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[Lou]

Hi to all and i hope you are all well today,

Well i went for my docs appt yesterday which was booked for 5.30...and come 6.30 i was still sat there and there were 4 more people to go in ahead of me. So the receptionist calls me over and tells me i'll have to rescedule for Monday when my docs next in as theyre gonna close the surgery soon! How crap is that??? I tell you the medical service in this country is s**t.
I really had to build myself up and keep it together for that appt and i was so worked up cause i was gonna tell her everything and now i have a whole wkend before i can see her.....i feel really let down, and i know that its prob not there fault...other people are sick too but i just feel so dissapointed....i need help and now i have to wait till mon to get it. sorry bout the moan!!

Loves to all

Lou-Lou x x x

[Mackeral]

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I dont blame you for the rant Lou...That would get right up my nose aswell...At least you built up the courage to go though....You can be proud of that....And your a bit wiser aswell...Next time they try and give you a 5-30 appointment....Tell them where to stick it..

Stick close by to the boards till Monday...You can do it..

I gotta make an appointment with the quacks to try and get something to help me sleep...Day 4 for me today....but it feels like day 12 from lack of sleep..

Stick at it mate:l

[Popeye]

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I know what you mean Lou,
I phoned for an appointment to see about topamax or Campral or whatever. I am on holiday until Monday. When I asked last week for an appointment before I start back work, I was told that I couldn't see anyone until 16th January. I can't get home from work until after 6.00pm so Ican't go unless I take the day off....rediculous.

Hi Macks

[fsophiah]

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On these boards, I see more complaints of patient abuse from the UK than anywhere else. I do feel grateful for my doctors, who have been nothing but supportive, but I also look at how many people have no health coverage at all in this country. Millions. My daughter-in-law is not covered for maternity with her work insurance plan, so she can't get pregnant. There must be a better way. The Canadians seem to be much happier. About everything.

[Whitestar]

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Hi All uk

My doctor is sympathetic and will prescpibe valium, for the shakes, sleeping tabs and anti nausea,for my 3rd attempt at home withdrawal, if anyone has any luck getting presribed topa PLEASE let me know, I am on income support and cant afford to buy on line,mucked up again this time , small vodka at 4.00pm , UK sucks sometimes but at least its free!!

Regards Whitestar

[Owly]

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Hi Lou - sorry to hear that, you don't have to be psychic to work out which country you're talking about! You get what you pay for I guess.

I need to have a good moan too if you'll bear with... if not skip to next post...

A few weeks ago I registered with a new doctor as I had just moved to a new area and wanted to make sure my prozac prescription didn't run out. I was told I couldn't have an appointment until the 8th of Jan (this was well before christmas), I said I couldn't let the prescription run out, it was dangerous to suddenly withdraw it so I was given the address of a place in Soho I could go to to get emergency prescription renewels - I asked three times for confirmation, to the point where the receptionist was getting annoyed and wrote it down for me and underlined it. So I took the day off on wednesday to go there, first thing they say NO PRESCRIPTIONS.

So I've already run out and go to the doctor this afternoon to complain and insist on an emergency prescription until Monday when I can see the doctor properly. I explain how I planned weeks in advance just to avoid this and how I was given the wrong information, the receptionist goes to speak to the doctor who says he won't give me the prescription, even for a few days. I start going nuts and saying that they are playing around with my health and that it is on their heads if anything happens... goes back and talks to the doctor, still says no, which is BS cos I've had prescriptions before even where I wasn't registered.

I asked if the pharmacy across the road would give me a few until monday - I was told no way we're very sorry there's nothing you can do. So I storm out, brushing past the idiot receptionist from a few weeks back who had seemingly been relegated to undressing the christmas tree, I cross the road to the pharmacist, ask for emergency pills until Monday, get them no problem, go back to the doctors and tell them to sort their mess of a surgery out because none of them has a clue what they are talking about, and also asked whichever doctor was on that day that I never want to see them and may even put in a complaint...

Grrrrr!!!!

Was a good feeling waving the box of pills in their face though

[Lou]

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Hi Owly,

Im glad you got your pills...bet that felt good...waving them in their faces!!!!!!! Its just unbelievable in this country isnt it??? people seem to go out of there way ensure that you DONT get the help you need...im so frustrated and angry right now!!!!

[MKR]

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Macks what about that calms forte for sleeping? Can you get that in the UK? I couldn't even take it during the day as I am asleep in half an hour with the stuff.

Sorry about all of your doctor woes. We have extremely long waits in the US. Then screw ups plus large medical bills with huge insurance premiums and then guess what? What you need is not covered. I dislike the system and find it tough to take my parents to doctor appointments and wait the whole day. Who has that kind of time unless your retired?

[Owly]

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It is unbelievable lou - the one common theme I've heard from friends who've had to deal with mental health problems and the nhs is 'don't do it, you'll regret ever having asked for help'. My two experiences with psychiatrists confirmed this. Of course there are those who get lucky and get good help but it is a lottery.

Now I virtually have to be my own doctor and psychiatrist.

[Newyear]

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Owly.....I got all worked up just reading your post. Felt like flying over there going to your dr office and saying "YEAH!!!!! What he said!!!!"
Anway.....virtual support from me to you! ANd for you too Lou....anyone who has had to deal with this sort of red tape. It's just infuriating.

Lisa

[kitkatsue]

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Hello Lou,

Sorry about what happened, for many of the reasons posted I don't like going to the doctor. My last doctor was nice but not very helpful, although at the time I hadn't admitted to myself that I drank to much even though I did. At the time there was so much going on that I was constantly depressed, and drinking made it worse, so she addressed my depression, with , and pardon me if I don't spell these pills correctly, paxil, zoloft, effexor, wellbuteral, and next would have been Prozac, not to mention xanax, atavan, and valium for my anxiety attacks.

And some days I really wish I had some xanax like a week ago. I won't bore you with details but I have no insurance now and if I want xanax I am out of luck, my doctor moved and a new doctor won't see me unless I pay a whole lot of money if I had a whole lot of money I would have insurance. I'm going to get insurance as soon as possible. I had a prior prescription for xanax why not just sell two or three stinking pills, would it kill them, I can't get hooked on two or three pills and I don't want to go to the emergency room and pay $500.00 bucks for one stinking shot!!!!!!!!!!


SORRY!
Ok I don't know why I told you all of that except to say, I'm afraid to take anything now because if I really need it they probably will find some way not to let me have it.

Sorry again Kitkat

[Owly]

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I feel your pain kitkat... :h:h I've had to put up with being called a junkie and a fugitive on the run from the police before (well that's the obvious reason for anxiety right? DUH!) just for asking for certain medication which I KNEW was what I needed and which other doctors in that very surgery had actually put me on.


warm hugs
xxxxx

[kitkatsue]

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Thanks Owly:thanks:
Kitkat

[kitkatsue]

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Sorry about all youve been through

[Lou]

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Why are docs so reluctant to put us on medication that will help us....my old doc told me it is because they can become addictive....helllo.... are we not already addicted to alcohol and if giving us a pill that has no side affects and helps us stop drinking works then whats the problem??
Well as of now...this very minute i am gonna be abs (just drank the last of my vodka).....my doc wasnt there when i needed her but my nanna (bless her) who takes lorazipam...same kind of drug as librium, has volentered to help me by giving me her lorazipam in controled reducing doses as they do in the hospital. So sad when you have to resort to such measures....this country is poo!!! Anyway fingers crossed...it will work cause i want it to so much.
Loves

Lou-Lou x x x