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Please help me find a good GP in N. Ireland!

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Hello everyone, i hope your all having a good day. I'm hoping someone can help me, i am desperately looking for a good GP who is knowledgable and sympathetic about fibro in one of the following areas of Northern Ireland, Moira, Lurgan, Donacloney or Banbridge. Can you help???

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Hi Sings, I'm with the Moira dr practise on the Main Street and can't recommend Dr Spence highly enough. He's been my gp for few yrs and he's great. I get fantastic care from him and he's been on courses dealing with fibro. If I ask him a question he's not sure bout he finds out 4 me and listens to exactly what I say. There are 3 main drs in the practise as well as locums on various days also. The other 2 main drs are Dr Parker and Dr Davis but my advise is to stay well clear of them as they don't believe in fibro. I can't really say much bout the locums in the practise as I stick with Dr Spence wherever possible. There is 1 locum who's quite a regular called Dr Barr and he's pretty good also although I've only seen him 2/3 times when Dr Spence has been on holiday etc. Hope this helps u xx

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Weelamb

Hi ya neighbour :-) I don't think there's any good gp's in the following areas that u have mentioned, tbh they say Craigavon is one of the better ones? I'm not sure as I'm not a patient!! A lot of gps reckon fibro is the "yuppy flu", & all in the head, u know the score were kinda classed as lazy lay a bouts, there is a good surport group in newry&morne fibromagila group, google it, it's on 1st/2nd tue each month, I've the no somewhere I'll hava wee look for u when my legs switch on again:-) hope this helps:-)x

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Gud luck finding a g.p that is helpful lv I live in n.i and haven't found 1 that I found sympathetic R helpful lv every time I went 2 docs I always ended up cn a different 1 which is so annoying coz they don't no anything abt me so I hav 2 tell them the whole story iv bn with my surgery since I was born nearly 48 years ago and hav seen loads of docs cum and go through the surgery but gud luck anyway xo

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Thanks to everyone for taking the time to reply. I tried to join the Moira practice, only to be told that i'm outside their catchment area!! oh well, i have heard the practice in Gilford is quite good, so i will probably just go with them.

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