Nhs

[XTC]

Being a GP is all about referrals. They are fine if your baby has a cough or something, anything slightly more complex then then they are stumped.

[gingerjedi]

Nice doctor you've got.

10 years ago I had Stomach cramps and made an emergency appointment with him, he gave me antibiotics and said that he didn't feel that this was urgent enough to justify jumping the queue, a week later I was in hospital and had to have an endoscopy and colonoscopy to diagnose something that nearly killed me, I should have made a complaint about my GP but I was so pleased at getting things sorted out I let it go, so you could say he isn't my favourite person.

[wendigo100]

I can also feel the bones in my shoulder blade crunching if I rotate my arm to its extreme, when I saw my GP he just said something like "your getting older, what do you expect?"

Nice doctor you've got.

[gingerjedi]

It also worked on the agony in my shoulder (like toothache)...

I get that, I can also feel the bones in my shoulder blade crunching if I rotate my arm to its extreme, when I saw my GP he just said something like "your getting older, what do you expect?" I'm only 36 FFS! So how often do you take it and for how long? My symptoms seem to last about 3 months then go away again and then come back for another 3 months, exercise just seems to aggravate it.

[rootsnall]

Free health services come at a price, I'm beginning to find out. I've had a couple of ops on the NHS before and they've been pretty good, but then they have been pretty serious, fractures, dislocations etc I now have something less serious - Tennis elbow - and fark me dead, what a nightmare. Saw 2 different GPs 4 times, finally got a referral to see a specialist at an NHS hospital (Mile End - nice) had to wait 5 weeks, turned up to see the 'specialist' and she was a clinical assessor. Looked at my arm, "yes you need to see a specialist, we'll make an appointment for you to see someone in 6 weeks time." I'm getting serious deja vu here. So for almost 2 months now I've been virtually unable to use my right arm, I can't shave, brush my teeth or even w*nk with it. I've now seen 6 NHS professionals and still had no treatment so I've phoned up a private sports doctor this week and went and saw him, £180 to see him, £80 for xray, £40 for blood tests and I haven't been treated yet. God knows what that will cost. So if you don't have private health cover (like me) get it. TBH I would prefer to pay for a health service and have something that is quick and efficent without these massive waiting lists.

Rugby !? Stop doing any sport whatsoever and after a few years all your ailments go away. Sport is bad for you. Worked for me. Downside is you put a couple of stone on if you don't start eating rabbit food.

[XTC]

'King 'Eck.... sorry to here that.

Have you tried some anyway?

It's a useful painkiller as well as an anti-inflamatory.

Yeah Nurofen are a rugby players best friend.

[chef]

'King 'Eck.... sorry to here that.

Have you tried some anyway?

It's a useful painkiller as well as an anti-inflamatory.

.. says zeity as he purchases yet more shares in Glaxo Smithkline

[XTC]

Take ibuprofen (neurofen) and it may well go away.

That's all the GP advised me to do & it worked.

It also worked on the agony in my shoulder (like toothache)...

I just took the prescribed dose (as written on the box) for about a month (in fact until it started giving me terminal dispepsia).

Sorted.

Dunno what else, other than the steroid injection might be needed, but the ibuprofen avoids injections & these days you can't be too careful about that sort of thing.

Nah it's long past that stage, bone may be infected and might need operation if steriod injections don't work. Waiting on results from mri scan and blood tests.

[Burdock]

So for almost 2 months now I've been virtually unable to use my right arm, I can't shave, brush my teeth or even w*nk with it.

left-hand stroke?

[Clippy]

Yes and in between, if they are lucky, you will have croaked of whatever ailment you had thus reducing the waiting list further.

[BoredBloke]

But this is how the waiting lists have come down. What used to happen is that you would see your GP and then wait to see the specialist with any op following on from there. What they do now is insert another waiting list whereby you wait twice, each for half the time as the old wait - there you go, reduced waiting times to see a 'specialist'.

[XTC]

Free health services come at a price, I'm beginning to find out. I've had a couple of ops on the NHS before and they've been pretty good, but then they have been pretty serious, fractures, dislocations etc I now have something less serious - Tennis elbow - and fark me dead, what a nightmare. Saw 2 different GPs 4 times, finally got a referral to see a specialist at an NHS hospital (Mile End - nice) had to wait 5 weeks, turned up to see the 'specialist' and she was a clinical assessor. Looked at my arm, "yes you need to see a specialist, we'll make an appointment for you to see someone in 6 weeks time." I'm getting serious deja vu here. So for almost 2 months now I've been virtually unable to use my right arm, I can't shave, brush my teeth or even w*nk with it. I've now seen 6 NHS professionals and still had no treatment so I've phoned up a private sports doctor this week and went and saw him, £180 to see him, £80 for xray, £40 for blood tests and I haven't been treated yet. God knows what that will cost. So if you don't have private health cover (like me) get it. TBH I would prefer to pay for a health service and have something that is quick and efficent without these massive waiting lists.