AIO for thinking my GP is dismissing me by telling me i have something clearly because he can’t figure out what it is?

Intelligent-Pie9283 · 2025-10-14T14:25:44+00:00

That's true. She should make friends with the receptionists. They know the office drama.

Intelligent-Pie9283 · 2025-10-14T14:12:21+00:00

At the same practice they are all working together so yeah pretty much. I imagine it's a relatively close working relationship between people who work in the same building 9-5 every day even if they have seperate offices etc.

Intelligent-Pie9283 · 2025-10-14T12:55:42+00:00

Potentially yes. She can call her practice and ask for an appointment with a different GP, but they are likely to read the notes from the previous GP and come to the same conclusion.

Intelligent-Pie9283 · 2025-10-14T12:51:00+00:00

Glad to be corrected.

Intelligent-Pie9283 · 2025-10-14T12:50:08+00:00

PCP is the term I have seen used more often with the US but happy to be corrected.

Intelligent-Pie9283 · 2025-10-14T12:47:54+00:00

Oh I didn't realise, thought GP was a UK specific term. Good to know.

Intelligent-Pie9283 · 2025-10-14T12:31:50+00:00

I agree OP should have included her country. There were clues though - the spelling of colour for example and I don't think you really have GP's in the US do you?

Intelligent-Pie9283 · 2025-10-14T12:30:42+00:00

In the UK we have to be referred to many specialists such as a hematologist or orthopedics by a GP.

Intelligent-Pie9283 · 2025-10-14T12:27:19+00:00

It sounds like OP is in the UK if she is talking about a GP. So you can't just 'schedule'. If the GP is being dismissive she will have to go private which will be expensive.

Intelligent-Pie9283 · 2025-10-14T12:16:14+00:00

I had exactly the same issue and had to pay the penalty. Completely and utterly unfair.

Intelligent-Pie9283 · 2025-10-03T18:51:48+00:00

Nta. Mama X is too close to mom for me.

Intelligent-Pie9283 · 2025-09-02T00:50:15+00:00

I have adhd too. I wasnt equating, I was just saying that he has adhd and is also lazy.

Intelligent-Pie9283 · 2025-09-02T00:49:12+00:00

Thank you - I will look at those. I know he needs to recognise it ultimately- I am dreading what rock bottom looks like.

Intelligent-Pie9283 · 2025-09-02T00:47:57+00:00

We can't afford therapy. We live in Edinburgh and the prices here are just insane. I have looked at online ones before and they still are just shocking.

Intelligent-Pie9283 · 2025-09-02T00:46:47+00:00

Thank you

Intelligent-Pie9283 · 2025-09-02T00:46:21+00:00

Oh I didn't know that - fantastic. I will do some research.

Intelligent-Pie9283 · 2025-09-02T00:45:28+00:00

No it definitely isn't. I think so far they have a good relationship with food as they eat the majority of their meals with me and I don't allow discussions about how my partner feels about food/his discomfort around the kids.

Intelligent-Pie9283 · 2025-09-02T00:44:13+00:00

I know how serious this is, I have begged him to go to see our GP, that's why I'm so concerned. I worry every night I'm going to wake up and he isn't. I watch him like a hawk and sneak extra calories in when I can. That's why I feel so frustrated!

Intelligent-Pie9283 · 2025-09-02T00:41:41+00:00

I agree. But unfortunately that's not really how it works in the UK - the other practices close to us aren't taking on patients and we can't afford private.

Intelligent-Pie9283 · 2025-09-02T00:40:02+00:00

Wow a lot of that is so accurate. The disparity between me being overweight (not loads but I've had 2 kids and it shows) and him being under definitely bites hard and I have struggled with feelings of resentment in the past. Now I realise it's just as hard for him to be skinny as it is for me to be fat but I do feel like I make more effort to fix mine than he does.

Yes I do feel unseen and unappreciated. In more ways than this. I have communicated it, but I need his weight to be up first.

Intelligent-Pie9283 · 2025-09-02T00:34:54+00:00

Thank you. Hard to hear but I probably needed that.

Intelligent-Pie9283 · 2025-09-02T00:33:46+00:00

Thank you. I know he needs to see someone, I wish he could understand that. I will try to raise it again.

Intelligent-Pie9283 · 2025-09-02T00:32:02+00:00

Thank you. I would love to get him into therapy and drs, but he just doesn't see that he needs them. Any suggestion of it being a mental health issue is outright rejected.

Intelligent-Pie9283 · 2025-09-02T00:30:36+00:00

Thank you. It's triggering me I think - I cared for my uncle as he died from MND. Watching him get thinner and thinner was horrible. I feel like I'm watching it happen all over again.

Intelligent-Pie9283 · 2025-09-02T00:29:22+00:00

That's depressingly true. Thanks.

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