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FormerMember
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Hello all.. Has been a while since i have blogged.

I am feeling sorry for myself and thought it would be a good time to sit down and get it off my chest.

The cough is driving me mad and i cannot seem to shake it. The GP  just fills me up with antibiotics. At night time i cannot sleep as the pain where my hernia is, is very tender to touch. I have been waiting for my yearly check up which is over due. I always get the feeling that the GP is sick of seen me,

I think of death all the time and wonder if there is another tumour growing at a rapid pace, My Urine is frothy and i have lots of UTI (urinery tract infections)

My Iron level is 103 so am having weekly injections ( b12 )

What do i have to do to get someone to listen, no one is taking me seriously and i know that there is some thing wrong.

I am a small 50kg women and have to take my watch off at night now cause my wrists swell up. It feels like my ankles are swollen when i walk but they are not.

 can anyone give me some advise in how to get this through to my GP without her thinking it is all in my head.... Trust me its not... I cant even talk to my husband about it as he always says GO TO THE DOCTER AND DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT.

For you that dont know me, I had my Kidney out October 2008 and the adrenal gland prior to that i lost my spleen so have no immune system.

Phew,,,  Well ive got that off my chest and now dabbing the tears, but do feel a little better.

Jill D New Zealand

Anonymous

  • Hi Jill

    Am so sorry you are feeling so poorly.

    Don't feel guilty about going to see your doc. That is what he is there for. I was lucky that when I had terrible pains in my ribs and had convinced myself that the cancer was in my bones my GP referred me back to the hospital for a bone scan within 2 weeks. Luckily it was clear. I do not think people realise just how frightened we are and need to be reassured.

    Hope you get a positive outcome.

    Have heard from friends who have emigrated to NZ that the system there is slow. They have gone private now but it should not have to come to that.

    Good Luck

    Sue x x

  • FormerMember
    FormerMember

    Jill, get yourself back to your Doctors

    and insist he or she sends you for tests.

    You know your body, and if  it dont feel

    right then it aint right. It seems the norm

    now for Doctors to ignore a patients

    concern and worry about symptoms thay

    are having, then when eventually they

    are sent for test its to bloody late to do

    anything, even more so that you dont

    have an immune system, so are open to

    infections. Dont take no for an answer

    Jill, get yourself to your doctors as soon

    as.

    With Love Lucylee. xxx

  • FormerMember
    FormerMember

    Hi Jill

    Just wanted to try and reassure you with regards to the UTIs you're having. I'm currently undergoing chemotherapy after having bowel cancer so my immune system is very low at times. I have had so many UTI's since my op, more since then than the previous 30 years! My urine is frothy and cloudy and I've taken so many antibiotics I'm beginning to rattle. I don't  know if this makes you feel any better, but I hope it does. You should definitely pester your GP until something is done. Any of us would be worried at any new symptom. I know that I'll be pestering my GP in the future, but am I worried about doing that? No I am not!!

    Angela xx

  • FormerMember
    FormerMember

    awww jill... boy, your having a tough time just now,your right we all worry about new "symptoms" when you have or had cancer everything that changes is scary.... hate to agree with your hubby... but really... you should check it out ... even if its only to put your mind at rest... we all have wobbly moments jill.... but you will get through it... you know you will...

    take care ....thinking of you

    liz xxxx

  • FormerMember
    FormerMember

    Awww thanks everyone for  sending there blogs. I think the word Demand should be said when i go to my GP.

    Thanks everyone xxx

    Jill

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