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Communicating with health professionals

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I have a professional job where i explain things every day to people yet I can't explain myself to the doctors. I don't know if it's just the people I encounter in the health service but I mostly feel fobbed off. I have difficulty explaining the extent of something so people don't think it's as bad as it actually is. Then on top of that, there's a sense I'm being a drama queen and "things aren't that bad". That hasn't explicitly been said but it's just the feeling I get. I would actually say, it's often when things are at their worst do I only get the help I need. And then it's like "well why didn't you see us sooner".

You can't win.

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  • The only time I've ever managed to get a GP to refer me to a specialist, I practiced for an hour a day for the 28 days that I was waiting for the GP appointment. I also wrote two pages of notes, which took three drafts to condense and make as clear as possible.

    Every other time I've been in with anything (daily diarrhea for 30+ years, suicidal thoughts, anxiety so bad I could barely leave the house) it's been dismissed. The GP uses any pause to change the subject to cervical screening (none of my issues involve the reproductive system) as they see me as an opportunity to hit their screening targets. The only way to keep them on topic is to keep talking, keep presenting information, keep hammering home the key message of "this is the problem and this is what I need from you today."

    It's exhausting.

  • in reply to HP35

    Im sorry you have bern dismissed. I wrote notes in advance but it doesn't help when they say they will ring anytime on the day. Catches me off guard.

  • in reply to Deleted User

    Oh I hate that, when they call it a phone "appointment" but unlike a real one they won't commit to a time. If they could even manage an approximate 2 hour window it would help! Phone calls are stressful anyway, but I don't like going in.

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