Showing posts with label podiatrist. Show all posts
Showing posts with label podiatrist. Show all posts

Friday, 19 July 2013

MORE DOCTORS DOLITTLE

Well after speaking to the latest Doctor while recording it anyone who downloaded and listened to the recording might have noticed how I mentioned that my Metatarsalgia had become a real problem?

This was so much so that I was planning to get a referral about it and planning to use the upcoming odd appointment I made that no one is aware of, yes I kid you not, to ask about it. Well everything else has been more or less sorted, even IF they have wriggled out of a confirmed diagnosis on every occasion!

Now it just so happens that for a couple of days I had thought of changing my insoles. I always have insoles and am often trying new ones in an attempt to lessen the pains in my feet. There is one I have bought several times from Sport Direct that are OK for a few months. I had been using a new pair that I bought from Lidls and they were surprisingly OK. But I also had a gel pair and thought about changing them when the Metatarsalgia started to come to the fore?

Now when I did mention this in my very last appointment the GP I saw suggested that as the Gabapentin were working that this now forced my Metatarsalgia to become more prominent as it was the only thing I was feeling in my foot now. As I am not up to the full dose of the Gabapentin yet and that is what I was there for, I could have argued that I am still feeling things in my feet OTHER than the Metatarsalgia?

Now in all honesty I was surprised that she said it and Doctors and GPs everywhere just assume that everyone is a CRY-BABY and WHINGER based on that remark and I honestly feel that has been the attitude of every Doctor going back 20 years or more!!

Terrible and DISGUSTING!

Now back to the insoles! Yes so I had another pair of gel like insoles, bought from Sports Direct but not the usual full memory sole ones I have had three pairs of, and thought it may help to switch them over. Well a couple of days ago I did and some if you might well be wondering where this is going or thinking ooh boy not worthy of a mention, but WAIT LOL.

When I took of the old ones I was looking at them while wondering if there was anything abut them that could be causing the pain when I noticed something! Right there in the very area where I have been experiencing pain in the ball of my left foot was a small mark?! I looked at it closely and it seemed to resemble an indentation of some sort and measured about 3mm to 5mm across. I then assumed that there had been a stone lodged in there somewhere but this was on the topside which was in contact with my feet?! I inspected the other side of the insole and there was nothing there and no weakness in the insole, nor impressions of any kind. I pushed the depression with my fingers and something had definitely been applying a lot of pressure to the area as it was not only weak but the spot had been rubbed to the point where the colour had faded. On the other insole, in case anyone was wondering, there was nothing!

I am at a loss to explain it but will say that I had been massaging the area and thought that I had done something wrong to make it worse?! Also I have always felt that the spot when I am massaging it felt like it had a loose lump inside it. But as my feet had been X-Rayed because of Plantar fasciitis by both an Orthopaedic Surgeon and a Podiatrist at Barnet Hospital, whose boss I recorded for an hour immediately before the appointment, and said the X-Rays were OK I had assumed that this was my imagination.

However now that I realised they have lied t me about the Neurology, the Electromyograph and NCS tests, Nerve Conduction Studies as well as the Ultrasound...well it is OPEN SEASON NOW!

Considering the fact that I asked these so called someone later why they had x-rayed my feet as bone spurs are nothing to do with Plantar fasciitis and the reply was 'yes they are' and I came back with 'NO THEY ARE NOT' and this went back and forth a few times until they decided to ask why I said they were not, at last the penny drops. I said because there has never EVER been found any correlation or links between BONE SPURS and Plantar fasciitis. You can have the spurs and have no pain whatsoever and you can have the pain and yet have no spurs whatsoever, ergo the spurs do NOT cause the pain!

ANYWAY, so here are a few pictures, lol.







Wednesday, 19 June 2013

ANOTHER MRI TO ADD TO THE LIST

Well in a little over 24 hours I would have had my third MRI Scan.

At least this one they cannot lie about because it would result in my death before very long!

