My current medical disaster 

tHE mAD dENTIST

December 15, 2008
I AM WEARING  a 12 hour blood pressure monitor to record my BP,This test gives an overview of all the blood pressure readings throughout 12 hours. It is particularly useful if your doctor thinks that your blood pressure is unusually high when you have it measured in the surgery or at hospital appointments.

So guess on which arm they insisted I wore it?

My left arm. The one in which I have NO RECORDABLE BLOOD PRESSURE.

       I tried to explain to the nurse but she said she had to put it on my left arm as “that was the normal arm” I mentioned the problems with my left arm and she said she would have to get permission from a doctor to change arms, which would be difficult as they were busy. I tried to force her to ring the doctor but gave up and accepted the treatment in protest.

The 1st time the cuff expanded my left hand went DARK BLUE, numb and tingling. BUT as Doctor Y said “I cannot have a blockage in my left arm as it would go blue and fall off” similar to the phlebotomist’s comment that I cannot have no pulses as my arm would fall off. So was my arm about to fall off  now as it had just gone blue?

      I went back to the surgery and surprisingly, as the doctors were initially SO busy, I got an appointment straight away with Dr Gama who l arranged for the cuff to be transferred to my right arm. He was the doctor that DISCOVERED I had no discernible blood pressure in my left arm and also the one that organised this 12 hour monitor.

SURELY HE SHOULD HAVE KNOWN NOT TO PUT IT ON MY LEFT ARM??? and therefore suggested to the nurse to put it on my RIGHT ARM.
Or is too much for a doctor to actually think. Apparently so. AND YET if I ask questions about my treatment I get sent to the Mental Health people.

My wish to die was reinforced by this incompetence/negligence.

I wore it for 12 hours and suffered the measurements every 30 minutes. Another GP, Dr Kirwadkar, had told me that "after 30 minutes I wouldn't even notice that I had the monitor on me".

Dr Gama apologised to me by telephone saying it was a "cock up"

I was told  at the next appointment that My BP was consistently up throughout the 12 hours and my Bisropol dose was increased.
 

   I said to Dr Gama " I see absolutely no point in living anymore having had my career destroyed and now this f*cking mess"  and left his surgery in tears. 

One thing this cuff has shown is that I STILL HAVE A BLOCKAGE in the return from my arm as the cuff forced the blood to pool in my arm. Further proof that the initial problem HAS NOT BEEN DEALT WITH. Yet I was discharged as the surgeon said there was nothing more he would/could do.

AND THEN Dr Gama  RANG ME an hour or so later

saying I had an emergency appointment with a psychiatrist Christmas Eve at 11.00 a.m.