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Early March 2020 I had an operation to remove my gall bladder due to gall stones. I was sent home the same day.
The following day a large lump had appeared just above the cut around my belly button. I went to my surgery and my doctor sent me straight to A&E to see someone in the surgical teams (I think) to get it looked at, she thought it might be a bleed or infection and puss causing the lump. The people there, not specifically a doctor, but more a part of a surgical team looked at it and said it was nothing, they gave me a prescription for antibiotics and sent me home.
A short while later I went to see my doctor again as the area was painful and the lump was still there, it was a decent size, maybe as round as a satsuma, but did not stick out as far as one of those, but looking at it sideways it was a decent very noticeable protrusion. My doctor advised me to go to A&E and get it looked at so I did this. Again I think a surgeon type of guy had a quick look at it and said it was nothing even though it was clear to see the lump.
After this time I just got on with life as I had been told twice by professionals that it is nothing.
Over the last maybe 3 years I have mentioned it when at my doctors surgery and been told there is nothing of an issue there. Last year when I was at the surgery I asked the doctor I was in with the check on it because I would get pain on and off. He told me to lay on the bed and he examined it. Pushed it around, felt the area around it, got me to cough whilst pushing it etc and he said it is not a hernia, and is possibly just scar tissue from the gall bladder operation.
Over the weekend I had the most excruciating pain I have ever had, managed to get to A&E, and after a while bloods were taken to be tested. Hours later a doctor there advised I probably had a strangulated hernia, as bloods were showing infection and the site of the pain would indicate this, he said he would require a cat scan to confirm and we'd go from there. I was immediately put on a couple of drips of antibiotics and paracetamol and had to wait for a surgeon to come and see me. This happened, the surgeon said it is a strangulated hernia and it is a Cat 1 medical emergency so I was taken straight away for the operation. It went well, bowel was alive and hernia was repaired. I was in hospital from 6pm Friday till 3pm Sunday and am now at home with pain killing medication and 2 different antibiotics which I am taking for the infection. I am still in a lot of pain and cannot really do anything.
Having spoken to professionals and having the area examined a few times I am really angry that this was never really looked into and it was allowed to get to the stage it did, which is pretty life threatening in some circumstances, so I wondered if I should make a complaint, and if so who is it directed towards? The hospital had seen the issue and so did my doctors surgery and it was never taken as a serious matter and the latter visit was misdiagnosed as scar tissue.
Thanks.
Early March 2020 I had an operation to remove my gall bladder due to gall stones. I was sent home the same day.
The following day a large lump had appeared just above the cut around my belly button. I went to my surgery and my doctor sent me straight to A&E to see someone in the surgical teams (I think) to get it looked at, she thought it might be a bleed or infection and puss causing the lump. The people there, not specifically a doctor, but more a part of a surgical team looked at it and said it was nothing, they gave me a prescription for antibiotics and sent me home.
A short while later I went to see my doctor again as the area was painful and the lump was still there, it was a decent size, maybe as round as a satsuma, but did not stick out as far as one of those, but looking at it sideways it was a decent very noticeable protrusion. My doctor advised me to go to A&E and get it looked at so I did this. Again I think a surgeon type of guy had a quick look at it and said it was nothing even though it was clear to see the lump.
After this time I just got on with life as I had been told twice by professionals that it is nothing.
Over the last maybe 3 years I have mentioned it when at my doctors surgery and been told there is nothing of an issue there. Last year when I was at the surgery I asked the doctor I was in with the check on it because I would get pain on and off. He told me to lay on the bed and he examined it. Pushed it around, felt the area around it, got me to cough whilst pushing it etc and he said it is not a hernia, and is possibly just scar tissue from the gall bladder operation.
Over the weekend I had the most excruciating pain I have ever had, managed to get to A&E, and after a while bloods were taken to be tested. Hours later a doctor there advised I probably had a strangulated hernia, as bloods were showing infection and the site of the pain would indicate this, he said he would require a cat scan to confirm and we'd go from there. I was immediately put on a couple of drips of antibiotics and paracetamol and had to wait for a surgeon to come and see me. This happened, the surgeon said it is a strangulated hernia and it is a Cat 1 medical emergency so I was taken straight away for the operation. It went well, bowel was alive and hernia was repaired. I was in hospital from 6pm Friday till 3pm Sunday and am now at home with pain killing medication and 2 different antibiotics which I am taking for the infection. I am still in a lot of pain and cannot really do anything.
Having spoken to professionals and having the area examined a few times I am really angry that this was never really looked into and it was allowed to get to the stage it did, which is pretty life threatening in some circumstances, so I wondered if I should make a complaint, and if so who is it directed towards? The hospital had seen the issue and so did my doctors surgery and it was never taken as a serious matter and the latter visit was misdiagnosed as scar tissue.
Thanks.
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