So I saw a different doctor this morning to push for a referral - and still nothing!
He told me they can't refer me until I have had a load of blood tests done (already booked for Monday afternoon) .
My local hospital hosts the Dorset Endo Centre, but he has also said he can't refer me there, only to gyne at the hospital who will then send me onto DEC!
Has anyone else experienced this, referral to gyne rather than a specialist?
Thank you very much for the reply.
The doctor said he had spoken to the hospital and they 'won't accept the referral until all tests were done' - I don't know if I believe this, but I rang the local Endi centre yesterday and I can't even get advise from them without a referral!
Blood tests on Monday afternoon, checking for everything and anything now, was told to see the doc again on Wednesday and THEN they will refer!!
Local area is a 2-4 month wait just for gyne, but they have said (and I will hold them to it!) that I will be referred as urgent, making the wait 3-4 weeks.
I don't see what more I can do bwtween now and Wednesday then bloods are back? 😕
I had my appendix out in October. They removed a lot of blood from my pelvis, tested it and confirmed endo, so I really don't understand my doctors dragging their heels like this!!
I will go for the blood tests Monday, on Wednesday I won't leave my doctors until they refer me to the endo centre across the road from them... That's how close my doctor is to the local hospital!!
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It might be worth asking them if they want to do any other tests - my GP said that a gynae wouldn't see me until I've had STI swabs done too, so I had to go to a clinic and get them done (also had blood tests done by the gp) before the GP referred me. The GP said that if they hadn't insisted on me getting tested, the gynae would and then it would make things take even longer to get to see them for a proper consultation.
I've had everything tested already, it's just bloods now! Can't understand why they didn't do everything at once tho? It would have knocked about a month off of any waiting times I will now have to face!!
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Urgh! Don't get me started on silly delays to waiting times through poor admin and "lost letters".
Good old NHS huh?!?!?! 😊
It was the private clinic that fluffed up first! Couldn't tell me if they had actually sent the letter back to my GP or not, they had no record of it being sent (this was after calling up three days in a row with promises of calling me back, saying they thought maybe the secretary had gone off on holiday and taken the dictaphone with her?!)
Crap service once they realised they weren't getting any more money out of me
Oh my god, that's even worse!! Poor you!!🙁
Goodness, no, my situation isn't worse - I can't believe they've already taken a look inside you, got proper evidential proof of the issue and yet they're still knobbing you around?!
Always the way with me, nothing is ever simple!! I am prepared to keep fighting tho, it's ruining my life enough as it is!!!
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