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ive got an ongoing problem with my left knee, inwhich it swells and retains fluid… i am awaiting an MIR after attending the physio and consultates since June 04… and have been off my work since then… I havent been given whats the problem etc….
over the weekend my knee really flared up to the extent I knew the only opition was to go up to A n E and get the fluid drawn from it ( already had this done 5 times and honestly the last resort as effin agnoyin)
so I went up, waited for 40 mins… had to get helped as couldnt really walk. The Nurse whom was booking me in to see someone, listen to my explanation of what has happened. Inwhich she interupted me and said ‘ Its an ongoing problem you have there not an acciendent or emergancy that I was to call NHS 24 direct to get booked in to see a Doctor.
I honestly could not believe what I was being told. I could hardly walk you can see the siZe of my knee was like an elephants knee..!!! the pain is excruiating but they would not see me..!! so out I went .. called NHS 24 direct to be told that I should go to A and E…. went back up again…. and refused treatment yet again….
so now im heading to my own Doctors to find out whom do I see..??
anybody else been told anything like this before..??@abitofmary_j wrote:
ive got an ongoing problem with my left knee, inwhich it swells and retains fluid… i am awaiting an MIR after attending the physio and consultates since June 04… and have been off my work since then… I havent been given whats the problem etc….
over the weekend my knee really flared up to the extent I knew the only opition was to go up to A n E and get the fluid drawn from it ( already had this done 5 times and honestly the last resort as effin agnoyin)
so I went up, waited for 40 mins… had to get helped as couldnt really walk. The Nurse whom was booking me in to see someone, listen to my explanation of what has happened. Inwhich she interupted me and said ‘ Its an ongoing problem you have there not an acciendent or emergancy that I was to call NHS 24 direct to get booked in to see a Doctor.
I honestly could not believe what I was being told. I could hardly walk you can see the siZe of my knee was like an elephants knee..!!! the pain is excruiating but they would not see me..!! so out I went .. called NHS 24 direct to be told that I should go to A and E…. went back up again…. and refused treatment yet again….
so now im heading to my own Doctors to find out whom do I see..??
anybody else been told anything like this before..??Mary, try some of this I’ve heard from a nutritionist it really works.
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Sorry to hear that, but have no real advice to offer. All I can say is that I always start with the NHS Direct (unless I think Im dying lol), and take it from there. At least you normally get to see a practitioner who can prescribe pain killing meds and get you on the right road to the appropriate treatment,
Im put of A and E having spent many a night there with the kids and really only about 70% of the time it was a genuine emergency. Most of the time is sat watching others being seen before you, or just walking in and going straight to cubicles (as if someone knows there coming because they pre booked before arrival), and watching beered up blokes who have been glassed and are mouthing off infront of kiddies (that really pis*es me off!!)
So, I try and assess if we can possibly either put the visit off, or go to the walk in centre instead. Have you one of those near you, my last experience of using it was really good, much better than A&E)?
Contact your local MP.
A/E should have been the last place you went to not the first.
The first port of call should have been your GP surgery which would have given you an Out of Hours number which would have enabled you to access a walk in centre (or maybe even a home visit!!).
NHSD are pretty worthless when it comes to anything other than routine, general stuff.
Sorry Mary but I agree with the A/E receptionist- it wasn’t an accident and it wasn’t an emergency- that doesnt mean it wasnt very painful or immobilising as clearly it was, there are just more appropriate pathways you could have gone down
@slayer wrote:
A/E should have been the last place you went to not the first.
The first port of call should have been your GP surgery which would have given you an Out of Hours number which would have enabled you to access a walk in centre (or maybe even a home visit!!).
NHSD are pretty worthless when it comes to anything other than routine, general stuff.
Sorry Mary but I agree with the A/E receptionist- it wasn’t an accident and it wasn’t an emergency- that doesnt mean it wasnt very painful or immobilising as clearly it was, there are just more appropriate pathways you could have gone down
Slayer, excuse me spelling it was a treage nurse whom refused me treatment or to be seen by a doctor. lol fiddler for correctness lol
ive been to see my own doctor yesterday, and she’s putting in formal complaints, as she actually sent me back up to A n E to get the fluid drawn, as she said I should never of been refused treatment the only optune was to get the fluid drawn, inwhich has happened and OMG THE PAIN… BUT ATLEAST IM ABLE TO WALK… oopps caps.
