"Dr. Andrew B. Chung, MD/PhD" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:<[email hidden]>...
Quoted message said:Would suggest you see a cardiologist as soon as possible.<<<<<<<<<
Dear Andrew,
I went to see a cardiologist 31st Dec(after all these weeks of waiting) and all he wants to do is
look in my stomach and do another stress test, so I'll be put on another waiting list for that and
will have to wait until those are done if I need to see him again.
They weighed me (without height measurement) took my blood pressure and did an ecg for a few
seconds, that was it; all of which could have been done at GP surgery. I am overweight, so I expect
he decided it must be stomach, which it may be anyway. I don't think that he thought I knew where my
own heart and lungs are though and I am convinced that he had decided what he was going to do before
I even put a foot in the room, despite me protesting that it was my heart.
I will admit that last year I was booked in for an angiogram at our local hospital, but I was having
long term ladies problems which resulted in a transfusion, so I was feeling too unwell, someone also
told me that they had given someone MRSA during an angiogram that month, there's no cardiologist
there, I had been pushed (literally) onto a tread mill despite the fact I couldn't walk as fast as
it went, and the final straw was when I had a letter telling me that I couldn't have anyone with me
because there was no space, so I cancelled it (we do mad things in panic when we are not feeling
well). When I had this other incident I asked to be sent elsewhere, hence this appointment I've just
had. It seemed a sensible thing to ask at the time, but in hindsight it probably wasn't.
I actually find the process of hospital appointments, the waiting etc... quite overwhelming. I
really, really don't like it, I've had too many years of it when I had an overactive thyroid and
then when I was left without thyroxin after a thyroidectomy. I also had an operation to
investigate the lady's problems and wasn't given part of the anaesthetic so I was awake, sheer
fright stopped me going back for quite a while. When they start asking questions about my medical
history it gets to me.
I am dieting using the Slimming World diet now, which is in effect food combining. It's OK as long
as I remember which foods I have been eating that day. Food is a good self medicine for a while, but
it's like most medicines it becomes detrimental in the end and defeats the object. Feasts are good
medicine for the heart and soul (and those who can prepare them should thank God for such a
'special' gift because they bring people together in great joy); picking and overeating is bad
medicine which we take unwittingly to self help. I've taken a lot of bad medicine, not much of it
taken joyfully :o(
Anyway I have cardicor 5mg (low dose because I once had propanalol which effected my liver),
aspirin, a nitrate spray, 175 mg thyroxin and pain killers when I need them. I found out about the
cardiac antibodies because I asked the GP to test me for Lupus as I have been having rashes,
alopecia, dizziness, this heart and chest pain, joint/muscle pains and various neurological problems
(or the most sever stress reaction ever!) as well as having dry eyes.
Apparently the Lupus tests were negative, which makes me feel a little daft for asking now. I am
frustrated and puzzled more than worried about it as it's like my body plays tricks on me, it used
to worry me a lot. I had to give up a job I quite liked about 3 years ago because I've been too
unwell to work, so I've been unable to pay NI, which means no sick pay, pension etc. I simply can't
believe the quantity of doctors employed by Social Services as medical policemen, when people are in
need of them for practicing medicine, it's obscene.
We are very blessed though because my husband earns enough and we don't really have the need for
me to work. We don't have lots of spare money for private tests though.
Today I feel OK, and today matters, so I am well at the moment.
Carol T
