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  • DisabledAceSocialist [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    3 days ago

    I haven’t been too active here the past few days as I haven’t been feeling great. The pins and needles/tingling spread to my face, maybe it’s a migraine? No idea. One of the surgical wounds on my feet is infected and I can’t get medical help. I tried to get a doctor’s appointment yesterday, the receptionist said a doctor would phone me, I waited all day but they didn’t. So I asked the pharmacist to prescribe me antibiotics but he said he can’t do that because he’s a locum and I have to wait for the regular pharmacist to come back. As I am waiting for the car repair I can’t travel any further (the GP/pharmacy is about 10 houses down from me so I can get there without a car, although even that is difficult right now with my foot issues) so I am not going to the hospital for this - I don’t want to sit there for 10 hours waiting to be seen anyway. So I’ve put an iodine patch on it and I’m hoping that will get rid of the infection. Normally I prefer not to use antibiotics for infected surgical wounds and prefer to use iodine patches instead but the iodine doesn’t seem to be working quite as well this time.

    The neurologist gave me a follow-up phone appointment about my migraines and has pressured me into accepting a new migraine preventative drug. The big problem with this is, it’s not safe to take an acute treatment with it. So if the preventative doesn’t work and I get a terrible migraine, am I supposed to just grin and bear it? And I mentioned my pins and needles, as it could be neurological, and asked for an appointment to get checked out and she said she doesn’t deal with other neurological issues, she only deals with migraines! What the hell? I thought if you’re a neurologist you deal with all neurological issues but apparently not. She said if I want a neurologist to check me out for this I have to ask the GP to refer me and be on a waiting list for about a year. Not to mention how difficult it is to even get a GP appointment now. It is just so difficult and exhausting trying to access medical treatment these days.

    And due to the foot/leg issues my further foot surgery is going to be postponed. I don’t know how long for. At least the previous surgeries got rid of most of the problem, what remains will have to be treated with topical treatments.

    Oh UK, just hurry up and legalise assisted suicide already. stress