of lung function tests, 2 chest x rays, 3 GP appts & 2 phone calls, 14 routine healthcare assistant blood tests, a foot MRI, spent 4 hrs in a specialist pulmonary hypertension centre, 2 colonoscopies, am booked for a 24 hour ECG tape, 2 podiatry visits, 2 sight tests and I am awaiting a cataract operation. I have had hundreds of pounds worth of medication for the massive sum of just over £100 for a prepayment prescription plus paying my share of taxation. Every member of staff that I have met has treated me with respect and care. I hope I have treated them the same.

No the NHS is not very hard work. It's bloomin' marvellous. I'm not saying it can't be improved - even without extra funding - but massive improvements are already being made.

@Princess Pooper You, your highness Princess Pooper, exemplify why I don't begrudge paying for the NHS. Without it you would have no farm, business or life, and I might be in your shoes. It is the cheapest insurance for health in the western world.

 

[Princess Pooper]

@Princess Pooper You, your highness Princess Pooper, exemplify why I don't begrudge paying for the NHS. Without it you would have no farm, business or life, and I might be in your shoes. It is the cheapest insurance for health in the western world.

And to look at me most folks would thing there's nothing wrong (although a medic would spot a few things)!

 

[Old Boar]

Friend had a fall and injured her back, they are talking disk problems. She has a numb leg and is a lot of pain. An MRI was suggested as a way forward, but she was told there would be at least 4 months wait. She decided to pay for a private one, and this is happening tomorrow. She is not well off, but the pain is constant and the risk of injuring herself further is high.
Another friend with a suspected heart attack is waiting for an angiogram, but there are no specialist heart facilities in the whole county. She has now been waiting 10 weeks and still has not heard. Going private was mentioned but she cannot afford it.
The cracks are getting wider...

 

[kill]

Friend had a fall and injured her back, they are talking disk problems. She has a numb leg and is a lot of pain. An MRI was suggested as a way forward, but she was told there would be at least 4 months wait. She decided to pay for a private one, and this is happening tomorrow. She is not well off, but the pain is constant and the risk of injuring herself further is high.
Another friend with a suspected heart attack is waiting for an angiogram, but there are no specialist heart facilities in the whole county. She has now been waiting 10 weeks and still has not heard. Going private was mentioned but she cannot afford it.
The cracks are getting wider...

My back pain got even worst yesterday and I was taken by hospital by ambulance after having morphine and gas and air with a suspected compressed vertebrae and admitted to A&E and after a 4 hour wait in excruciating back spasms I was given a massive dose of strong pain killers by a method I won't mention and more morphine and told by the doctor we have no beds and the drugs will get you home again to which I asked "what do I do when the pain comes back?" And I was just told that won't be our problem by the doctor!!
both my legs were totally like jelly and still in pain and it took nearly half an hour to walk 30 metres to my ride home.
My original thread title is still very appropriate

 

[Old Boar]

Not acceptable! Sorry for your horrible day. I hope things are easing now.

 

[kill]

Not acceptable! Sorry for your horrible day. I hope things are easing now.

Yesterday's strong pain killers are now worn off and my wife's picking up morphine in the morning that my doctor kindly prescribed. Tramadol won't touch the pain

 

[puppet]

Yesterday's strong pain killers are now worn off and my wife's picking up morphine in the morning that my doctor kindly prescribed. Tramadol won't touch the pain

If your pain is worse and legs not working properly or any bladder problem then speak to your gp again

 

[Old Boar]

How is it today @kill ?

 

[kill]

How is it today @kill ?

I need a stick to walk at all. Have Naproxen, oral morphine, tramadol, paracetamol and amitriptyline to take but the pains still well sharp at times. Both legs are numb and ting-a-ling with pins and needles feeling and every where below my belly button is the same!.
But had a real break through yesterday as my chiropractor rang after looking at my MRI from February after I'd paid for a copy from my hospital on his request and he found I have a bulged disc at the bottom of my spine that needs shaving via a microdiscectomy operation on my spine even tho 2 consultants and several doctors had missed it.
Seeing a Orthopaedic surgeon on Wednesday for an appointment that's taken 3 month's to get privately!!!!!! Feck knows what the NHS wait would have been!!!!! But if they can operate and take the pressure off my spinal cord so I hope that will help.
And my GP has got me in for blood tests on Monday.

 

[Old Boar]

Glad you are getting somewhere. Take it easy until you have seen the surgeon. Best wishes.

 

[kill]

Glad you are getting somewhere. Take it easy until you have seen the surgeon. Best wishes.

Thanks

 

[milkloss]

I need a stick to walk at all. Have Naproxen, oral morphine, tramadol, paracetamol and amitriptyline to take but the pains still well sharp at times. Both legs are numb and ting-a-ling with pins and needles feeling and every where below my belly button is the same!.
But had a real break through yesterday as my chiropractor rang after looking at my MRI from February after I'd paid for a copy from my hospital on his request and he found I have a bulged disc at the bottom of my spine that needs shaving via a microdiscectomy operation on my spine even tho 2 consultants and several doctors had missed it.
Seeing a Orthopaedic surgeon on Wednesday for an appointment that's taken 3 month's to get privately!!!!!! Feck knows what the NHS wait would have been!!!!! But if they can operate and take the pressure off my spinal cord so I hope that will help.
And my GP has got me in for blood tests on Monday.

Wouldn't be surprised if the MRI wasn't current enough for the ortho to use now

I'm honestly shocked how long it's taking for you even when private.

Wishing you a good recovery.