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Why I don't trust doctors :(

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Well for the past fortnight not had much sleep due to a family member being ill screaming in pain.

Virtually every day and night had to call doctors, 111 and even 999. doctors kept saying muscle spasm and 999 said not an emergency. Two docs came to the same decision an x-ray was needed and booked, on call doc could not book the x-ray had to ring the decent doc.

Called 999 again this morning due to the pain and unable to move, ambulance turned up, think the call centre got the message this time.

X-ray reviled the disks in the spine joints had collapsed, causing bone on bone rubbing causing the severe pain.
 
Dear heaven, they must have been in agony and for the medical services to react like that is absolutely appalling. I'm shocked and absolutely horrified at what your family member has had to go through. I do hope formal complaints will be made. Not only has your relative been suffering needlessly for ages, but the damage is undoubtedly worse that it needed to be because of the delays.
 
Not really sure where to start the ball on this as it involved the 999 call centre, the out of hours 111 service and some normal doctors. 😡 😡 😡
 
pav said:
Not really sure where to start the ball on this as it involved the 999 call centre, the out of hours 111 service and some normal doctors. 😡 😡 😡
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Start with the Clinical Commissioning Group. They are the people who commission the local services, and pay for them.
 
Thanks LeeLee will have to look into that.
 
I'm so sorry to hear about this, I hope that they now have effective pain relief
 
pav said:
Well for the past fortnight not had much sleep due to a family member being ill screaming in pain.
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X-ray reviled the disks in the spine joints had collapsed, causing bone on bone rubbing causing the severe pain.
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Bad backs are a music hall joke, I'm sure that's why so many doctors treat the matter so lightly.

I went to the docs as a teenager. He said it was because we shouldn't walk upright and it would get worse.

A later doc just said, we'll you've had that as long as I have known you.

Another looked at an x ray and said the disk between the vertebrae had collapsed but that the two vertebrae would now fuse together and that pinning them together would be unnecessary. Well, they haven't, I still feel the involuntary movement occasionally.

I wish they'd be honest and just say that they don't know what to do.

Everyone who I have known who has had a bad back and got it sorted, did so with private surgery. They basically cut the remaining disk away and pin the vertebrae together.
 
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I'm so sorry to hear about this, I hope that they now have effective pain relief
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Not at this moment, will contact the doctors on Monday to see if they have been doing anything. 😡 😡
 
I can believe this story. In 2006 I fell head first down a wooden (uncarpeted) spiral stair hitting my head on a beam on the way down and landed head first on a wooden floor. I was taken to the county hospital in an ambulance with the blue light on. Eventually I had my head stitched up but they took no notice of the pain in my back even though I told them. I couldn't stand upright but I was sent home.

2 days later after I had screamed with pain at every movement I got my husband to take me to the local A&E. The Dr said it was probably a broken rib and not worth Xraying.

6 years later with pain still persisting intermittently a sports massage lecturer at a local college asked when I had broken my vertebra. I returned to the Dr and she arranged for an Xray. Sure enough my 11th thoracic vertebra had suffered a wedge fracture which has left me with scoliosis.

I complained to PALS and received an apology. Not much, no, but I hoped the complaint would help someone else in the future. You go for it Pav!

Incidentally this link will be of interest for people with chronic back pain http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/may/07/antibiotics-cure-back-pain-patients

Hope your relative can get some treatment and relief Pav
 
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