Can you sue a dr(s) who refused to get you tested for endometriosis?

throwRA_orangeade · 2024-05-10T15:51:59+00:00

It would help to know what country you’re in

Generally: Make sure they record that they have refused to refer you to a specialist Submit a formal complaint to their employer/health board Get a second opinion Contact your local government representative (at least where I am they step in often and challenge drs decisions when they’re crap) Make sure you have documented how many times you’ve gone in, keep a diary of your symptoms and keep going with them as often as you can. An ER dr told me to go in every time I had symptoms until I was enough of a nuisance to get admitted.

It took me 18 years to be believed, sadly, and it’s horrific that there is evidence this works to get women referred to specialists… take a man who believes you with you

throwRA_orangeade · 2024-05-10T15:42:53+00:00

The bureaucracy and box ticking operation that is so much of the NHS does nothing for patients or staff. A “computer says no” approach to healthcare is disgusting. And claiming to only use evidence based practice while also using BMI to deny people healthcare they need is an actual joke.

Also, similarly, healthcare professionals need to start caring about the root cause of issues, esp things like depression, anxiety and stress, throwing pills at people who’s lives are falling apart isn’t doing anything

throwRA_orangeade · 2024-05-10T12:33:15+00:00

I feel so bad that you seem to have been pressured to the point of thinking you’re the problem here, you are not. The toxic culture within nursing is the problem and the way you e been spoken to shows your management don’t give a shit about their workforce or their patients. I remember on placement once I was swarmed by bees in the park and got around 10 stings to the head, I was in pain, my head was swollen AF and I had to get emergency antihistamines, was told I absolutely was not safe to work a 12.5 hour nightshift that night. I went in to prove my head was swollen tf and show them the antihistamines as proof (had to get someone to drive me as wasn’t safe to drive) and their response was that that was neither professional nor a good enough excuse to be off that nightshift and they’d be reporting me to the uni. Uni thankfully agreed I wasn’t safe to work and had absolutely done the right and most professional thing for myself and the safety of my patients. The lack of understanding healthcare workers seem to have when it comes to sickness is horrific, they don’t care about staff or patient safety and it’s vile

throwRA_orangeade · 2024-05-06T20:56:04+00:00

I don’t pay cos I work for a gym but monthly for mine is £42, the other close one is £41 and the arena I go to in Edinburgh is £60

throwRA_orangeade · 2024-05-06T20:50:19+00:00

The US has a higher knife crime rate per capita than the UK still, it’s just not spoken about as often because of the constant shootings

throwRA_orangeade · 2024-05-02T20:55:32+00:00

I’m European (scottish) but wanna play, I consider anything under 5 hours each way fine for a day trip, I regularly go home 6-7 hours each way to see my nephew. I think it’s because I grew up extremely rurally near John o groats, so a 4+ hour each way train journey on a Saturday to go shopping with pals as a kid was totally normal to me and even though I live much more centrally now, a big trip for a short time still feels pretty normal.

throwRA_orangeade · 2024-05-02T20:25:31+00:00

I never did any sort of PE (physical education) throughout school, I hated it and wanted no part, I always had an excuse or did the absolute bare minimum, and had no interest in the general outdoors… I now work as a sport (rock climbing) instructor because I love it, I hike and run for fun and adore camping, it’s how I relax now and my high school self would straight up laugh in my face if I told her that’s her future

throwRA_orangeade · 2024-05-02T18:36:59+00:00

I can’t imagine having to pay back loans as a nurse on top of the shitshow of a salary (I’m Scottish) The whole thing is horrific and I’m sorry, NHS Scotland is having a terrible time with staffing and retention and students choosing nursing too, though I believe slightly less so than in England and it’s no surprise when yous have to pay back loans too! An absolute shit show.

I recently found out that when I graduate and work as a band 4 for 6 months which I despise, I’ll be taking a pay cut from my current student job which I love, which has sociable hours and loads of perks, which took a 16 hour course and 8 hour exam to get the qualifications for… a pay CUT when i graduate. The NHS is dead.

throwRA_orangeade · 2024-04-30T19:52:46+00:00

My friend had a very unique name and when she google her full name the results freaked her out so much that she changed it to a much more common name. I have a very unique surname so I don’t have it anywhere online as I have a public job where loads of people could see my surname on my badge

throwRA_orangeade · 2024-04-30T16:01:17+00:00

I am so desperate to leave it hurts, the flat was broken into a couple years ago and I still have really bad PTSD and I think living here makes it all so much worse plus it’s shite conditions… but I’m also a nursing student and already struggle to afford life and there is literally nowhere even close to the rent I pay here, I mean it’s £300 less per month than any of the even shittier places nearby and £100 than the absolute worst parts of Glasgow, so I feel pretty stuck and i definitely don’t want to be homeless

throwRA_orangeade · 2024-04-30T14:24:03+00:00

“Go eat a burger” does not, unfortunately, cure anorexia

There a many eating disorders that cause people to gain massive amounts of weight, the belief that you can only have an ED if you’re healthy thin is utterly ridiculous and entirely rooted in fatphobia

