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Your experience of getting a diagnosis

Ramblingrose

Hello

I’m new to the forums and just wondered about the assessment route everyone’s gone through.  I’m aged 64 and struggled for most of my life with health issues relating to work stress, anxiety, fatigue and digestive problems.  After watching Susan Hendrickx video presentation and doing the AQ50 and scoring highly, I realised that I am very likely autistic.  I spoke to my GP who sent me more tests and agreed that the source of my health problems is very likely to be this due to my high scores. I am also reading Susan Hendrickx book for Women with Autism and I’ve had so many lightbulb moments I’m sure this is the case!

I am now on the NHS waiting list for formal assessment and diagnosis however in this part of the world the waiting time is 4 years.  I was told by my GP that to get privately assessed it would be a fee of £1500 approximately…I just wondered how members of this forum were diagnosed? How long did you wait if it was NHS and if you had a private clinical assessment a ballpark figure of the fee’s.  I’m not really sure which way go but a 4 year wait seems an incredibly long time for an appointment.  Any feedback on experiences of the system would be much appreciated. Many thanks. 

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  • Ramblingrose said:
    I just wondered how members of this forum were diagnosed?

    I was asked by my wife to get assessed (she was already seeing a therapist for her own issues and her therapist said that her description of me indicated I may be autistic) so I went to Harley Psychiatrists, got a meetings 2 weeks later.

    The psychiatrist I met with said that I had most of the classic traits after 15 mins of questioning so he told me he would pause the session there, send me some online questionaires and use the remaining 45 mins of the £250 session to go through the results.

    I completed the questionnaires and had a meeting the following week when he gave the diagnosis and worked through what to do next.

    All in all it took 2 sessions so a total of £500 and 3 weeks then I was booking sessions with a therapist to work on understanding my condition and starting to develop ways of dealing with the issues that resulted from it.

    I passed a copy of the diagnosis to my GP who now has it on file for me. This was all 2 years ago.

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  • Ramblingrose said:
    I just wondered how members of this forum were diagnosed?

    I was asked by my wife to get assessed (she was already seeing a therapist for her own issues and her therapist said that her description of me indicated I may be autistic) so I went to Harley Psychiatrists, got a meetings 2 weeks later.

    The psychiatrist I met with said that I had most of the classic traits after 15 mins of questioning so he told me he would pause the session there, send me some online questionaires and use the remaining 45 mins of the £250 session to go through the results.

    I completed the questionnaires and had a meeting the following week when he gave the diagnosis and worked through what to do next.

    All in all it took 2 sessions so a total of £500 and 3 weeks then I was booking sessions with a therapist to work on understanding my condition and starting to develop ways of dealing with the issues that resulted from it.

    I passed a copy of the diagnosis to my GP who now has it on file for me. This was all 2 years ago.

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