Slayer I went to A n E because everytime this has happened before I get sent up to get the fluid drawn. I told this nurse that, and still refused treatment, sent over to NHS 24 and sent back to A n E, inwhich i didnt go back as thought ill see my own doctor to see where or whom I should actually go to. For which i got sent back to A n E and got treatment… fair enough 2 days later.
It’s as much an emergency as some of the w ankers that get in A & E from fighting , drunks , drugs etc MAry has every right to go there
You have my sympathy – having had 1 aspiration to get fluid off my knee when I was at school – I wouldn’t like another – it’s booody excrucating pain
@slayer wrote:
A/E should have been the last place you went to not the first.
The first port of call should have been your GP surgery which would have given you an Out of Hours number which would have enabled you to access a walk in centre (or maybe even a home visit!!).
NHSD are pretty worthless when it comes to anything other than routine, general stuff.
Sorry Mary but I agree with the A/E receptionist- it wasn’t an accident and it wasn’t an emergency- that doesnt mean it wasnt very painful or immobilising as clearly it was, there are just more appropriate pathways you could have gone down
actually ur wrong.a walk in centre or normal gp cannot draw fluid from the knee. it has to be done in A n E. my hubby had the same problem as mary…..and was told that when he had a flare up and his knee swelled he was to go straight to An E and have the fliud drained. he had an MIR and eventually had what the surgeon called *spurs*…..peices of bone growing at the back of his kneecap……….removed. he hasnt had a problem since the surgery.
@pats wrote:
@slayer wrote:
A/E should have been the last place you went to not the first.
The first port of call should have been your GP surgery which would have given you an Out of Hours number which would have enabled you to access a walk in centre (or maybe even a home visit!!).
NHSD are pretty worthless when it comes to anything other than routine, general stuff.
Sorry Mary but I agree with the A/E receptionist- it wasn’t an accident and it wasn’t an emergency- that doesnt mean it wasnt very painful or immobilising as clearly it was, there are just more appropriate pathways you could have gone down
actually ur wrong.a walk in centre or normal gp cannot draw fluid from the knee. it has to be done in A n E. my hubby had the same problem as mary…..and was told that when he had a flare up and his knee swelled he was to go straight to An E and have the fliud drained. he had an MIR and eventually had what the surgeon called *spurs*…..peices of bone growing at the back of his kneecap……….removed. he hasnt had a problem since the surgery.
PATS… i have these lumps that float around my knee, ive been banging my head off walls trying to get something done about my knee, but im not classed as a prioerty… inwhich i think i am, im off my work due to my knee and on incapity benfients… when i could of surely had my knee fixed by now and back saving MollyMaid…!!!
ive been waiting 6 weeks for this MIR scan was told it could be up to 15 weeks…!!
@pats wrote:
@slayer wrote:
A/E should have been the last place you went to not the first.
The first port of call should have been your GP surgery which would have given you an Out of Hours number which would have enabled you to access a walk in centre (or maybe even a home visit!!).
NHSD are pretty worthless when it comes to anything other than routine, general stuff.
Sorry Mary but I agree with the A/E receptionist- it wasn’t an accident and it wasn’t an emergency- that doesnt mean it wasnt very painful or immobilising as clearly it was, there are just more appropriate pathways you could have gone down
actually ur wrong.a walk in centre or normal gp cannot draw fluid from the knee. it has to be done in A n E. my hubby had the same problem as mary…..and was told that when he had a flare up and his knee swelled he was to go straight to An E and have the fliud drained. he had an MIR and eventually had what the surgeon called *spurs*…..peices of bone growing at the back of his kneecap……….removed. he hasnt had a problem since the surgery.
Completely agree PATS but the Out of Hours Gp or walk in centre would have then referred Mary to A/E and she would have been treated as a referral rather than a self referrer.
I didnt say the system wasn’t bollo/x, i just said what the system was :lol: It full of bureaucracy and red tape which actually stops people getting treated.
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