Vascular consultant recommendation

[JumpJiving]

Hello,

I was recently diagnosed with Peripheral Arterial Disease (PAD). Due to long waiting lists at my nearest hospitals, I have received a letter from the NHS trust suggesting referring me to a hospital further afield. If I am going to have to travel, I figure I might as well have a look at hospitals other than the ones that they suggested (which are a fair distance away already).

To that end, would anybody recommend (by private message please) their vascular consultant/surgeon in West or East Sussex, Surrey, or south/central London please?

I don't have any experience of vascular consultants/surgeons, but from experience with endocrinologists know that they can vary dramatically - whether vascular consultants/surgeons vary as much I do not know (hopefully, they are all great!)

Many thanks

(Can admin turn off commenting please so that responses are by private message only)

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[Sonny657]

Hi there JumpJiving 👋

Do you mind me asking, what were your symptoms, and how old are you?

[JumpJiving in reply to Sonny657]

Sonny657

59 years.

The symptom that made me go get checked out was painful feet and lower legs after resting in a chair with my feet up in the evenings. On getting up, I would walk across the house as if walking bare foot on sharp gravel. Also ache in buttock and loss of hair on parts of legs.

I should be pretty low risk for PAD according to list of risk factors, but since diagnosis of PAD I have improved diet to reduce LDL cholesterol (which wasn’t particularly high before). My suspicion is that cortisol levels might be involved (I have a diagnosis of tertiary adrenal insufficiency, which I am in the process of reversing), but adrenal insufficiency is poorly understood so finding anybody who could confirm/deny that based on scientific study is likely to be a problem.

[Sonny657 in reply to JumpJiving]

I see. I'm not familiar with PAD, what actually is it? Is it a clot somewhere in the artery?

[JumpJiving in reply to Sonny657]

Sonny657 See nhs.uk/conditions/periphera...