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Can anyone let me know of a good consultant in or near Bristol,

How best can I find out, please. Thank you very much for help.

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misty14

Hi guard

If you email Paul at lupus uk he'll be able to give you which consultants at Bristol are on his recommendation list!. There are some good hospitals there.

The address is paul@lupusuk.org.uk

Best of luck. X.

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Teaspoon13

Try and get a referral to the Royal National Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases in Bath.

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Gcart in reply to Teaspoon13

Thanks for replying, I will keep it in mind, but my doc hasn't offered to refer me . I have a script to pick up later .

It's an antiiinflammatory , so I guess no more at present.

Hope it helps a bit anyway, thanks again x

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Gcart

It seems that my blood results indicated lupus some time ago, I was never told. Is that experience of others ??

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Wendy39 in reply to Gcart

Get copies of your blood results. Keep them. If you have lupus and have a prescription for a Lupus med then you should be under a Rheumatologist or dermatologist or nephrologist etc. Hydroxychloroquine etc are not usually initiated by a GP. Let me have a bit more info.

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Wendy39

The hospital at Bath is a Lupus Centre of Excellence. I would try for a referral there. Good luck!

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Gcart

GP has prescribed anti inflammatories. Not sure which til I pick up later.

No talk about referral. I do have my blood test results I will keep them .

I guess its another problem now to get s referral . Oh dear , x

Thanks for getting back

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Paul_HowardPartnerLUPUS UK

Hi Gcart . Dr Harsha Gunawardena is a lupus specialist at Southmead Hospital in Bristol. Alternatively, you may wish to ask for a referral to the LUPUS UK Centre of Excellence in Bath (The Royal National Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases), as others have suggested.

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Gcart in reply to Paul_Howard

Thanks for that, Southmead would be good for me to get to .

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