I'm raging today. I thought the medical industry couldn't let me down any more than they have but they have managed to outdo themselves. People who read my posts may know that I've been having bladder issues for some time now. It flares up and down but basically it's like having cystitis all the time. I can't sleep at night, have to get up to wee constantly, and always feel like I need to go. I'm finally on the waiting list to see the urologist and have been prescribed several bladder calming meds, none of which have helped.
Well, I was at the GP today about my test results and I got chatting to a retired nurse who happened to be there and she told me that over-treatment with thyroxine (which I've been having for years to try and stop my cancer coming back) can have the side effect of an overactive bladder. The same issue I have been seeing doctors for for years, begging for help, is perhaps being caused by my damn cancer treatment and not a single doctor has ever even thought of this, maybe the ignorant twats don't even know this is a side effect. God, I hate this life! These fuckers told me this treatment has no side effects and already it has given me a stroke, heart issues, multiple food intolerances, perhaps an overactive bladder and a whole lot more.
Oh Russia, please nuke the UK to oblivion, I am sick of this shit!
EDIT: Now they've got the hospital lab to redo the test and say there IS an infection after all. But the doctor refused to listen to me about my allergies and prescribed me an antibiotic I'm allergic to. I'm so exhausted by how difficult it is to get medical treatment.
It is the profit driven medical system that should be the true target of our ire. Huge student debt to even become a doctor, medical associations limiting the number of students/graduates per year to ensure those who do graduate gain a huge return on investment, urban areas yielding better returns limiting access to the quantity and quality of medical care for rural patients, governments constantly reducing the budget for healthcare to service debt that they created; the hamster wheel keeps on turning and crushing all of us.
Profit is all they care about, patients are just a means to an end.
In the US at least, there's also a disparity between doctors in the inner city (that'll take your insurance) who treat a high volume of the urban poor, and doctors in the suburbs whose patients are whiter and wealthier.
One's way less likely to listen anything you say, and more likely to be infantilising.
The medicare cuts are shutting down small, rural hospitals and clinics left and right; I'm talking rural and small town US, not suburban. There are now 27 million people with no insurance in the US, therefore, almost zero access to healthcare. The elderly will die younger (probably part of their Social Security reforms), but children will lack care in the early stages of development, guaranteeing a lifetime of medical and mental problems.