Doctors & Personal Problems

[nailit]

Just wondered how people get on with reporting personal problems to their GP's?
Ive had a number of personal problems including...

A testicular cyst which had to be removed when I was 20.
A number of anal examinations (bleeding) current!
A penile infection (which I wrongly blamed on my 'then' girlfriend)

Just wondered if it might be worthwhile just turning up at my GP with my trousers already around my ankles?

More seriously, Ive known people too embarresed to see their GP with a 'personal' problem
and lost their lives because of it.
I just dont get it?
Doctors see it all, day in and day out.
Never pleasent having your bits messed with
(unless its consensual)
But I just dont get why people are embarresed about their bodies....

[gness]

Never pleasant having your bits messed with, Nailit? Try having a baby.... ;-)

[bednobs]

i once was SO emarrassed to ask my doctor a question, i wrote it down and passed it to her!
and im a nurse who has also seen eerything ;0

[douglas9401]

You ain't seen my body mate. :-)

Anyhoo, I'm down for a chat and rummage with a doctor tomorrow afternoon, can't wait.

[nailit]

''Try having a baby?''

I have to take my hat off.
I could NOT imagine what you ladies endure

[gness]

Nailit. It wasn't my flippin' hat I had to keep taking off. :-(

[nailit]

gness, sure it wasnt...

[Milo2]

I have a friend who is too embarrassed to have a smear test despite knowing that another friend’s abnormal cells were found and treated following her test.

[nailit]

Women have to undergo so much more than men, I realise that.
And appriciate that.
Smears and mammograms etc

[Buenchico]

I've never been embarrassed to mention my bodily parts, or bodily functions, to medical people.

For example, when I turned up at a clinic for a urine flow test last year, everyone else was discretely speaking to the receptionist. I was the one who walked through the door and boomed out at the top of my voice, "Eh up, lass! Is this where I come to p¦ss in a pot then?"

[gness]

Ohhhh the mammogram! When you've not got much and the nurse is hauling and mauling any bit of spare flesh from the waist up into the machine so it can be squashed flat.... :-(

[New Judge]

//Just wondered how people get on with reporting personal problems to their GP's?//

What's a GP?

[Tilly2]

It's a relief when it's over though Gness. Like the calm after the storm.

[choux]

Tilly, no it is not. It is like falling off your bike because the front wheel had a puncture and the machine suddenly stopped. After the initial pain you have to go looking for a bicycle pump...

[nailit]

//Just wondered how people get on with reporting personal problems to their GP's?//

What's a GP?


Its a generic term for someone who is lucky eneough to get to see a medic nowadays. Its becoming a rarity and will be so for the forthcoming....
It will soon be a thing of the past.
We will all soon be self diagnosing via zoom or some suchlike.

[choux]

Last week I phoned to make an appointment to see a specific doctor whom I saw for the first time in October for a recurring problem which has not been resolved.

2 days later I got a call back from the surgery triage team and was offered an appointment with a female doctor. I explained again that I wanted to see the same doctor as before and was told they thought I would rather see a female doctor. Sometimes, even my patience is exhausted.

[nailit]

I have had a history of anal bleeding (with either polyps or piles)
A testicular cyst,
Penile infection (not VD)

Next time that I visit my GP I will go with my trousers around my ankles in preperation.

Even if its just a cough!
;-)

[Atheist]

Maybe we'll soon have to learn to cope with 'first world problems'. Poor old Ukraine is now up against it. There's always someone worse off than yourself.

[douglas9401]

Desperate as their plight is, Atheist, it has to take second place to a worrying medical condition at least in the short term.

Someone being worse off than you doesn't treat your ailment.

[nailit]

//There's always someone worse off than yourself.//
Absolutely.

[Atheist]

Agreed, Douglas. Just my stoic side showing (or perhaps my insensitive side.) :-(