DisabledAceSocialist

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It was quite amusing.

I don't think it's that nobody cares, it's that hardly anyone has any spare money right now. People help when they can.

I've had an absolutely horrible night with this UTI, it has become worse and I haven't had any sleep. Now I am having to deal with 111 - the NHS support phone line - trying to get a prescription for some antibiotics. I am so pissed off I am going to complain about this Steve wanker to the surgery and my local MP. I know they won't care or do anything about it but I am complaining anyway. When I told the phone operator at 111 what Steve said to me she was so shocked she didn't know what to say. The more time passes the more I realise how completely inappropriate he was. My landlady even said "Are you sure he actually worked there, are you sure he wasn't a mental patient who wandered in there and just started giving consultations?" She looked him up on the surgery website but he's not on there, he must be a locum. Neither of us have ever seen him before.

EDIT: Finally got a week's supply of antibiotics. My landlady drove me to the pharmacy, with the dog, who was sticking his head out the window, and parked right outside (since I'm still having problems walking). While I was waiting for it to be dispensed, the pharmacist saw the dog through the window and started squealing and cooing, "Oh, adorable. Oh, sweet little face!" Someone in the back heard her and called out "Is it a dog?" To which she replied, "Well, I wouldn't say that about a person, would I?"

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I'll try and aim for 3 litres then. I have to force myself to drink as I never feel thirsty so it's a bit difficult. If i could see a real doctor I could probably get better help but now 90% of the time if you can even get an appointment at all it turns out to be with a nurse, healthcare assistant, paramedic or someone like that and they often even admit they don't know what to do. Last time I had an appointment and it turned out to be with the nurse she said she didn't know and would ask the GP and then they just never got back to me. I'm so tired of what a struggle it is to get healthcare. Not only that but because you see a different person each time, there's no continuity, and no holistic approach to treatment. When there were the same few regular doctors here, they all knew me and if I had a problem, they already knew my health issues and would consider the problem in relation to them. Having a different rando each time, none of them know me or my problems and so nothing like that gets taken into account. Today for instance towards the end of the appointment I mentioned to this Steve person that I'd had thyroid cancer and a stroke and he said something like "Oh, did you?" in a surprised tone, he hadn't even read my medical notes, knew nothing about me. How can anyone get adequate medical care like this? I've been thinking about complaining about this to my local MP but he is totally useless too. This entire country needs to be nuked.

Well, he hasn't sent me to an expert, he just said there's a chance I might get sent at some point.

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My bladder irritation got so much worse a few days ago, I started to think I might have a UTI. But of course you can't just get a doctor's appointment any more. They won't see people for a UTI at first, you have to go to the pharmacist to get antibiotics, which I did. They haven't worked so today I asked for a doctor's appointment. My landlady drove me down there, with the dog in the car. The dog had his head out the window and a scruffy man came by and patted and talked to him. I did manage to get an appointment but it wasn't with a doctor. They try to palm you off on non-doctors like the practice nurse, healthcare assistant, or even paramedics now instead of an actual doctor.

So I went to the appointment, and the person clearly wasn't a doctor. The doctors are dressed smartly, wear suits and introduce themselves as Dr Whoever. This man was very scruffy with week-old stubble and a tatty, unclean T-shirt. He introduced himself as Steve but didn't mention his job description. He had a paramedic bag in the room, so maybe he was a paramedic. I told him the issue and I feel he was inappropriate.

First of all he asked if I was the person with the dog - turned out it was him who'd been patting him when he was in the car. He then spent ages banging on about how he fosters rescue dogs, getting his phone out and showing me all their pictures. When he finally got on to the medical issue and I explained my UTI symptoms and the fact my blood tests had been showing low kidney function and what should I do about it because maybe it is related to my issues, he said there's nothing you can do about low kidney function. Your kidneys just deteriorate when you're old and that's that. It doesn't sound right to me but I don't know enough to argue about it.

I said the antibiotics hadn't worked and asked for more. He did a urine strip test which showed an infection but he refused to give me more antibiotics, saying they're bad for you and all I need to do is drink water. He showed me his two-litre water bottle and said I should be drinking four of those a day. 8 litres a day, seriously? The NHS website says you should drink 1.5 litres a day. He then started talking about how Buddhist monks never get ill because all they consume is "grass and water," and told me I shouldn't eat meat because when you eat meat it stays inside you for years and rots.

He then started talking about my V@g1n@. (sorry don't know if people will complain about the use of this word and tell me to censor it). He seemed to think UTIs are in your V. He started asking about it, and telling me to soak it in the bath because it's "too acidic" and that's what's causing my problems. I said I only have a shower and he told me that when I'm sitting on the toilet I should get a bucket of water and pour it over my V to clean it. He went on and on about it with a weird look on his face, I honestly felt creeped out and violated. I very much got the impression it was some kind of power play that he could force a female patient to sit there and listen to him going on about her V when that isn't even the body part in question.

Then he started banging on about dogs again and asking 100 questions about my landlady's dog. Never had a medical professional behave like this before.

So the whole thing was horrid. The only useful thing was he said he'd make sure they check my kidneys again when they do my next blood test next week and maybe I could get a referral to a urologist.

I feel this. Society tells me I'm a burden - even my pharmacist complained to me about how much money I cost the NHS. Many people have told me I'm a burden on the taxpayer when I've been in receipt of disability payments, and the DWP makes it nearly impossible to get, and keep these payments, which is why I have to beg for food and everything else I need at the moment. Society resents my existence for costing it money. But when I say I want assisted suicide, it's "NO! You can't have that! Your life is precious, we can't do it, you must continue to live!" Like, make your minds up.

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My first actual treatment starts on 30th, so I'll find out then!

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