I got my MRI results - just how should a patient wait for treatment on the NHS

that is just so sad and scary. i dont think we should wait that long for a second opinion. i mean, you have to get that second opinion immediately because its your health that is on the line! when you know there's something wrong with you, then you shouldn't wait any longer and cure it immediately. we dont wait for a problem to spread and get bad. you have to have a second opinion pronto so you can decide what you will gonna do about your condition. goodluck and i pray that everything will turn out okay.

Oh Sweetheart I am sorry to hear about this! I haven't really been online lately as I haven't been too well and then had a bit of a , for want of a better phrase, nervous breakdown and it is difficult just to speak or type but I can understand exactly how nervous, anxious and frustrated you must feel right now! I don't want to depress you more but it took well ovewr a year for me to get as far as an mri, consultants appointment and surgery for a badly ruptured/prolapsed disk in my spine! The disk problem left me with nerve damage that worsened every day I had to wait as the compression on my nerves was so bad! The surgery seemed to help until 2 months later when something went wrong in my back - I was told on the 7th of July that I had to have another mri and I am still waiting - it is now november and I don;t even have an appointment! Since then my mobility and my depression have got worse and worse and life seems bleak a lot - so the answer is that yes despite your Gps doing their best people do slip through the net of the nhs and who suffer indefinitely until they are eventually given the right tests and treatments - heck their is even a 6 month waiting list for the pain clinic! On the brighter side I have a friend who had what sounds like the same type of surgery they are proposing for you and it transformed her life for the better! Sending you lots of love and prayers my sweetheart! xxxx

Yes Sweet they are believe me Also my new Doctor here seems to think she has to save them money by putting my Life at risk and not doing the tests that I am suppose to have every year and not getting me to a consultant she would rather feed me Antibiotics for 7 weeks and make me sicker (yes I am going to change Doctors) To me when it is something as urgent as this you should be going to the top as she said it will get worse well how much more worse does it have to get Sweet I am so sorry this is happening to you and I really hope you do not have to wait to long Of course if we went private it would happen very fast, People like you and me who do not have the Money to go private have to suffer this Big Hugs to you

aawww so sorry to hear about the results recycledgoth. it sounds to me that you need treatment as quickly as possible so this doesnt get worser which hopefully it wont. as for the NHS, its disgusting the waiting lists. they need to sort it out and mainly give priority to the people who neeed the treatment most like yourself and gabs. i hope you can get treatment very soon, take care

I am so sorry to hear that you have been going through this sweetie. I noticed this post is 2 weeks old, my apologies as I am not getting notifications. Hopefully things are a little better for you. I really wish I could do something to help. If you need me for anything I am just a pm away! £µv & Hµgzz¸ ¥øµr Frìëñd¸ Pµrþ|ëTëddýßëâr.

Good morning, dear recycledgoth. Please keep yourself in a good mood whatever result it is. I am sure that the doctors will have a good way to help cure this for you. By the way, after reading your former discussion, I talked to my best friend about his same case like you have. He also went to the doctors and got some medicine for the treatment. My friend has to keep his neck and left arm warm by wearing more clothes than we do so that he doesn't feel worse. We were talking about how this happened to him. He could not get an answer, but thought that he might have got it when he was youngster, yet he only had this break out a couple of years ago. I do hope that our advanced medical science can help erase the physical uncomfortableness from people suffering from this case. So dear friend, please keep warm and take care.

Wow!Im so sorry to hear this. I know what your going through I too am going to have surgery on my third herniated disc and that in the neck area too. Ive already had 2 surgerys prior. I have disc degernation disease. This procedure for me will be risky too but I have alot of faith in my doctor. Hang in there. I live in the united states so I dont know much about your health care. I know you get it free but whats this with the waiting? For now just take the pain meds thats what Im doing. I hope you can get some relief sweetie.

I'm glad you finally found out what the problem is. Sorry to hear you have such a difficult choice to make though. :-( I think the NHS waiting lists can be very long for any procedures that aren't specifically to fix something life-threatening. You may have a wait on your hands but at least this will give you time to get used to the fact that you're planning to have a major operation. I hope you don't have to wait too long and that everything goes well when it does eventually happen.

Since the damage is close to your spine, and further damage could cause paralysis since its near the cord, I would check with another clinic or hospital for other alternatives, both to surgery and waiting for another opinion. Nerve damage is not a matter to play with, especially if it is the spinal cord nerves. The surgery may be dangerous, but something has to be done to at least keep the quality of life that you are maintaining now, if not improve it. Again, the surgery may be dangerous, but waiting unnecessarily definately is.