Well, the appointment didn't go quite as expected, but it went well.
My infected toe decided to be particularly gross this morning, so I decided that, as expected, I had to make that the priority issue of the appointment at the cost of the anxiety issues.
I then got thrown a curveball at the appointment as we have a completely new GP with the practise, as Dr Tandon (who was very much in the 'Your leg fell off? Well buck up!' school of doctoring) has finally retired. I'd hoped my Friday appointment meant I was getting young, dynamic, genuinely helpful Dr Singh, as she usually does Fridays, and I did, just not the Dr Singh I was expecting - we now have two of them.
I mentioned the plan had been to talk anxiety, but now thought we should concentrate on my toe, and that I was supposed to be doing a prescription review as well, so we started off with my toe.
She took one look, winced and said 'I think we'll start with the strong antibiotics'. If that doesn't help apparently things will get messy....
We moved on to the prescription review, and decided I'll try and come back down to the lower strength painkillers. The higher strength ones were supposed to be a temporary measure until I had the gallbladder surgery, but I forgot! Lot of helpful advide on ways to alleviate the drop in dosage and a second prescription of the appointment.
Rather than push me out the door (she was running at least 20 minutes late) she then did a bit of a getting to know you session, asked me what I did to keep myself busy, and as soon as I mentioned writing, and that I finding anxiety was making submissions almost impossible, she remembered the anxiety and insisted on dealing with it there and then. She didn't even ask for any more details, just wrote down, from memory, telephone numbers for three local psychotherapists, and two websites that might be helpful and said to give one of the psychotherapists a try to see how it goes as she prefers to start there rather than with drugs.
So overall, really impressed, though now I have to work up the nerve to ring one of the numbers she gave me....
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Date: 2016-01-22 09:06 pm (UTC)My infected toe decided to be particularly gross this morning, so I decided that, as expected, I had to make that the priority issue of the appointment at the cost of the anxiety issues.
I then got thrown a curveball at the appointment as we have a completely new GP with the practise, as Dr Tandon (who was very much in the 'Your leg fell off? Well buck up!' school of doctoring) has finally retired. I'd hoped my Friday appointment meant I was getting young, dynamic, genuinely helpful Dr Singh, as she usually does Fridays, and I did, just not the Dr Singh I was expecting - we now have two of them.
I mentioned the plan had been to talk anxiety, but now thought we should concentrate on my toe, and that I was supposed to be doing a prescription review as well, so we started off with my toe.
She took one look, winced and said 'I think we'll start with the strong antibiotics'. If that doesn't help apparently things will get messy....
We moved on to the prescription review, and decided I'll try and come back down to the lower strength painkillers. The higher strength ones were supposed to be a temporary measure until I had the gallbladder surgery, but I forgot! Lot of helpful advide on ways to alleviate the drop in dosage and a second prescription of the appointment.
Rather than push me out the door (she was running at least 20 minutes late) she then did a bit of a getting to know you session, asked me what I did to keep myself busy, and as soon as I mentioned writing, and that I finding anxiety was making submissions almost impossible, she remembered the anxiety and insisted on dealing with it there and then. She didn't even ask for any more details, just wrote down, from memory, telephone numbers for three local psychotherapists, and two websites that might be helpful and said to give one of the psychotherapists a try to see how it goes as she prefers to start there rather than with drugs.
So overall, really impressed, though now I have to work up the nerve to ring one of the numbers she gave me....