more blood tests

purpleunicorn
purpleunicorn Member Posts: 67
edited 8. Mar 2012, 09:32 in Living with Arthritis archive
Aaarrrgghhh... Just been back to GP yet again and instead of being referred to rheumatology I am being sent for more blood tests. I told him I had them done 2 weeks ago and he said I wasn't tested for rheumatological stuff. And yet I had RF tested and ESR. What tests does he mean then? He told me to go for physio, lose weight. He's not bothered about the fact that I can barely use my left hand, or need a stick sometimes or can't sleep for pain. He took me off diclofenac and put me on ibuprofen instead. Basically I feel like he thinks I am a fraud.

Really fed up with this.

Aly

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  • bubbadog
    bubbadog Member Posts: 5,544
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Hi Purple, I'm so sorry you had a bad appointment, I'm not a medical person so can't say why he changed your meds over to Iburofen all I can say on that is they never helped me when I was on them for 2 days years and years ago!! I've had to have loads of blood tests before I was refered to the Rhummey I will be seeing, they where for many things including bone density. So it could be the same sort of tests I had. I'm so sorry you feel so down about the appointment, I wish I could make you feel better, I send you a huge (((HUG))).
  • valval
    valval Member Posts: 14,911
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    the docs go through a whole lot of hoops they have to go through before they will send you to rhummy if ibuprophen does not work go back and they will prob give you naproxen next it the way they work good luck val
    val
  • purpleunicorn
    purpleunicorn Member Posts: 67
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    That makes me feel a bit better...I am cursed with impatience so hate the whole red tape thing. I didn't want to come off diclofenac...it worked for me so not sure why he took me off. He was also questioning why I was on omeprazole.

    He did also say that even if it is RA that you just have to live with it and there's nothing can be done for it anyway! I thought that was a very odd thing to say, as surely the right meds make a world of difference?

    X
  • purpleunicorn
    purpleunicorn Member Posts: 67
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    For the love of God...are they having a laugh at this practice??? When the Gp told me I had to go for more blood tests he asked which hospital I wanted to go to. I said hospital x. I asked him for the paperwork and he said that it's all done online, and I explained that last week I had them done I needed paperwork. He said no, it would be on the system when I went to hospital.

    Then as I was leaving he mentioned hospital y...I didnlt really think about it until just now and I rang up...he has requested the bloods online ok, but the hospital he has booked me in for needs paperwork, just as I told him. I could have gone to this hospital today if they had given me said paperwork but now I have to go back in the morning to pick it up. And they expect us to trust them with our health???
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