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No idea what to do with my GP

NInagw3

It’s been a long and tedious battle with my GP. And it’s  gotten to the stage now where I have no idea what’s going on but the doctors aren’t helping at all! 

It took a few appointments for anyone to take me seriously, and I ended up spending hours putting together questionnaires and essays to help get the referral, only the doctors lost this paperwork and now they are demanding I hand more in but I’m a little uncomfortable entrusting that information again. Isn’t there a way I could hand the paperwork into the place myself? Or just keep it with my until my referral? My doctors are not  very good with sensitive information... 

Also, while they rang me to inform me that the paperwork had been lost, they proceeded to tell me that every referral they’ve ever sent before to try and get an autism diagnosis has failed... which doesn’t give me much hope. Should I go privately? Is there another service I can use? The doctors are saying they need this paperwork so they can get funding, but I thought you only needed funding if there wasn’t a service in the are? I live in bradford and there is a service called BANDS although Ive heard they have a 3 year waiting list, but there is also LADS in Leeds that take referrals from Bradford so why do I have to get funding? 

Im really confused and I’m really stressing out. All I want to do is get diagnosed so I can get help and try to go back to university! I’m starting to loose hope that I will ever find a way to cope :(  

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  • That sounds really stressful and frustrating. Could you try contacting the diagnostic service yourself and explain the situation? Another option might be to see a different GP. Of course you'd have to start from scratch but you might get lucky and get a more sympathetic GP who won't make you jump through hoops like this.

  • in reply to Tigerbalm

    Thanks for your help. I’ve tried ringing LADS and BANDS but either no one answered the phones or it didn’t even ring. I might just go in person but they only accept referrals so they might not talk to me. 

    With the GP, there are loads in the area but they all rated terrible, and the only few that aren’t are all full. So I would probably waste more time trying to find one and wait for a space. Aaah I’m not sure though. It’s all confusing. I think I might try speak to the services and then make a plan from there. 

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  • in reply to Tigerbalm

    Thanks for your help. I’ve tried ringing LADS and BANDS but either no one answered the phones or it didn’t even ring. I might just go in person but they only accept referrals so they might not talk to me. 

    With the GP, there are loads in the area but they all rated terrible, and the only few that aren’t are all full. So I would probably waste more time trying to find one and wait for a space. Aaah I’m not sure though. It’s all confusing. I think I might try speak to the services and then make a plan from there. 

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