Hi all, apologies in advance as this might be a long one.
Some of you may remember my post a few months ago about my Dr insisting all my asthma problems were due to the dog I lived with (shockingly I moved house away from the dog and feel absolutely no different..). The same Dr has now discharged me back to my GP care, which I’m not happy with. I’ll summarise some of the issues that have really bothered me below- I’d appreciate advice re whether this is reason to complain or not.
- it seems like none of my medical info got passed to my new consultant when I moved back from Uni - ie no data on my hospital admissions. I was not asked to shield despite taking 5 meds a day with a history of hospital admissions etc.
- my current consultant made several mistakes in a letter she wrote to my GP about my situation - including writing that my asthma doesn’t affect my sleep (it does) and stating that I live in uni halls (I don’t), so I feel like she didn’t listen to a word I said during our phone appointment prior to this
- she discharged me before I was due to have my lung function test (I was literally in the waiting room when she called me lol) so has no real info to support her claim that my health is now “stable”. How can you discharge someone and claim they’re fine without looking at their lung function results?
- I always feel uncomfortable around GPs bc my asthma is a little odd - I usually don’t wheeze and can walk and talk even with low O2 - so I’m apprehensive about being shoved back into gp care after several bad experiences of my health problems being ignored
- honestly I’m pretty convinced that now I don’t live with a dog, my Dr assumes my health is fine when it’s really not any different than before. She started our most recent phone call saying “you feel better in this new accommodation yes?” Without giving me a chance to speak
- the only reason I think I haven’t needed any steroids or hospital admission for a year now is because I haven’t had a cold - which is because I’ve basically been voluntarily shielding. Usually as soon as I get any sort of viral infection I end up in hospital. I think it’s a bit unwise of the doctor to bin me off back to the gp without any sort of tailing off (maybe with less frequent appointments with her?) just to check I’m ok.
Sorry this is all muddled - honestly I’m really annoyed about it all and don’t feel safe or comfortable with her decision. Any help or advice would be appreciated!