Finally had a face to face with my cardiologist

[Challenger2009]

Yesterday after a long frustrating wait, I finally got a face to face meeting with my cardiologist I also took my wife to try and get through to the cardiologist how bad my issues are and how much it is affecting my day to day life.

Got to say it was hard work due to her being so dismissive of things and coming away with things like is she had a cure for everyone who came through the doors and was tired and everyone gets some chest pain, I don't just get tired doing something I get absolutely whacked and these chest pains are not like wee niggles.

I have already had an angogram back in July and this showed I had a completely blocked rca but had a collateral arteri going round it some blockages in my other arteries and a suggnicant liason on one.

I also attended a treadmill test for the DVLA at the start of December and despite speaking to this cardiologists secretary three times before Christmas to find out if I had passed or not when I mentioned to her yesterday she had forgotten to fill the paperwork out due to being off on compassionate leave and the size of her workload.

She then said would look at my heart scan my reply to this was you have not given me one despite my doctor and the A@E doctor referring me back to cardiology to have one oh she said I will send you right away and this showed I have another arterie apparently to left that is completely narrowed and has quite a bit of disease apparently it is on the left but ware it sits it would be difficult to stent or ballon due to access and it's condition.

she has said she is going to give me additional medication to add to what I currently take and up my bisporol, give it two weeks and if no improvement take it to the medical team and see what the next step will be.

I also as suspected failed my treadmill test on the 7th of December and have temporarily lost my HGV entitlement she informed me of this yesterday at the meeting aswell.

She was very apologetic that we have had to fight to get to see her, I just hope now I finally get somewhere and try and get some normality back .

Sorry for the long post.

[Hidden]

Hello

Congratulations on finally getting a face to face appointment

I hope your wife is a little more understanding now that you do have some problems as it does help if we have a partner for them to be supportive

There seems a fea errors in losing your results which I know sometimes cannot be helped but devastating for us when we have been waiting for the results

I hope the new medications now help and you start to feel better x

[Challenger2009 in reply to Hidden]

Apologies be kind I meant took the wife to help get the cardiologist to understand about my issues, fortunately the wife is very understanding thanks for the reply.

[Hidden in reply to Challenger2009]

O sorry I was a bit took back as we wifes usually are so good if I say so myself

Well I am glad she came with you and spoke up and gave you moral support , we so need it I think at these appointments

And yes men are a good support to I always say at appointments when I am telling them something and my Husband is there tell then]m I am right and he does x

[10gingercats]

Reading your post I felt really peeved on your behalf. It does not sound to me as if your cardiologist is looking after you very well. Yes. i know they are busy etc etc but part of her job is to do all the paperwork and to be up to speed with it all before you sit in front of her And complaing about patients and her not having all the anwers is not the kind of thing you should be hearing from her .I would not be happy with this person being in charge of my heart health.

[ChoochSiesta in reply to 10gingercats]

I can empathise with this. I was called in to my cardiologist to review my MRI results. She then told me that she couldn't compare it to my previous scan as she didn't have it 🙄. I then had to wait a further 2 months for a different cardiologist to compare them.

[Kristin1812 Heart Star]

Just a slightly different view! I am reassured when a Cardio tells me they don’t have all the answers. They often don’t, and I like them to be truthful with me!

[cateblanchett]

Just to let you know you are not the only one to get short shrift from the cardiologist. I had 3 stents put in and felt terribly tired. Told cardiologist hoping to discuss medications, Reply from him “I’m very tired too”. End of discussion.

[Boxroad]

I would send this letter to my MP to the hospital manager and to Nigel farage and Alex belfield they enjoys getting involved in matters like this, what part of the country are you in I will make sure I don’t move there?