Brain scan results

Sapsorrow

I'm not a regular reader here but I thought while I'm about I might as well ask. Just to point out I'm not looking for advice, just wondering how normal this is..

My boyfriend has been suffering some pretty crazy symptoms over the last few years including eye droop, intense headaches, difficulty focusing his eyes and getting weakness in one side of his body. So the doc put him on the list for a brain scan (he was on a medical card), it took nearly a whole year before he got scanned in the University hospital Cork (this was in the Autumn), they promised him they would have his results before christmas. They never arrived, he tried ringing a few times in late winter and early spring to find out what was going on and was fobbed off one way or another. It's no July and we still don't know what's going on! He won't ring them back any more because he's adamant it won't make things any different and he's really p*ssed off with them naturally. If they find that there's nothing wrong with you do they just not bother getting back to you or something or is our medical system really that f*cked? It's been over a year and a half since he was first put on the list, his symptoms are still the same and we have no clue as to whats causing them apart from maybe his medication. It's really stressful not knowing if there's something wrong with him that needs seeing to or not I almost wonder would it be worth gettin a loan out to get tested privately somewhere just in case. Is this normal proceedure or has anyone else had a similar experience?
Thanks!

sam34

ok, he needs to do two things:

a)ring his GP, who should have received a copy of his results

b)ring the secretary of the consultant who saw him and booked the scan and ask for an appointment to discuss the results and ongoing symptoms.

its possible he just slipped through the net, that someone was waiting for the results to come back before they booked him for a follow up appointment, and then someone else saw the results and assumed an appointment was already made. its not good enough, but its human error and it happens.

i wouldn't go down the road of getting into debt just yet-he has had a scan, so get the results of that first and take it from there.

N8

Agreed.

However I recommend he do both and ask for immediate appointments given the delay.

Best of luck.

Sapsorrow

Thanks guys. I brought it up again last night and he seemed softened to the idea that he might have fallen through the net, so hopefully I can get him to call them both in the next week.
Thanks again!