Should I go to A&E?

So why would going to A&E offer you any different advice? You're just going to piss off the staff by wasting their time.

Go back to your GP, explain how long it has been going on and follow their advice. If they think you need a scan, they will refer you on. There is absolutely no point demanding an investigation when numerous doctors think that it is not worth the time.

Should I go to the hospital. I have this problem with my foot/ankle and it's really effecting me.

i can't go out, I struggle to walk places. Been like this for 6 months. I've had this for about 5 years, sometimes it's okay, but I can always feel it.

I have been to the GP. I went in Febuary and she said it was just a sprain. I tried to explain to her that it wasn't, but she seemed to just ignore everything.

I went back again after 2 weeks, like I was told, saw another GP and he told me to do some stretches, which I said that I already do, he seemd to ignore that and said i'd be fine in no time.

I went back 2 weeks later and I was referred to a physio.

Waited a month for the physio and she told me to do stretches, exactly the same as I was doing before and the same as the GP had told me to do. She said come back in 3 months if it continues.

I tried to explain it's been going on for ages, but she seemed to just ignore this.


It's really frustrating, I can't go out anywhere. After about 10 minutes of walking around the house/standing up I have to sit down. For about 6 months i've done no exercise and have been restricted to this ******* chair/bed. This is a continous thing but has gotten worst in these last 6 months.


if I go to hospital will they take me more seriousley.

How about you go to an nhs walk in centre so it's not the same doctors or somethig?

On the "seen four doctors" thing. My mum visited the GP more than 10 times over a number of years before she was referred and diagnosed with hypothyroidism.

Shes just had to go through the whole thing again over the last two years before finally being referred and diagnosed with well progressed rhematoid arthritis.

Tell your GP you don't want any s*** and you're not leaving until you get a referral.

There is absolutely no point demanding an investigation when numerous doctors think that it is not worth the time.

OP maybe you're just going to have chronic pain forever. Gotta deal with it.

5 years since i've had this accident and it has never been right since. Also have limited movement in this foot.

That's the advice my grandmother followed. She died of late stage metastasised cancer two weeks after being diagnosed after she was admitted to hospital following a collapse. .

Pay for a private physiotherapist, they'll fix you up. Unless you're certain there's a fracture in there or something similar, I wouldn't bother with A&E, they won't be able to do much.

You still haven't told us what your physio said was causing the pain and if you're doing the exercises.

I was waiting for the "my aunties brothers cousins sisters lawyer didn't pester for pointless investigations and died" anecdote. Such cases are statistically negligible compared to the number of complete time wasters who ignore medical advice and demand pointless investigations.

Your doctor went to medical school and is probably a consultant. His medical advice is probably worth listening to, especially when it it consistent with many other consultations.

The physio said it was 'probably just plantar fasciitis, try doing these stretches' then she showed me the stretches, I said i've already been doing them, but she just said come back in 3 months if it's the same.

I am 100% positive it is not plantar fasciitis.

GPs are ****, everyone knows this. Yeah they'll get some of the cases right but they can't get them all. A few years ago I fractured my elbow, doctor just passed it off as a sprain but I demanded an x-ray and got physio for it, if not it would be even more messed up than it currently is.

Cases of GPs underestimating things are not a statistical anomaly, they almost always tend to go for the smallest possible thing it could be unless you really push them. Its the complete opposite to France where they'll diagnose you with about 300 diseases for treatment by walking in the door.

GPs are ****, everyone knows this. Yeah they'll get some of the cases right but they can't get them all. A few years ago I fractured my elbow, doctor just passed it off as a sprain but I demanded an x-ray and got physio for it, if not it would be even more messed up than it currently is.

Cases of GPs underestimating things are not a statistical anomaly, they almost always tend to go for the smallest possible thing it could be unless you really push them. Its the complete opposite to France where they'll diagnose you with about 300 diseases for treatment by walking in the door.