I called my docs this morning and asked for an appointment again. My 3rd attempt this week. All they could offer was a call back via telephone. He rang me back asked what was the problem. "No sleep for weeks is my problem" I told him i needed to be seen TODAY...
He told me there were no apts and to call next week, I told him i insist i see someone TODAY.. He repeated, "no apts today, its not an emmergency !!!!! I told him i can NOT wait till next week, ive been calling everyday for 5 days to get an appointment, by the time the receptionists answer the cal the apts have all gone. He just kept talking over me and saying its not urgent..
I was livid, maybe not to you its not urgent but if i have to do another weekend and may still be told monday, no apts. That was it I started shouting because he was talking over me all the time trying to tell me I WAS NOT important enough. How dare he, Because i havent slept for weeks my fibro and ME, is so much worse than it needs to be. He did eventually give me an apt for 3pm today.
The locum gp wasnt much better, he asked me why i wasnt sleeping??? I told him prob because of the pain!!! So he wanted me to take over the max dose of co-codamol or increase gabapentin, Or swap to tramadol or naproxen.. I told him i had tried all of his suggestions and they made me poorly with stomach pain, he said "well we are running out of options"... He gave me sertraline 50mg one daily and to take 2 gabbapentin at night instead of 1....
I came away again feeling deflated, so ive been out and bought nytol. So im not going to take the sertraline until ive tried the nytol. Lets see what effect they have????
everyone keeps saying "have a drink" but i dont like alcohol especially in the house. I can drink if i'm out in a social setting but i dont really want to go down that rd if i can help it. Replace one problem with another and i would worry driving the next morning, fibro fogs bad enough without been hung over lol. xx
Hi honey not good is it. Can you not go to a different surgery?
I have been sat in that same chair and been told "your options are all out" but the other week i go see a different doctor and he put me on Prolonged release trammadol. I was sceptical but it truly has done wonders for me which is fantastic as i can't tollerate most pills due to stomach or severe headaches. I hope you get relief soon honey fingers crossed for you xxx
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Ive tried tramadol and it crippled my stomach. as did the naproxan. I'm still struggling to work so i need to be fit to drive the next morning so taking over the max dose of co-codamol is a risk too. I cant afford not to work, i need my car to get around so i have to be workin full-time too which is a real ball ache. I did have the DLA forms sent out but i decided not to apply, theres more chance we winning lottery than getting anything out of them... i can work so i have no chance of getting any help...
You really should fill the forms in. I work full time and have just been given low rate care and high rate mobility. I thought I was wasting my time and that I would not get anything.
we have 2 doctors surgery's in my village. i rang the other one tday and they wont take me on because i'm already registered with one!!!... I could try one in next village but i worry about the days im too ill to travel the 5 mile, i went on NHS website today and my surgery has lot of comments a long list of around 20 comments all bad, all disgusted with the practice and its rotten service...
my next step would be to complain to practice manager, then u just get tagged as a trouble causer xxx
Yes i do agree with your comments Eversohappy, ive got same problem, my GP made some horrible remarks about me even though my husband was in the room. I wanted to change to another GP in the pracice who i had seen once before and who was more understanding, spoke to practice manager and was told that he was full up and not taking anymore patiebts, was given the choice of staying with the same one or leaving the practice. Have tried to change, like you i live in a remote area and not many surgeries. The receptionits think they run the place, are often rude and argumentative, if you need to see GP urgently they want to know everything that is wrong with you (errr, are the receptionists medically trained?) feels like they are doing you a favour even answering the phone. NHS needs to shake up the GP service, as ive said before on this site ive paid my NI for over 40 years and this is what i get. Do they not understand that it is us who pay their salaries.
Good luck and best wishes.
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Sorry honey meant to say have you tried amatryptaline?
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Hi, yes i tried that few months ago, it took 4 days to start workin and worked for 2 weeks then i needed 2 a night and then that had no effects. so this was my reason for apt today xxx
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I take 100mg to 125 now i have started working, when i first started i had to play around with the dosage quite a lot xx
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If the nytol dont work im going to try the nightnurse lol. I went to Asda tonight and asked assistant "do u sell nytol" Yes she replied, so i told her " oh good cause if i dont sleep tonight im gona murder someone lol. She looked at me as if to say... this womens mad!!! lol i thought it wa funny, she didnt lol. xx
Hi Hun i am on 1,600 mg of gabapentin and 75mg of amitripyline a night.i would change my doctor and find a nice one. When i moved they had 10 doctors in the practice i visited them one by one until i found a lovely kind gp and a few others in the practice .Doctors don't really understand firbo .maybe go back and see another doctor in pratcise.
