My nerves are shot and I don't have the emotional capacity to wait weeks for an appointment.
Next week I will know whether or not I need a hysteroscopy. Now I know I should wait until then but I need to be prepared. Maybe some of you will have some wisdom for me.
I didn't have health insurance until this week so that doesn't count for this. I can pay myself but there's a limit to what I can afford.
I have found a clinic in the UK who will do this procedure and biopsy if needed within 2 weeks. If the news isn't good then what do I do with the result? I can't afford private treatment in the UK (one round of chemo is £30k). Can I bring the results back to my gynae here and be at the mercy of the public system?
Or can I seek a private referral here? If so and the news is bad would treatment as a self paying patient be astronomical here as well?
I've no advice,but I'd imagine if you seen a consultant (maybe privately),they'll soon set you on the path for what's needed...I'd be surprised if scan couldn't be done here,alot of private places here now
FWIW an aunt of mine had same issue during middle of COVID,got it really early before spread,and got womb removed,was only in overnight....
Since made a complete recovery with no sign of return in last checkup few weeks ago...
Edit: I hope it's a thing of nothing and you'll be ok
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Years ago I attended a clinic in Polish clinic stoneybatter, it was in a shopping mall with a Tesco larger than a Tesco metro or express but not as big as Tesco Rathmines.
Can't remember the name. Slightly cheaper then. The female Doctor I attended specialised in gut ailments. I'm sure the language barrier is aliveated now. Russian and Polish doctors also a dental practice.
I don't have the expertise to answer the medical implications but for what it's worth I have gone private for examinations where I would otherwise have to wait. Like you, my nerves can't take the wait. In a couple of instances over the years I paid for exams in northern Ireland, so same as UK. Especially re gynaecological issues .....like symptoms suggest ovarian cancer but hey let's get you on this long list for a scan. No way!
Consider how much we put into our cars. Don't skimp on yourself.
I have had a couple of medical procedures to fix stuff done privately too as I could not stomach the long public waiting list. I've no private medical insurance. The procedures were about a couple of grand each, so nowhere like the cost of chemo - which please God, you will never never need. Don't think about that now. Find out what is going on.
My opinion - maybe wrong - is you can bring your test results to your doctor and they will expedite referrals based on it. There are routes to speed things up once diagnostic tests are in hand. Thankfully my results were always fine so far, so I've not needed to test this. But for your mental health I totally concur with paying to get quicker tests. The system here is disastrous. I've seen loved ones suffer so much due to delays.
Don't think. Just do what you need to mind yourself. Xxxx
Thinking out loud, and trying to be occasionally less wrong...
My advice is to pay privately for a consultant and tests here, if anything sinister shows up you'll be referred for public treatment without having to wait however many months/years for a public consultation.
I'd also advise anyone without health insurance to take it out today, it will get you so called elective procedures within weeks rather than years as a public patient.
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Agree with other posters - my VHI is a godsend and not for anything serious but procedures I would wait years just to see a consultant for were done in a few months.
Definitely try to explore the options to go to the North, I think we have some sort of agreement where our citizens can be treated up there and theirs down here and each Government pays - correct me if I am wrong guys!!
Edit - forgot to add, best wishes Diamonds, hope you recover soon!
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“I may not agree with what you have to say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.” - Voltaire
I know what some would try in this situation - turn up at A&E of a hospital that has this specialty (on a weekday and having checked the trolley watch figures beforehand) complaing of pain and unusual bleeding. Then try to get talking to an enthusiastic/idealistic young NCHD and push to get the test done. Not sure if this would work or not and not recommending it anyway as this sort of thing contributes to health service chaos.
PlaneSpeeking wrote: ↑Wed Aug 16, 2023 1:05 pm
Agree with other posters - my VHI is a godsend and not for anything serious but procedures I would wait years just to see a consultant for were done in a few months.
Definitely try to explore the options to go to the North, I think we have some sort of agreement where our citizens can be treated up there and theirs down here and each Government pays - correct me if I am wrong guys!!
