Can I register with as many GP surgeries as I want to?
I've had a lot of problems with doctors not taking me seriously when I go about health issues I have been experiencing for years now. I have severe headaches at least 3-4 times a week, also get waves of intense stomach cramps to the point I can barely stand up until the pain goes away, and also have trouble sleeping to the point I'm sometimes away for 40+ hours despite feeling exhausted the entire time. I've been to my doctor several times about each issue and every time been told that "that's just how it is for some people" or just given generic advice I can find online, with the doctor being unwilling to prescribe anything or actually treat me. When I go home from uni I'm just going to register with a different GP surgery and try again. But if that doesn't work and the second doctor also doesn't take me seriously can I just keep registering with different doctors infinitely with the only limit being how far I'm willing to travel? Or will they know I have changed doctors and count it against me as "evidence" that I'm just making things up?
Reply 1
You can only be registered with one surgery at a time but you can change surgeries. You are going to be limited by catchment area and whether or not they are taking on new patients though, it's not just a case of how far you are willing to travel.
Reply 2
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Are you seeing the same GP every time?
Bear in mind that you can ask for a second opinion without needing to change GP practice.
Bear in mind that you can ask for a second opinion without needing to change GP practice.
Reply 3
To my knowledge when you register at a new practice they request your records from the old one and that prompts them to remove you.
Reply 4
Original post by martin7
Are you seeing the same GP every time?
Bear in mind that you can ask for a second opinion without needing to change GP practice.
Bear in mind that you can ask for a second opinion without needing to change GP practice.
I’ve seen two doctors at the same practice, both have similarly dismissed my health concerns
Reply 5
Original post by Admit-One
To my knowledge when you register at a new practice they request your records from the old one and that prompts them to remove you.
I don’t care if they request my records, there’s nothing in them seeing as they continually refuse to treat me. I just don’t want them to take the fact that I keep changing doctors as “evidence” that I’m making stuff up
Reply 6
Original post by Anonymous
I don’t care if they request my records, there’s nothing in them seeing as they continually refuse to treat me. I just don’t want them to take the fact that I keep changing doctors as “evidence” that I’m making stuff up
People change doctors all the time for lots of different reasons. No idea why that would be their conclusion.
Reply 7
Original post by Admit-One
People change doctors all the time for lots of different reasons. No idea why that would be their conclusion.
I'm guessing I'll have to change doctors at least a couple more times before finding one that doesn't just dismiss me and I don't won't them to think its suspicious if I end up having been registered with 5+ different practices
Reply 8
Original post by Anonymous
I'm guessing I'll have to change doctors at least a couple more times before finding one that doesn't just dismiss me and I don't won't them to think its suspicious if I end up having been registered with 5+ different practices
If you needed to go through half a dozen professional doctors with them all seemingly dismissing you I think you would honesty need to examine the way you were approaching them as the potential issue.
Reply 9
Original post by StriderHort
If you needed to go through half a dozen professional doctors with them all seemingly dismissing you I think you would honesty need to examine the way you were approaching them as the potential issue.
I'm just explaining my symptoms to them as they actually are, I tell them I have such bad pain to the point it sometimes makes daily life difficult and that I have insomnia to the point of being constantly exhausted/occasionally "seeing things" out the corner of my eye and am always just told that some people get more headaches/stomach pains/take longer to get to sleep than others or am given generic health advice which I have already tried before coming to a doctor so I'm at a loss for what I could do other than change doctors until I get one that listens to me.
Reply 10
Original post by Anonymous
I'm just explaining my symptoms to them as they actually are, I tell them I have such bad pain to the point it sometimes makes daily life difficult and that I have insomnia to the point of being constantly exhausted/occasionally "seeing things" out the corner of my eye and am always just told that some people get more headaches/stomach pains/take longer to get to sleep than others or am given generic health advice which I have already tried before coming to a doctor so I'm at a loss for what I could do other than change doctors until I get one that listens to me.
You are coming at it wrong, if dozens are dismissing you that tends to be a reflection of either how you are behaving towards them or they genuinely don’t see a problem.
What your describing could very well be stress related too- the answer isn’t to go through every doctor until you find one that tells you what you want to hear, because very often in medicine the answer isn’t something you want to accept.
Reply 11
Original post by Anonymous
You are coming at it wrong, if dozens are dismissing you that tends to be a reflection of either how you are behaving towards them or they genuinely don’t see a problem.
What your describing could very well be stress related too- the answer isn’t to go through every doctor until you find one that tells you what you want to hear, because very often in medicine the answer isn’t something you want to accept.
What your describing could very well be stress related too- the answer isn’t to go through every doctor until you find one that tells you what you want to hear, because very often in medicine the answer isn’t something you want to accept.
I know for a fact that the answer isn't "just deal with it and be in pain constantly" which is what doctors tell me
Reply 12
Original post by Anonymous
I know for a fact that the answer isn't "just deal with it and be in pain constantly" which is what doctors tell me
As someone with chronic pain due to waiting for a diagnosis, I very much doubt any doctor has told you that.
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