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Originally posted by Bad wolfI claim no superior knowledge in such matters, but in the (thankfully) few situations where such worrisome matters have arisen amongst friends and family, I have noticed that in recent years, our hospitals (and I make that distinction as against GPs) are VERY prompt to escalate to specialist attention if there are any doubts.
No, I don't have private healthcare, and fortunately I am in good health, for the most part, but at least I can rely on the NHS if need be, even if it is slack it's better than nothing; my worry lies for people who can't afford private healthcare, and they have nothing like the NHS to fall back on...
Hope your leg is better, same with your headache Bot6, hope everything turns out alright in the end with it.
How one gauges this against the risk of being sued is a matter of conjecture, but as long as it brings such a reaction, then it is for the good.
What I'm saying here is that, whilst your torment may continue for a time to be just that, Bot6, if it was something awful, I genuinely think that a far greater fuss would have been made by now.
They haven't admitted you immediately for CAT, they've made an appointment.
My own wife had felt, in her words, "just not right" for about 6 months.
She was listless, if not exhausted, before the afternoon was half over.
She'd made 5 visits to our GP in that time.
He was convinced she was "off on one".
Our previous experience (12 years) with that GP gave us no reason to think he was wrong.
To my eternal guilt, well....guys.... you know what I mean, and what I thought...
It was Boxing Day, and we were just sitting down with the In-Laws for crackers, party hats and turkey.
Michelle (my wife) was in tears....she just didn't want any, which was madness, because, like most "little girls", she just loved Christmas, and everything that went with it, tradition, mince pies.....turkey...all of it.
Finally, my father-in-law said, "enough", and whisked her off to casualty.
Within two hours, she was on oxygen, and remained on its benefits, two hours in every 24, for the next 6 weeks...plus a variety of other ventilators and inhaled susbstances (though none that provided a decent buzz, she says).
In that time, they "siphoned" one and three-quarter pints of what I can only describe as "black, stringy, goo" from her right lung.
To cut a long story short, it was pneumonia...precisely the strain that killed Charlotte Bronte, apparently.....50 years ago, if you got it, you died, period...it was THAT bad.
But, thanks to a sharp-eyed intern, and an hospital's desire/fear to get it right....
....the little bitch is still fine and dandy, dammit.
(true story, last line for mirth effect)
All the best Bot6.....
Originally posted by yo its meanother epidural would be the worst thing. its the epidural that caused it in the first place. lets put it this way. the human spine was never intended to have holes poked in it, as soon as a hole is poked in your spine your brain detects a loss of presure in CSF (cerebrospinal fluid) whitch causes the ventricles in your brain to produce more CSF.
Bot6 have they offered you a second epidural? That's what they offer Mums who had the pain releive in labour, and got the headache.
what i dont understand is that the hole is healed but theres still headaches.
Originally posted by bot 6I've had two and it was only the pain that swayed me because I had heard about the headaces. So I was very scared to have them.
another epidural would be the worst thing. its the epidural that caused it in the first place. lets put it this way. the human spine was never intended to have holes poked in it, as soon as a hole is poked in your spine your brain detects a loss of presure in CSF (cerebrospinal fluid) whitch causes the ventricles in your brain to produce more CSF.
what i dont understand is that the hole is healed but theres still headaches.
I know it makes no sence but I know a Mum for whom having a second worked.
I really feel for you this must be so horrible to be having the headace so long Bot 6.
#Big hug#