Issue with my GP

stevek93

Hi all,

I have an issue lately with GP or doctor, I have a health issue which I am trying to resolve or at least get an answer to. I have been sent for 2 tests which has cost me €215 and have come back with I will quote "there is no cause of concern to the patient" I have now been advised by my doctor I should attend pilates classes and will not acknowledge the concerns I have. I have tried to be reasonable with the GP and listened to his advise but be rest assured pilates is not the answer.

What can I do at this point? I still have not gotten an answer to my issue or even a medical diagnosis

OMD

stevek93 wrote: »

Hi all,

I have an issue lately with GP or doctor, I have a health issue which I am trying to resolve or at least get an answer to. I have been sent for 2 tests which has cost me €215 and have come back with I will quote "there is no cause of concern to the patient" I have now been advised by my doctor I should attend pilates classes and will not acknowledge the concerns I have. I have tried to be reasonable with the GP and listened to his advise but be rest assured pilates is not the answer.

What can I do at this point? I still have not gotten an answer to my issue or even a medical diagnosis

Hard to know. Maybe there is no medical diagnosis and "there is no cause of concern"?

If you are not happy with your GP go to a different one.

Xterminator

Hi OP

im going to be blunt here. how many years of study in college and years of experience in healthcare do you have?

because it sounds like the doctor listened to you, explored the situation; sent you for tests etc and came up with a diagnosis.
Where as you are dismissing the doctor's opinion out of hand.

Based on what? i understand you may not want to share all the details, but perhap you can ask yourself this question.

why don't you try pilates and see how you get on?

Lux23

You could go and get a second opinion I suppose. You may well have a symptom or two but that doesn't mean you have anything wrong with you.

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arrianalexander

Go to another GP and get a second opinion. It will cost you but that's the only option.

stevek93

I have given this some thought before replying.

As people have mentioned and my own judgement I think the best possible solution is to visit another doctor.

As for others more interested with my doctors recommendations I would like to add that this issue I find any actual exercise seems to make the issue worse.

Would it be worth my while visiting another doctor at the same practice or ditch them altogether?

AnneFrank

Op, I sympathise, I had a similar issue over knee and back pain, was sent for numerous mri's and given antibiotics and cortisone injections, none of which showed anything. Unless it's a textbook case they don't have a clue, or care

madmaggie

Hi OP, I find that if the problem is joint/muscle/soft tissue related, a physio is way better than a GP. Otherwise, a second opinion, and as others have said, perhaps give the pilates a try. I'm not a medical person, but the physio would be my first port of call for joint problems.

Mrs OBumble

Go to a new GP and explain the full story.

If sympathetic, ask to register there and get them to request your full records from the current one. This will include your test results. If not rinse and repeat.

If a GP recommends pilates, it should at least be clinical pilates ie run by a chartered physio. If they don't stipulate this, then run rabbit run.

Wesser

Really? If the gp doesn't stipulate this, you should leave? REALLY?
So if a gp is close by, well priced, kind, up to date, knowledgeable, thorough, you should leave because they didn't say clinical Pilates provided by a physio, they just said Pilates.

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Wesser

Sure. Of course. But you would blame your GP for this and leave her if she was perfect in every other way?

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nuac

My GP recommended Pilates, naming the Chartered Physio.

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