DLA is a benefit you can claim whilst working, it is a benefit to help you retain your employment. I have similar problems as you with regards to medication and doctors. I am super sensitive to everything - literally everything. I am now on sertraline, 150mg pr day. It does help me sleep. I takes the edge off my depression, but it does nothing to relieve the pain. I still wake up stiff and feeling like I could sleep some more. I am in pain all day long. I have also been told by the rheumy's in the hospitals I have been to, trying to get a different diagnosis, they have told me that I am wasting their time. That owing to all the different meds I have tried I have no further options. My gp however is very understanding. He has the patience of a saint with me. When I call the surgery I get the same thing as you, I have to ask for a doctor to assess me over the phone, but I can usually get an appointment. Sorry you are having this trouble. You're right not to rely on alcohol, that is not the way to go. If you aren't satisfied with your gp have you tried talking to the practice manager. It might help.
I do not take anything in the way of pain meds JUST for the fibro as I ran out of options before I was even diagnosed. I am on tramadol now because of the damage to my feet, see previous blogs and they do not even touch the fibro pain. My hubby takes Tramadol and he was given Ranitidine to alleviate any tummy problems and it works for him.
Do not be surprised if you find it even harder to see your own GP in the future after the shout out with him. I often want to scream at the medical profession but fear being taken off the register, so I hold my tongue until I can find a way of fitting it into a conversation at the next visit.
But I wish you well with the Nytol. Hubby tried them and they failed to work for him, but we are all different xxxxx
Oh thank you Ozzy, I wouldnt have normally shouted at the GP but he's such an arsehole. No one likes him, his bedside manner is disgusting. He's rude to everyone, as it happens, thankfuly the nytol worked !! yey..... lol
Well for last night anyway, I went to bed at 1.30am got to sleep in no time and slept while 11am this morning, with only 2 to 3 interuptions waking because i was cold but generally I had a good sleep... Just hope its works for longer than the amytriptalyne did.
The bedside manner of many a GP and consultant leaves a lot to be desired. My GP is generally very good, but at times I do feel as though I am not being understood. But I get there in the end. Glad the Nytol worked last night hunni xxxxx
Thanks Ozzy, see my recent post though. Moffy and VG Picked up on my post and wuite rightly told me of the interactions that can happen with prescribed meds and over the counter sleeping aids. It worked a treat but NEVER DRIVE after the combination of all the meds i take. I could have had an accident, infact i did clip a curb on a tight bend driving home yesterday aft, I became VERY DIZZY after taking my usual co-codamol and gabbapentin.... Never again, although the sleep was a god send o feel great today after 2 nights with proper sleep...
But i wasnt driving today so ive been fine and because i had sleep ive not needed the pain killers either today.
I know how frustrating it is to try and get an appt with the doctors, and its even worse when the appt you finally get is wasted by a GP who wants to make out that FMS doesn't exist....except IN YOUR HEAD!!........
One of my symptoms is depression, and I have found the supplement 5HTP to work. as it increases the seratonin in your body more natually. However you have to check it against other meds you are taking. As expected, my GP didn't even know what it was, so had to go back to a herbalist to check dosage against my Amitripyline. It worked similar to taking prozac, but no side effects :-). Found it was safe to take a good dose of it as only doing 10mg of Ami. But you must be certaian of your dosages, as too much and you can get seratonin syndrome.
I am also taking Vit B12 and Magnesium supplements. and have found out Vit D helps the 5HTP, but can be toxic so have to go back to GP for VitD levels blood test - wonder if he/she will understand why I want it done?? Whats betting I have a problem there...
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Pain Clinic this morning. Waste of time, energy & effort!!
PIP Assessment ggrrrr
GP telling me to get on with life 
Is this related to my Fibromyalgia?
Appointment with Rheumatologist 