Edit - forgot to add, best wishes Diamonds, hope you recover soon!
The treatment purchase scheme covers EU countries, so it's well worth getting a diagnosis here.
If you get it in the UK I don't know if you need to be referred to a consultant here, but I'd imagine bureaucracy would slow the whole process down.
You can claim 20% tax back on the cost of consultancy fees and diagnostic tests too.
Get onto your GP for an urgent referral, hopefully it's not as serious as you fear. Oh, and stay off Google, you'll drive yourself demented.
The gynae has referred me to the Rotunda. I'm not waiting weeks and weeks to be seen. My GP will give me info about the best pathway and hopefully a bit of reassurance. She knows me and has all my medical history. I'm not a wait and see type of person so I need to know how to proceed.
I put health insurance on the long finger and now here I am.
And I've become superstitious
I saw three women today wearing the same items of clothing that I own and I saw my ex for the first time in a number of years. Portends of doom I said to myself. When I was a kid we used to call psychiatric hospitals 'the mental' well that's where I'll be after this.
It's natural for us witches to start experiencing apophenia / pareidolia and looking for portents at times of stress. But I almost always find these are the times when ones skills at prophecy are at their very weakest.
Do what has to be done in a timely manner. That's your only task.
It's horrible to be caught up in anxiety, but also natural. I can't say stop it, because it's the most normal thing in the world to feel like you are shitting it. Be good to yourself x
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isha wrote: ↑Wed Aug 16, 2023 5:16 pm
It's natural for us witches to start experiencing apophenia / pareidolia and looking for portents at times of stress. But I almost always find these are the times when ones skills at prophecy are at their very weakest.
Do what has to be done in a timely manner. That's your only task.
It's horrible to be caught up in anxiety, but also natural. I can't say stop it, because it's the most normal thing in the world to feel like you are shitting it. Be good to yourself x
Thank you Isha. There are things to learn as I manage this
Berties_Horse wrote: ↑Thu Aug 17, 2023 1:41 am
Ah, success. The filthy allure succeeded. Didn't take a breath for the scutter brothers to deploy a "minion' on the case.
Your post was classless and uncalled for and I have no clue wtf a scutter junkie is, let alone wish to be a minion of it.
This is about a woman discussing health issues and you mock, pathetic.
“I may not agree with what you have to say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.” - Voltaire
If there's posts fit for deletion, that post and the quotes of it are good candidates. It's a thread that doesn't deserve that kind of disrespectful intrusion.
Thinking out loud, and trying to be occasionally less wrong...
Try and take it one step at a time and not think too far ahead (what ifs etc). Easier said than done of course but the more certainty you get, the easier it should become. If you feel pressure from third parties (normal life stuff intruding) then think of yourself and take a step back. I've been guilty of not doing this in past until someone pointed out to me that sometimes you got to be selfish for your own good.
nlgbbbblth wrote: ↑Thu Aug 17, 2023 7:04 pm
Hope all works out ok Diamonds
Try and take it one step at a time and not think too far ahead (what ifs etc). Easier said than done of course but the more certainty you get, the easier it should become. If you feel pressure from third parties (normal life stuff intruding) then think of yourself and take a step back. I've been guilty of not doing this in past until someone pointed out to me that sometimes you got to be selfish for your own good.
All the best.
Thank you I have more information about wait times and where to go etc and I had a chat with my own GP. So I feel reassured. The stats are in my favour but my own self is a horror for worry.
I can take an emotional battering, deal with being hurt, the guilt of hurting others, old traumas, loss, all of that I have a huge capacity of resilience for. But even the tiniest sign that my health isn't as it should be and I disintegrate.
My doctor gave me a cert for work so I'll use it and that will help with the old nerves.
I have more information about wait times and where to go etc and I had a chat with my own GP. So I feel reassured. The stats are in my favour but my own self is a horror for worry.