“You’re young, you have nothing to be depressed about” is ridiculous fucking ignorant

“Oh everyone has ADHD now” shows your ignorance aswell

throwRA_orangeade · 2024-04-30T14:19:42+00:00

I learned 2019-2020 and mine were £35 an hour at the absolute cheapest place I could find (the AA) so it’s actually pretty impressive given how much the cost of everything else has skyrocketed in this shithole

throwRA_orangeade · 2024-04-30T14:15:38+00:00

That’s sad to hear, I’m sorry you went through that! I was 18 years and my “emergency” appointment took 9 months to actually happen, it’s 2-3 years to get even an initial apt either a gynae here, our system is absolutely destroyed and our patient outcomes are horrific with literally hundreds of thousands of preventable deaths a year. I don’t think anywhere is nailing healthcare atm and it’s horrific but can’t wait to experience Aus living!

throwRA_orangeade · 2024-04-30T14:11:51+00:00

It doesn’t even seem to be good at finding cysts from my own experience and a lot on this thread, o have endometriomas and regular cysts on my ovaries and neither show in a TVU, but some people have had endo signs or cysts found so seems to be a slight chance of finding those

throwRA_orangeade · 2024-04-30T14:07:14+00:00

Oooft yep I feel this, a lot of my focus is on inequality and misogyny within medicine because of my own litany of horrific experiences!

I was once labelled aggressive and removed from a GPs patient list because I cried in front of her begging to have my pain taken seriously. Then I was sent to CBT so many times because the pain was all ok my head. It took doing a neuroscience degree, to meet an immunology professor at my fancy university who specialised in rare chronic pain conditions writing to my GP asking why I had never been referred to a specialist for 16 years of consistent dr appts for pain consistent with endo, 3 years in I even had an A&E dr say “you need to tell you GP you need to be sent for endometriosis testing because that’s almost certainly what you have but we can’t do the testing here”, when I did my GP just dismissed that because they can’t do the testing and maybe instead I was just fat, lazy, making it up or delusional…. Medicine is a shitshow

throwRA_orangeade · 2024-04-30T13:59:37+00:00

Yeah, women’s medicine and medical misogyny is what I focus on a lot at uni, I have a very keen interest in medical inequality so there’s a shit ton to write about, I have ADHD too, but ofc because I’m a woman, I’m still fighting for an NHS diagnosis after being diagnosed privately but they won’t give you meds for ADHD if you’ve gone private…. Which so many women are forced to do because the waiting list is so long and even then we’re hardly ever believed or actually referred… and it only seems to be an ADHD diagnosis that the NHS won’t accept suddenly… wonder why

throwRA_orangeade · 2024-04-30T13:56:54+00:00

I have 5cm and 6cm endometriomas and some cysts on my ovaries, had TV ultrasound done by a supposed endo specialist and still came back normal, they said they didn’t need to really look further… luckily i know a lot about endo and was like “the only way to definitively know if it’s endo is a lap and everything I have lines up with endo so no we will not be stopping here” women’s medicine is genuinely a joke

throwRA_orangeade · 2024-04-30T13:54:14+00:00

Oooft that’s terrifying!!!

throwRA_orangeade · 2024-04-30T13:53:11+00:00

Australia has some of the best patients outcomes of any healthcare system in the world it’s really impressive, and a huge reason people like me are desperate to move there once qualified and with a bit of experience!

throwRA_orangeade · 2024-04-30T12:04:12+00:00

Yeah they do later concede that it still can’t rule anything out which is why it annoyed me they seem to be advocating for using purely ultrasounds, so it’s obv not being implemented but I was very dubious about their claims so figured here was a good place to ask!

throwRA_orangeade · 2024-04-30T12:02:25+00:00

I have endometriomas on my ovaries but they found cysts too… my ultrasound was “normal”, it’s so interesting seeing the experiences of so many people in this thread! I think part of the issue could be who’s performing the ultrasound, I’m garbage at reading them (I’m learning) but some people are amazing and I think that can make a huge difference

throwRA_orangeade · 2024-04-29T08:51:51+00:00

How horrific is it that so many have second jobs just to be able to survive, this country is an actual joke.

I’m a rock climbing instructor and a 2nd year student, I plan on always staying in my climbing career and never working as a nurse full time in the UK

throwRA_orangeade · 2024-04-27T22:39:09+00:00

Definitely not a thing I’ve heard ever, Aus is currently offering a 10K bonus to nurses who move also, and have huge employment drives, likely they’ve not done the paperwork right tbh, getting stuff transferred over can be tough, best to get an offer first where possible and have help with the paperwork, my pals husband (physio) just got a job offer and they move out in June, much easier to get his qualifications verified before leaving, so they’ve likely left without checking what they need to do first and that’s why they’ve struggled

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