i hate the nhs (a little bit more)
30 August, 2007 by blue soup
Men, avert your eyes now.
So, just when I thought I could relax… this evening (after returning home from another staff meal where, oh not again, the bloody CEO requested that I sit next to him - ARGH leave me alone!!!!!), I returned home to a letter from my GP. Of course, this was sent out yesterday - obviously before I had had the chance to go there this morning and see the morning stand in doctor.
The NHS is utterly ridiculous at times. It puts the frighteners on people. The lady doctor I spoke to this morning, while being very firm that this was an important issue that must not be ignored and a referral to hospital is crucial, took care to calm my fears.
The letter I just opened informed me that I have “severe dyskaryosis” and that these changes will need treatment rather than go away on their own and then to read ANOTHER leaflet which, using words like abnormal and inadequate (seriously, which PR know-nothing writes this shit???) told me that I will have a huge magnifying glass shoved up my fanny (please excuse my language, I am not in the mood to be delicate about it), bits of me will probably be cut out, and then I will be frazzled to within an inch of my life, before drowning in a sea of bloody discharge for up to 4 weeks following the procedure.
I also have CIN apparently, which will lead to cancer and DEATH.
GREAT!!!!
I told you MULTIPLE ORGASMS DO NOT MAKE UP FOR THE INFLICTION THAT IS THE FEMALE CONDITION!!! NEITHER DOES HAVING BREASTS. Believe me now?!?!!?
Multiple orgasms…….Do they really exist………or is it because Men dont get them?
on a positive note, next staff meal, and the CEO insists on sitting next to you, tell him all about this, and it’s fair to guess he won’t insist again.
Can I uncover my eyes yet?
All that sounds very unpleasant but, on the positive side, you have a get out of work free card for months to come.
Most men don’t get them. Some of us are put together wrong and do
I’d have to think about whether breasts are better or not. Sounds crappy though, hope it gets sorted soon 
Just googled dyskaryosis and came up with this link
http://www.netdoctor.co.uk/ate/womenshealth/205213.html
“First of all dyskaryosis is not cancer, nor is it harmful in its own right. It refers to some mild changes in the appearance of the cells, which normally cover the surface of the cervix (the neck of the womb).
These changes are often noticed on the smears and it is well known that these cellular changes usually revert back to normal within a few weeks or months. “ .. it does go on .. but it might calm some of your fears!
PS: I had a magnifying glass shoved up my bum .. now that wasn’t pleasant either!
The thing I was most taking issue with (because although it’s not fun stuff up there, I know that the maths is on my side), is the scaremongering that the NHS letters and leaftlets are guilty of.
There is no need for the use of the word “severe” when qualifying whether this is a severe or mild case is unnecessary - that is something that can wait until the actual colposcopy examination, surely?!
And the leaflet, while I am sure they believe that they are giving access to all the information, it is all doom and gloom and leaves women like me - who are in all honesty PROBABLY going to be ok - lying awake at night worrying. In order to find out that it isn’t the dire picture that the NHS has painted, me and millions of other affected women like me have to go onto the internet (which is also full of hideously incorrect information as well). I just think it is another instance of the NHS failing the tax payer (And the non-tax payer).
Soupy, it’s because you/we are bad bad people for wanting to take up NHS time!
However on the flip side, some of the leaflets do not explain how effing nasty the procedures they will carry out will be!
Of course, in your case, it will all be very very ok!
*ducks*
i always look the other way when i see all those leaflets layed out, they’re horrible things that the nhs have to make you keep going back to them even though they’re crap
on a teeny tiny positive about the colposcapy thingy - my friend had to have it done and she is in all honesty and would admit herself, the BIGGEST wimp on the planet. she said it was scary but wasn’t too much worse than the smear… i’m sure the people when you get there will be lovely and reassuring xx
I can emphasise in a manly way, in that I felt similarly when I had a testicular cancer scare a couple of years ago. The ‘helpful’ leaflets that I got sent whilst waiting for tests did precisely the opposite and by the time I actually had the tests I was a nervous wreck.
I would listen to your doctor before listening to leaflets.
You have talking leaflets over there Venting?
YES - CANADA IS A WONDERFUL COUNTRY THAT HAS TALKING LEAFLETS (that are fully recyclable, of course).
No leaflets here in the good ole US! ‘Course we just have to pay zillions to see the doctor….
Poor muffin. There is good reason to be grateful for early intervention and screening