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.
People really do treat being ill or disabled as a moral failure. When I was first diagnosed with cancer people were understanding and sympathetic for a short while, and then as i got sicker and sicker and eventually had to quit work and didn't go back, they just became judgmental and eventually drifted away and abandoned me. It really annoys me how whenever you meet someone the first question is always "So what do you do?" I would find myself trying to explain my health situation to justify why I wasn't doing anything work-wise. But I could always see the look in their eyes, I was now considered subhuman and no longer worth talking to. They'd look shocked and judgmental, then their eyes would glaze over and they'd drift away.
:( I hope you do not mind me giving hugs over the internet because those people sound awful. I am sure that this community of Lemmygraders will be perfectly fine with you regardless of any disease you have, because this place is just nice (save for the occasional random opportunist that wanders onto this place).