A&E dept didn’t give me a discharge letter and said they’d ring my Gp instead.
That didn’t happen.....I’ve a brilliant GP got a response from them.
The result of me going into A&E in the first place with chest pain radiating down my arms after having several GTN sprays over a couple of days ( I should’ve gone in earlier like I was advised to) thought it would go but wouldn’t shift.
Anyway..... the advice was to change one medication, brilliant I thought this one could be the one that helps..... wrong, it was one of just been taken off from as it wasn’t working well 🙄
Then it was an increase of a nitrate I take, again ...brilliant hallelujah I’m going to start to feel better.... wrong, they’d so called INCREASED it from 90mg to 90mg !!!!!!!!!! What!!!!!!!
So nothing has changed apart from going back to an old med.
Saw my Gp he’s actually increased my nitrate meds to 180mg and talking to cardiology about the other one, but having trouble getting to speak to one.
Luckily I do have a telephone conversation next week so hoping I can get a bit further as I want a bit more of my life back and have e this more in the background not in my face, so to speak.
Rant over sorry if I’ve bored you all but needed to come out 🥴😃
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I'm holding up reasonably well, thank-you for asking
Small tip for talking to the cardiologist on the phone - ask him if you can put him on speaker and is he ok with you to record the conversation on a small peripheral device (love-love-love my digital mini-recorder, and my cardiologist is happy to be recorded).
The recording is especially helpful - I have Essential Tremor and handwriting is not easy especially when feeling stressed. With the recording I can simply re-listen as needed to make sure I catch everything the cardiologist said during the telephone consult.
If your consultant seems hesitant about being recorded, simply tell him you want to be the best patient you can be and the recording will mean the difference between you missing vital information, and eliminate (hopefully) the need for follow-up calls for information you missed hearing in the phone consult. It worked with my cardiologist He was also reluctant to do email exchanges - at first, now he prefers the method!
You can tell him do you mind if I record the appointment over the phone as I suffer with a bit of brain fog . I think you will find he will be ok with this .
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