It is funny to my mind that after my knees started playing up, to add to my feet, hips, back and shoulder, I requested a full body MRI as it would be the easiest, fastest and therefore CHEAPEST way to get to conclusions, seal with it and allow me to get on with my life after whatever treatments or drugs were necessary.

Now let me think since I was initially refused that I have had

3 MRIs: Two on back one on Groin (after tomorrow) and not including that infamous knee one
4 X-Rays I can recall: Two on feet, one on knee, one on back.
1 Endoscopy
1 Ultrasound, cannot recall what for!
Electromyography
Nerve Conduction Studies
Private (Chimes) Chiropractor (who called the NHS shit and vice versa and discovered TWO problems and told me exactly WHAT pains I was getting and WHERE, the the Doc who performed the NCS and EM called him a quack)

Then there are the thousands of useless prescription drugs I have had forced on me over the years, even a repeated forced change from Osemeprazole (Nexium) to Lansoprazole when I kept asking them not to do this. Oddly I can give you the name of a women I know whose condition was nowhere near as bad as mine and she was taking Nexium long before I knew about them, to my utter surprise, and without any question whatsoever.

I do know why now and comes down to that question they ask when you register I never thought about, then wondered about and now know why they ask...Are you WORKING? So those out of work are a lower life form than those in work, lol?!

Leaving out the Carpal & Tarsal Tunnel Tests I have had and any others I have forgotten about!

Also the half a dozen or more Physios the 4 Orthopaedics, the 2 Rheumatologists, 3 Podiatrists, Dozen GPs appx, Specialist Back Physiotherapist, and one Neurologist I only saw once and did not test for everything before discharging me (to be bought up at next GP appointment on a few weeks) and any others I may have forgotten?!

Several GPs I have seen over a dozen times about the same problem and I have not been under my present one for a year yet but close and have probably seen him a dozen times already.

Right now let is get this in perspective...

1) It was my opinion and as I stated above the the quickest and cheapest route so beneficial to all would be to perform a full body MRI bit they did not and repeatedly for 12 years.

2) They told me it would cost £10,000 for a Full Body MRI at one point in the past and yet I was planning to pay for one privately and was £1,500, one thousand five hundred, so they LIED. (I was prepared to sell a treasured item of mine to pay for this but while it was still advertised I was physically attacked by bailiffs and had it stolen along with other items and then the money defrauded out of me, just for those that have not read that bit lol)

3) Now take the costs of all the MRIs, X-Rays, Tests, Toys and each 30 minute to an hour that each of the GPs, Doctors and Specialists above would be PAID and try to convince me that this would be south of £20,000?!?!

There is no way on this earth that it was more cost efficient to take their rout over mine!! As simple as that and especially as the MRI I wanted was £1,500 and I still have the emails, as I do all correspondence and recorded meetings, to the firms that offer the MRIs!

Now THAT is why the NHS is in trouble and they have spent a decade pr two paying money men who know nothing about money at all. They think it all depends on the next financial year and not one of the idiots stopped to think about backlogs mounting up?!

When I say backlogs my foot problems I always use as an example because this is when I started to put pressure on THEM! In reality it started long before and was not picked up on and still today I still do not know leaving the Pain Specialist I saw to hang his head! Ooh did I include him in the list?! What I am getting at is that I cannot be the only one and there must be others that are well aware that this has happened to them?!

In fact I would add that I would bet there are thounds if not tens of thousands that are victim to this behaviour who are completely unaware of it, believing the constant excuses they are given.

Me?! I have an analytical mind and can pull anything to pieces and if it is a lie or some lame excuse I can work it out pretty quick, before even leaving the room quite often, lol.

LMAO!

Of course there is ONE other factor to all this that no one anywhere and even the media has ever picked up on...

...the cost to the nation and to businesses for not only...

Time Off Work...

...but also to those...

Who have been UNABLE TO WORK!!

But now everything is our fault?!?! Or I should REALLY say THEIR FAULT?! LMAO!

TOSSERS!! THE LOT OF THEM!

Unable to spot the noses on their faces!! LMAO!