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I need to visit A&E again for another x-ray of my ankle - previous experience was horrible

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I need to visit A&E for another ankle x-ray on the advice of my GP now that swelling and bruising has gone down but the pain and disfigurement remains. My last visit was 3 hours long and I was not shown any care. The triage nurse didn't even look at my ankle and when I was finally called through to a nurse she asked 2 questions, touched a couple of points on my ankle and and made me limp off to x-ray. Once back in with the nurse post x-ray she quickly looked, said it wasn't broken and just sprained and that all I needed to do was RICE and put my heel on the ground. That was literally it. I can walk better now but it looks horrible and I can't wear any shoes, hence going back, but I'm scared and worried as they did not seem to care at all and made me feel incredibly stupid. I don't want them to fob me off and treat me like a time waster. For me, the pain is distracting and I am worried about the long term effects on my ankle. What would you advise?

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  • last time I looked you can buy a small x-ray machine form china on ebay for about 250 quid...

    I want to know what's going on with a toe I think I broke about 15years ago, but trying t get a casual x-ray out of the NHS is like panning for gold in a sewerage works.

    Even if you win, was it really worth the effort and crap you had to put up with? 

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  • last time I looked you can buy a small x-ray machine form china on ebay for about 250 quid...

    I want to know what's going on with a toe I think I broke about 15years ago, but trying t get a casual x-ray out of the NHS is like panning for gold in a sewerage works.

    Even if you win, was it really worth the effort and crap you had to put up with? 

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  • in reply to I Sperg

    This is incredibly dangerous. Not only are the xrays dangerous,  yiy are suggesting that someone diagnoses themselves. You have also missed the point that Autism is still not understood by many, including doctors and nurses. This does not mean we should diagnosed ourselves.

  • in reply to I Sperg

    That doesn't really help with my dilemma though. Why would I buy an x-ray machine. I just need help navigating A&E. 

  • in reply to I Sperg

    There's a hole in the market growing for competently administered quick medical services isn't there?

    Instead of the NHS,  those of us who actually want to get on with our lives instead of queining up for incompetence and third rate service will end up starting the AHS (Alternative Health Services)

    IF I was to add up all the time spent receiving doctors "services" over the years and the money wasted on prescriptions and all the malarkey and chains of people required to get the scrip honoured, to NOT correctly diagnose or fix my foot issues Versus the cost of the pot of Vicks vapour rub that actually does work. then multiply that inefficiency across the scale of the NHS, there's a considerable wastage that can be cut form the national budget.

    Mind you all those scrips they wrote for medazolan during covid, must have saved the nation a pretty penny, but nowhere near as much as we all lost to the aborted "ventilatior challenge" project. (£440m)