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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? 

  • 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 VLD

    I am.

    I am suggesting that you utilise the vast availability of information to manage your own health.

    Rather than relying entirely on "professionals" who do NOT have your interests & health as their main priority, and treat you like a serf, when you are ushered into their august prescences. 

    I know, I know, it's a lot to take in. But it can be done.

    All my friends who tell me to rush to a doctor every time I get a sniffle or a new ache, practically rattle when they walk from all the drugs they consume, and then after a while display the side effects which instead of reading the bloody bottle, (or your own copy of MIMS or the BNF) and realising what's happening to them, they return to the quack for yet more "treatment". 

    You pay n to the NHS, via your taxes, you pay for your prescriptions of whatever meds the pharma rep has written on the side of the freebies they bring this month and you are bloody lucky if you actually have the problem ever go away. 

    Or you take charge of your own health and well being to the maximum extent possible, even if it includes getting off the couch and getting out of breath several times a week, and sending a bit of time learning about your body and how it works, and most importantly of all listening to it. 

    I bet almost none of you meditate in any meaningful way. Half the battle to staying halfway healthy is to simply lie down in a quite place, get comfortable and BREATHE whilst engaging with your body properly.. 

    We treat our bodies like most of you treat your cars, you can just about manage to put fuel in and some of you can check your own fluids, (oil/water/hydraulic/brake fluid/ PS fluid for level let alone consistency colour and smell) and maybe notice a tyre gong down, but who cleans under the wheel arches, or can feel  when a suspension component is failing and identify which one?  

    Blithely outsourcing the maintenance of the things on which you rely totally like your body and your car, far from being a virtue to signal, is utter weakness, and "learned helplessness".

    There's a lot of it going around, these days.

  • in reply to I Sperg

    Can you just stop replying? This is not a post for you to push your beliefs of he NHS. 

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