Infected toe GP surgery not answering phone what should I do?

[grovesy]

My surgery doesn’t have an e-consult.

I was going to post not every area or even surgeries in the same areas operate the same, services.

 

[AJLang]

Thank you very much everyone. GP has prescribed high dose antibiotics and I have an emergency NHS podiatry appointment tomorrow to see if it needs special dressings. Podiatry confirmed that they are not allowed to issue any prescriptions themselves.

 

[AndBreathe]

Thank you very much everyone. GP has prescribed high dose antibiotics and I have an emergency NHS podiatry appointment tomorrow to see if it needs special dressings. Podiatry confirmed that they are not allowed to issue any prescriptions themselves.

Whilst they don't issue prescriptions, they are usually respected enough by a GP to respond when they make conttact.

Whilst if you have NHS podiatry (hen's teeth in this area, unless there is an existing issue), it does make sense to stick with those who know you, but to be honest, your position was extremely suboptimal, so going off reservation would, in my personal opinion, have been justified.

I'm really glad you are sorted.

 

[grovesy]

Whilst they don't issue prescriptions, they are usually respected enough by a GP to respond when they make conttact.

Whilst if you have NHS podiatry (hen's teeth in this area, unless there is an existing issue), it does make sense to stick with those who know you, but to be honest, your position was extremely suboptimal, so going off reservation would, in my personal opinion, have been justified.

I'm really glad you are sorted.

In this area NHS Podiatry is for high risk only and has been for at least 20 years.

 

[KARNAK]

So glad you are getting sorted Amanda looks nasty, my Podiatrist can issue
prescriptions and has done for me several times hopefully they`ll put you
back on the high risk category as I am. {{{HUGS}}}

 

[AJLang]

Thank you everyone. I have a brittle toe nail and the podiatrist said that although the nail looked like it had been cut straight across the top ias it should beit was a bit of the nail had splintered and embedded itself in the skin - the skin was trying to repair itself around it which has caused the infection. He cut the piece of toe nail out of the infected skin (ouch!) and used a dressing with iodine. I’m to keep to keep it bandaged for two days and not to get it wet. Then every two days put it in warm water that has had two handfuls of salt dissolved in it for just four minutes, air dry it, dress it again, leave it for two days and keep repeating until I see him again to review in a fortnight. He did my full feet check but refused to give me numbers although it was clear that the pre-existing neuropathy was worse in the right foot because of how long it took me to feel vibrations etc. (Last year when there was the concern about possible charcot I wa reviewed by the lead podiatrist for the area who gave me a lot more detail than the person I saw yesterday). Once this is sorted I won’t be referred back to high risk for regular checks but can see them if I have other urgent issues. Feels like a long wait until tomorrow afternoon when we will take the bandage off and see if there is any improvement. The only thing that niggled me yesterday was that because I’m overweight he assumed that I was type 2 and did a mini interrogation as if he didn’t believe me that I was type one even though I explained when I got it and how long ago that was.

 

[Vonny]

Glad you've got it sorted @AJLang, but it shows what preconceptions abound, even in the NHS! Not good having to repeatedly explain the fact you were T1 to him.

 

[AJLang]

Glad you've got it sorted @AJLang, but it shows what preconceptions abound, even in the NHS! Not good having to repeatedly explain the fact you were T1 to him.

Thank you Vonnie. When I when I first arrived I told him i was Type 1 but later in the conversation he said so you’re Type 2. After he first assumed that I was Type 2 I explained that I’d been Type 1 for nearly 50 years and then he said is That because you’ve stopped producing all of your own insulin...I wouldn’t mind but he’s been the podiatrist at the diabetic high risk clinic for many, many years. Mind you I’ve had a GP at the surgery I’ve been at for 20 years assuming that I’m Type 2 and even the DSN at the GP surgery who wrote on my notes that I was Type 2 even though I’ve been seeing her for years and have an insulin pump.

 

[mikeyB]

I know how you feel Amanda, it only took seven years for the GP to change T2 to T1 on the surgery computer, despite the consultant telling him I was T1. Not as impressive as half a century, mind🙂

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

Glad you managed to get seen @AJLang

Hope the ABs do the trick

And ugh! about HCP that can’t get third heads around the fact that T1s get older (and can be diagnosed at any age!)