Re: PLEASE can anyone HELP ME !!Posted by Caz on February 18, 19101 at 19:27:33: In Reply to: Re: PLEASE can anyone HELP ME !! posted by Karen Downskarenedowns@excite.com on February 17, 19101 at 19:14:11: : Dear Caz: : I hesitate to say much more. You seem to have a serious systemic disorder. Are you by any chance diabetic or have you been diagnoised with anemia? : Do you tire easily? I am certain that a liver panel has been done as well as a kidney function test. What is the dose of Warfarin? How often are blood tests done? : Can you obtain a copy, for your own records, of your medical file? If so, you may find the liver panel and kidney function tests. : What other medical complaints do you have? Do you have arthritic pains in the joints of your hands or arms? How is your vision? : This last bit you need not answer, have you had any periods of heavy drinking of alcoholic beverages, ie: more than 3 drinks per day. Has there been any use of illicit drugs? : You are, of course, free to decline to answer any of these questions. It is just that I do not have a clear picture of your condition and the course of treatments and their reason for being implimented. : Big question: why are the blood clots forming? Why the need for Warfarin? There is a big piece of the puzzle missing. : What do you mean when you say that your GP doesn't "want to know"? What has he said or done to cause you to say that? : From this side of the Atlantic, I am practically in the Pacific, your case sounds like medical malpractice and you need to be talking to a lawyer. If medical malpractice is not the problem, then there is a crucial bit you have not revealed and which you may not know. : I will await your reply. : Karen Dear Karen thank you for your reply once again...here are the answers to you questions... 1. I am not Diabetic...I was told that I was abit anemic along time ago, but not sure if i still am. 2. Yes I do tire very easily, I do find that I can sleep through the night and once I get up in the morning and after about 10 - 15mins I am exhausted and feel as though I haven't slept for years. I don't know if I have ever had a Liver panel or a Kidney function test done but I will ask my GP when I see her on the 20th of this month. At the moment I am on 6mg and 7mg doses on alternate days, it changes from week to week as they cannot get my blood range stable. I am having my blood taken every week at the moment. 3. Yes I do have arthritic pains in the joints of my hands and arms...To do with my Vision, I do wear glasses I am very very long sited, I am waiting to have lazer treatment at our hospital, what they are going to do is lazer 2 drainage holes in each eye to stop me getting glucoma..this was picked up on my last visit to my Opticians. 4. The only beverages I drink is Tea and I do drink alot of that but it is Decaffinated.....I have never taken any illicit drugs in my whole life I do not approve of them in any way. I do not know why I keep getting blood clots, the blood specialist at our hospital did do some investigations some years back, but without asking him what test he did and what they were for I am unable to give you an answer to that but I do know that the test that he did came back ok, what ever that meant. The reason for the Warfarin is so it helps my blood to keep thin as when my blood goes very thick it is a danger to me of forming other clots. The part where you ask me about the GP and doesn't 'want to know' is that what she says to me ie when I tell her about my left leg and how much pain I'm in and that I am really struggling to stand or walk on it I do say to her please there must be something or someone who can take a closer look at it, but, she just says there's nothing we can do and she doesn't want to send me to see a surgon either, even when i have been in hospital having treatment on my stump and I have pleaded with the specialist to take alook at my other leg as the pain is so great just like my right leg was in the beginning, but they just say they don't want to know and they haven't heard a word I have said. There's not only me who has senced this 'don't want to know' attitude my husband and my mother has seen it for them selves to. I am very depressed and have been for a few years and have had to be put on antidepressants which I never ever wanted to have, but it had got that bad and I also got where I just didn't want to live anymore and because of the terrible things that was going on in my head as in 'suicide' I knew I had to get help. I hope this information helps you Karen, if you need anymore then please ask me and i will try to give you the answers. Once again I appreciate your responses I know feel that I'm not totaly alone. Many thanks.....Caz xx
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