At the docs.

[muirfoot107]

Anyone else get that queasy feeling sitting in the GP waiting room? Will this be the day I walk through that door and he says 'Good news, I've cracked it, you are going to be well again'. It's a mix of anticipation and fear. Will today be the day?

[FallenAngel22]

I know how you feel. Each time I go to the drs I pray he will give me the magic pill to make me better. However I've been back and to since 2011 with hypo symptoms and now waiting to see an endo so it'll be a while yet.

[puncturedbicycle]

I get an angry feeling not a queasy feeling.

I think the answer is to take it in hand yourself so you need no longer feel powerless and beholden to the gp, just waiting for them to miraculously crack it. I have resigned myself to knowing they will *never* crack it, but I may, and little by little I do.

It's a much better feeling because when they start acting like ****s I can just walk away and take my own knowledge elsewhere.

[Joyia in reply to puncturedbicycle]

That's good advice puncturedbicycle.

[Lizzy1606]

I just sit there on pins and if they are runing later i feel like just walking out,they give you a presciption and say if you are no better come back.How many times do you have to go back before it gets sorted .I try not to go if i can as it is so disheartening .I think that this is one of the reasons why A & E are having problems as people are fed up of going to see the GPand are not getting any answers.

[humanbean]

I sit in the waiting room and wonder how they are going to make my quality of life worse this time. I usually feel there is no point in being at the doctors at all because they rarely believe a word I say, or if they do believe me they take it for granted that I'm exaggerating enormously and I can safely be dismissed and sent on my way.

When I compare how I feel now that I'm self-medicating to how I felt before I started the difference is immense. I still have a long way to go, but I'm getting there.

[annie-7]

Hi Lizzy1606, I love your optimism, "IF they are running late." The thing I've noticed is that there seem to be fewer people in the waiting room, yet I have had to wait up to an hour! (can't figure that one out) My saga has been going on for 6 months (plus the 10 or so years I have spent trying to get an answer to all these crazy symptoms.) I am running out of patience and energy.

[FallenAngel22 in reply to annie-7]

I'm with you on that one! My waiting room is usually 1 or 2 people with 4 GPs on yet I'm always kept waiting upwards of 20 mins which is why I have to go in the afternoons as the time out of work was ridiculous. My boss is generous but I felt it was taking the mick.

[Lizzy1606 in reply to annie-7]

Ihad one was 40 mins late said he was sorry for the wait but 10 mins before i watched him walk out and get his self a coffee and i was the last patient , as if he could not have waited,then because i did not agree to is diagnosis he said there was nothing he could do for me then and asked me to leave.

I have noticed there are fewer people yet they say they are over worked cannot cope.beats me.

[babycatcher7572]

I just feel the blood drain from my face when they ask..."and what can i do for you today?"....you asked me to come....remember....hypothyroid...on t3/levo combo...no...not ringing any bells??? groan

[Jazzw in reply to babycatcher7572]

Yes! Good to know they don't even glance at your notes before you enter the room!

I've noticed the empty waiting room thing. I think it might be that they spend more time filling out paperwork than seeing patients - even pointless consultations need the completion of 2 forms, maybe?

[Nickinoo1 in reply to Jazzw]

Yes absolutely. Consultant appt tomorrow and a mix of praps he'll be kind and knowledgeable - in the true sense of the word - and not some male egotistical Dr who thinks its ok to view me a a middle aged perimenopausal, depressive, somatoform disorder that he can dismiss with an 'it's all in your head'. Setting myself up for disappointment but would like a little hope too.

Sorry nervous and ranting

[Joyia]

Absolutely, I am due to see an Endo this afternoon and am full of fear and misgivings, just awful not to have confidence due to prior experiences.