Can doctors at your surgery label you or stereotype you because of having a mental health..

Reason I ask is- I have had 2 funny turn in space off 3 weeks symptoms was heart pounding on chest, lightheaded, racing heart rate of 130, sweating heavy, numb face, and confusion and slur speechfirst time it happen for 30mins and 2 time I had to phone 111 and they sent an ambulance out to me did tests like bp which was 152/102 heart rate was 102, they took me to hospital because they was worried about my glazed eyes and confusion an slur speech. Doc saw me did a ecg on me and nothing and told me I looked abit anemic and my neck looked swollen so felt around and started asking me if I had thyroid problems and I said yes and told him I had hypothyroidism but not on any meds and then he asked if I had any nodules which I said yes again and told me that I should be on meds and said coz I have nodules you will always have these symptoms if your not on meds and he advised me to see my gp surgery which I did and explained what happened and told her what the a+e doctor said and she came out with never listen to a+e doctor because there only juniors and I told her he was in his 50's and I believed what he said because he didnt know about my thyroid, she just laughed at me and said have you had counciling or help like that so I snapped because I knew where she was going with this so she said it all in my head.. so I think I might have to report her because I dont want her to get away with labeling me with my previous illness.. hope I made sense because im hopeless in writing lol

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carolr

4 years ago

Rachel79,

It's all too familiar to me I've had my blood pressure over 200 in the past six months.

They will always try and confuse you. Make out it's all in the head.

I don't know what the answer is.

The thing is remember doctors don't know everything.

Rather than say this too you. They try it on!

Your not feeling well you need some assurance.

But it don't work that way.

I've found a doc in out of hours who will talk to me.

He will say I don't know the answer to that.

Whereas my GP will not come out

they say if your that bad go to A and E.

A and E just get rid as fast as possible. I've had some 50 year olds too. One was a lecturer in political science from a Indian university. He booked for a fought

night at A and E.

So if that docs on duty at out of hours he tries to help.

My GP's it's lucky they would get out the chair to look at you.

Hand attached to the key board.

I am in the process of compiling.

For the 3rd time of asking.

It's doubtful I will get anywhere.

How these people get compensation beats me?

All the GP does is get rid of you if your too much trouble.

Like you stick up for yourself.

That's fatal!

I had meningitis I was not getting any better I was bounce out of one practice into two others cause I stood up for myself.

The same things happened with the Lyme only worse. I had doctors lie and lose my GP notes.

Then put me on section 2.

Twice!

While other doctors I spoke to afterwards knew. They would not get involved.

Carol

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Hi Rachel, there's no doubt you have a thyroid problem and your TSH has been too high. I wonder when you were put on your tiny dose of Levo you converted any of the T4, to what your body needs, the T3. I have had symptoms like you when I've been undermedicated. I saw Dr Skinner and he said Palps can be your body's way of trying to pump around the little thyroxine you have.

Have you had a look at the thyroid symptoms on the Thyroid UK site? You can hopefully print these off and tick all that apply to you, and show your doctor. The problem we have is most doctors don't know what the symptoms are and just look at your TSH which doesn't really tell us what's happening in our body. Have you taken your early morning temperatures before you get out of bed? If it's low it can reflect that your thyroid isn't working properly.

Hi Rachel, yes your temps are low! Your sugar seems high. Mine is 6 and I keep getting told I'm pre-diabetic, your bp is high, which of course it can be with hypo. I think you have adrenal problems, and taking the two BP's can help diagnose that, it falls when you stand. Your GP doesn't want to act on any of these results???

Have you been tested for any anaemia? B12, Folate, Iron? I had bad palps and always aware of my heart and now I'm having B12 injections it's much calmer.

You urgently need treatment and for what it's worth a short synacthen test. It is pretty useless to be honest but it can check if your adrenal glands are reacting to stress, not how low your cortisol is. If you can afford it get an Adrenal Stress Profile done, I think it's around £70, I had my done by Genova, there's some info on private tests on the main Thyroid UK site.

Silly question, have you ever seen an endocrinologist?

flatfeet1

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Yes that's a good idea, they might have the A+E Docs name on them. If not I would ask for his name at A+E.

Just thought if you could also get an email address of A+E doc, practice manager and GP, this would speed things up rather than snail mail, they also seem to prefer emails rather than paper these days. (The surgery should also be able to email you the A+E report)

I would also state in your letter about sweats slurred speech and chest pains, I don't know if these could be symptoms of a precipitating thyroid storm or not, but it would be a good idea to mention all the same.

That's good you have a friend to help as I know how confusion can totally muddle, seems to be certain times of the day with me. I usually have more clarity at this time of night hence why I'm up and replying now.

Good luck and let me know how you get on.