Around 4 weeks ago, I made an appointment with my GP, because for the previous week to ten days, I was drinking and peeing for England, and I felt really unwell. For the last few days, I had been very nauseous, and had been short of breath. Plus, for the last 6 months or so, I had become very lethargic!
I told my GP about all my symptoms, and that I could quite easily drink over 8 liters of fluids a day and still want more.
Her first reply was " You definatly need to drink less fluids as its not good for you"!
My GP told me to go to the loo at the surgery with a bottle as she needed a uring sample to test.
When she dipped it, she said it was showing high levels of keytones, and she said that she needed to get a blood sample from me straight away as it was really urent. And if I waited in the wating room, she would get it done in 5 mins or so.
I was called into another room to see somebody else, where this woman took a blood sample, and then told me to phone up the surgary in 1-2 weeks to see if the results had come back yet!
I thought this was a bit odd, as the GP said it was urgent!
Over the next 3 days, I got gradually worse!
I was sat in the chair one day, when 2 family members were talking to me, and I just couldnt understand them. I was leaning to one side and just talking jibberish, and then threw up.
My son put me in his car and took me straight to A&E where I was properly examined and had numerous blood tests including a blood sugar test.
The doctor came back and said that my blood sugar levels were so high, it was beyond the limits of the maching.
The doctor hooked me straight up to an insulin drip and said he was admitting me.
He told me that it was a good job that my son brought me into A&E when he did, otherwise I could have been in a coma that night, and as I was spending the night alone in the house, it could have been much worse!
The diabetic nurse who came to see me in hospital 2 days later, also told me the same thing, and that I was lucky that I went to A&E when I did.
I have since been diagnosed with having type 1 diabetes.
I have since discovered, that if patients show keytones in their urine at their GP's surgery, they are sent straight to hospital without delay!
I am seriously thinking of getting in touch with a solicitor and making a claim against my GP's surgery for medical negligence!
Does anybody know how I stand with a claim such as this?
Cheers
Den
I told my GP about all my symptoms, and that I could quite easily drink over 8 liters of fluids a day and still want more.
Her first reply was " You definatly need to drink less fluids as its not good for you"!
My GP told me to go to the loo at the surgery with a bottle as she needed a uring sample to test.
When she dipped it, she said it was showing high levels of keytones, and she said that she needed to get a blood sample from me straight away as it was really urent. And if I waited in the wating room, she would get it done in 5 mins or so.
I was called into another room to see somebody else, where this woman took a blood sample, and then told me to phone up the surgary in 1-2 weeks to see if the results had come back yet!
I thought this was a bit odd, as the GP said it was urgent!
Over the next 3 days, I got gradually worse!
I was sat in the chair one day, when 2 family members were talking to me, and I just couldnt understand them. I was leaning to one side and just talking jibberish, and then threw up.
My son put me in his car and took me straight to A&E where I was properly examined and had numerous blood tests including a blood sugar test.
The doctor came back and said that my blood sugar levels were so high, it was beyond the limits of the maching.
The doctor hooked me straight up to an insulin drip and said he was admitting me.
He told me that it was a good job that my son brought me into A&E when he did, otherwise I could have been in a coma that night, and as I was spending the night alone in the house, it could have been much worse!
The diabetic nurse who came to see me in hospital 2 days later, also told me the same thing, and that I was lucky that I went to A&E when I did.
I have since been diagnosed with having type 1 diabetes.
I have since discovered, that if patients show keytones in their urine at their GP's surgery, they are sent straight to hospital without delay!
I am seriously thinking of getting in touch with a solicitor and making a claim against my GP's surgery for medical negligence!
Does anybody know how I stand with a claim such as this?
Cheers
Den
