ME

[lurcherman 887 13,259]

7 minutes ago, Greyman said:

Little bit of good news I blew another disc in my back a month or so back and after sitting in a and e for 10 hrs I was rushed through to see a specialist had a full mri scan and was recieving treatment within 24 hrs things ain’t always as bad as you read

Her granddad had suspected heart attack and was told 15 hour wait for ambulance and because they can’t lift him out of bed alone he had to wait it out. 
 

turns out he’s got aspirational pneumonia? Plus prostate C , dementia the lot basically he’s fecked but at 84 he’s done alright i say 

[Greyman 28,901]

Just now, lurcherman 887 said:

Her granddad had suspected heart attack and was told 15 hour wait for ambulance and because they can’t lift him out of bed alone he had to wait it out. 
 

turns out he’s got aspirational pneumonia? Plus prostate C , dementia the lot basically he’s fecked but at 84 he’s done alright i say 

I’ve never waited for an ambulance so wouldn’t know but when I was waiting for 10hrs to be seen there were 19 ambulances queuing outside

[FLATTOP 4,543]

37 minutes ago, Greyman said:

Little bit of good news I blew another disc in my back a month or so back and after sitting in a and e for 10 hrs I was rushed through to see a specialist had a full mri scan and was recieving treatment within 24 hrs things ain’t always as bad as you read

Funny you should say that a couple of months ago my knee exploded it was like a flick of a switch instant disabling situation so I whinged and whined and my old woman said go A/E I was seen straight away xrayed saw a specialist on the day and a follow up with a consultant a week later.

My wife on the other hand had been waiting for a simple investigation since last December and only got seen a week ago.

[riohog 5,737]

must be about 25 years ago now ,or there abouts , anyway  i had a headach , it went on for about a week geting worse  just took a couple of asprin and thought itll go away , well it didnt , its abit hazzy  now  butt i remember waking up in hospital fkn head was busting ,after about a week it did  bate , and they sent me home , feeling ruff  but just got on with things as you do,, .it transpired i had a menagitis  type virus admitidly there was alot of other stuff going on at the time in my life  , ,anyway  3 years later acording tothe doctors i had developed me ,maybe as a result of the virus  and stress, .anyway i thought fk this i was knackered all the time ,being the person i am i thought fk this went to se a mate who was a stone mason said give me a job tony , bless him he knew i wasnt feeling good  but gave me a job ,cut a long story  shorter  , it cured me  well atleast i think itdid , now its a complicated job .and folk deal with it in different ways , i was the last person you would think would ever be diagnosed with ME  but there you go and doctors do not understand it ,but it is related to stress  of one sort or another .one common link i believe is folk that have had glandular fever as a kid are more susseptable to it  so they say      

[dytkos 17,819]

I went into the fracture clinic for my appointment 20 mins early, sent nearly straight away for X rays then sent somewhere else to have the cast removed, back to X ray then waiting room, then side room, then doc comes in, chat, discharge with a brace, 2 hours ish  

Cheers, D.

[low plains drifter 10,702]

1 hour ago, dytkos said:

I went into the fracture clinic for my appointment 20 mins early, sent nearly straight away for X rays then sent somewhere else to have the cast removed, back to X ray then waiting room, then side room, then doc comes in, chat, discharge with a brace, 2 hours ish  

Cheers, D.

A brace you say