I'm being messed around by the NHS

[Marktheghost]

I had an appointment with my doctor yesterday, where I asked about occupational therapy. I mentioned that the hospital I go to does it.

He told me I'd been discharged from that hospital in May!

I pointed out to him that I was supposed to have had an appointment there in October (I'd missed the appointment because I was on holiday), but he still seemed to think I'd been discharged in May.

It's possible that he's just got his information wrong; but it seems likely that the hospital have discharged me and never even bothered to let me know!; and offered me an appointment 5 months later which would have been a complete waste of time! Did they give me that appointment just to tell me, 5 months later, that I'd been discharged or what?

The people at that hospital seem totally uninterested in helping me! They never do anything to help me. They're absolutely useless! So it wouldn't surprise me at all.

 

[JustAMatterOfTime]

Was it because of corona virus? My shoulder got some nerve stuck in it and I was meant to get physical therapy but because of the corona they just cancelled it, it got better by itself eventually anyway but they were cancelling even important things like you said.

 

[Marktheghost]

As far as I know it wasn't.

 

[Rn110bg101]

Did you try calling them (the hospital)?

 

[Cockney_Rebel]

"I'm being messed around by the NHS"

... join the club!

"The people at that hospital seem totally uninterested in helping me! They never do anything to help me. They're absolutely useless!"

... welcome to my world!

 

[mediocre]

If you need specialist treatment on the NHS you don't stand a chance. I have had the exact same issues just trying to see a bloody podiatrist. Seen him once said to call him back for another appointment but discharged me instead. Then you have to go to your GP again and be referred again and wait months AGAIN.

Seeing a different doctor privately now which has not been great either the only upside is you get seen quicker. The way you get treated is still pretty appalling.

Anybody who says the NHS is something to be proud of is a grade A asshole, They've obviously never had any serious health issues. The health system is a complete disaster.

 

[signifying nothing]

It's almost as if you have to do them a favour to get something in return.

 

[WornOutLife]

NHS sucks so much.
How on earth can we get better or recover if the treat us like this?

 

[TooConscious]

It's disgusting and so sad. Every now and then you get a petty circumstance like a genuine mistake computer or clerical or the receptionist doesn't like my voice or appearance.
The elite are in and to hurt/kill some of us off I got discharged which meant a medication stopped and this medication is well known that once you start treatment it's lifelong, that's the extent of obviousness they go to to destroy me and nobody listens.

Good luck. Hope you got it sorted.

 

[Grave]

Yeah, join the club. Mental health waiting lists are over a year where I am, and even if you get through, the treatment is shit, CBT with an annoying therapist and they seem to refuse to give medication, in my experience anyway, even though when they eventually yielded after my many suicide attempts it actually helped quite a lot (though they took me off it because I overdosed on it and they don't seem to have any plans to let me get back on it).

 

[JustAnumber]

Unfortunately the NHS is slowly dying . The resources they have to deal with problems keeps getting taken away bit by bit. You can't reduce resources that are needed while increasing the drain on the resources that are no longer available. Slowly but surely the NHS is disappearing and no one really seems to care anymore. Sorry to hear about what you are going through but rest assured it is happening to 1000s of other people too. Look at the waiting list caused by the covid 19 restrictions( over 5 million now I believe) I may be wrong but I believe that dosnt include the figures to do with the problems with mental health either.
This is probably wrong of me to say but now a days we are nothing more then just numbers on a peice of paper.
Unfortunately it wasn't a number that wrote this reply!

 

[loopylou]

Me too! I have had IBS quite bad for around 18 months. Hospitalised twice from the pain of it. Past discharge I thought there would be a follow up, waited all this fine to find out I hadn't been referred to a gastroenterologist and now I have. Then I was speaking to an online doctor and he recommended I have a bacteria test as that's likely the course and now I'm GP is considering it