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I just wan't to know why my stomach feels like its on fire, maybe blood work can make the decision, maybe it can't, no doctor has done anything beyond doing blood work regarding the complaints I make about the pain.

Maybe it's related to the hiatal hernia (spelling?) maybe it's not, but I'd love to find out what if anything is causing it, its quite annoying to have it happening.

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That road would just lead to torment. It would never be conclusive and there'd be too many what ifs.

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Did an endoscopy show a Hiatus Hernia? That was my department, but when we diagnosed a HH we always gave healthcare advice. A lot of symptoms can and should be managed by lifestyle changes..

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I don't know the name of the test, I drank some awful tasting chalky liquid and then the doctor (not my GP, specialist of some sort) took x-rays, then more awful chalky liquid, and more pictures.

It's called a barium swallow.

I was told to take zantac, and to reduce acidic foods, and fatty foods along with soda and coffee. I did all that (I have an occasional cheat with a soda.) and for the most part the acid refluxing has stopped, unless I forget to take the zantac its pretty much non-existent now.

But this stupid burning pain, which I guess isn't technically the stomach has been persistent for months, right side,lower portion, before the hip.

I don't know anatomy to give specific names of the body part.

Add in the bone pain, and I can be one grumpy grumpster from the discomfort I have from it all.

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appendix?

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What about this type of situation, if the healthcare system ships you far from home, should they bring you back home?

Patient airlifted to hospital out of province discharged with no money, ID - Canada - CBC News

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Can the appendix cause issues for months and not become serious?

I haven't a clue.

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According to Dr Phil Hammond ,70% of illnesses can be prevented by your lifestyle and in fact “for 90% of symptoms, you’re better off with a dog than a doctor.”

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So Snoodawg and my patients will have all bases covered then!;)

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hmmmmmmm ..............

you have never met me, you don't know me, you don't know my medical problem(s), you don't know my doctors

you only know the part story that I posted on here

yet I read your posts as saying that you know better than my doctors, and that their treatment of me is wrong.

that comes over as ever so slightly arrogant



FYI ..............

I had my first knee x-ray in 1973, ordered by a specialist

I had my second, and last, knee x-ray 5 years ago

I had my first back and hip x-rays in 1997, the final stage in the process to find out what exactly was wrong


I had my second, and last, back and hip x-rays 4 years ago because I was no longer responding to treatment and finding it difficult to walk.

At the same time, I was referred to OASIS, which I am sure you know about. They actually required a "recent" x-ray, and assessed my condition based on a physical exam assisted by the x-rays. The OASIS team recommended further treatment to the doctors and gave me means of handling the problem in everyday life.

As physiotherapy is a major part of my treatment other than painkillers, copies of the report from the hip and back x-rays were sent to my physio so he could modify his treatment as needed.


I don't believe that there is anything for you to complain about in that history



nor do I think there is anything unprofessional in the way my treatment has been handled ............... so no reason for you to suggest that my doctors were and are wrong.

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I find that very insulting, and unnecessary

I have never demanded an annual check-up .......... but an annual check-up was strongly recommended by the doctors AND the Health Authorities in BC from when we arrived until into the 90s.

It is only in the last 10 years that the annual exam has truly disappeared ........... so, yes, I grew used to having one, and find it difficult to accept that it is no longer considered necessary.

I missed having an annual exam for almost 5 years in the 1990s, mainly my fault. However, in that time I developed a breast cancer that would have been found probably 2-3 years earlier but for that fact. Why?? because my GP at that time would have sent me for a mammogram at least twice during those 5 years, which is the only way the cancer was found, it was far too deep to be felt by manual examination.

How do I know roughly when the cancer developed?

Because I'd had a mammogram in late 1990, when they were first made available and recommended. The surgeon was able to access those records in 1995, and determine that nothing was showing then, so she worked out the time frame. It made a difference to my treatment ........... for the better as far as I am concerned, as I opted for a mastectomy and was lucky enough not to need chemo or radiation.


The lack of an annual exam no longer affects me of course, as I usually go to the doctor every 3 months for certain tests ..... on HIS orders


I don't know how many patients die in the UK because of not having an annual check-up? Do you? Does anyone?

It is one of those questions that can never be answered as there is no check ..............

I do know patients die needlessly because of inadequacies in the NHS .... just as they die needlessly because of inadequacies in the Canadian Medical system

and that is from personal knowledge of relatives and friends .......... not taken from news reports.


Shall we agree to disagree?

You will stop insulting me, and I will attempt to keep away from you

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It does happen very commonly .............

examples

You are on holiday in a small town which has a hospital and Emergency Department. You break your leg on the ski hill, are taken to the local hospital and they examine you. They discover you have a fractured bone in the lower part of your leg, but they do not have the facilities to treat that.

So you are Medi-Vac'd to the big hospital in the town almost 400 km away. You are operated on, screws inserted in your leg, put back on the ward ........ and then released the next morning. You have to make your own way home.

Luckily, you were home on holiday, and your mother is able to drive the 4 hours there and back to pick up from the hospital.

That happened to my nephew several years ago.

The hospital and Emergency Department in Smithers is excellent, as we discovered last year. Their care really could not be beaten anywhere in this province. BUT they can only do certain things. Nephew was shipped to Prince George for the operation.

His mother developed colon cancer, she had to travel to Prince Rupert (about 350 km), and to Prince George for operations and scans. Same thing ............ in an emergency they could move her there, but not back! She even had to travel to Vancouver for an assessment.

Fortunately for her, the local hospital can do chemo under direction from the Cancer Control Agency.



Of course, there should be some means of at least helping you get back home!

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I always forget about this place, they can't do everything, but if you have the $$$ its always an option for some stuff.

False Creek Healthcare - Vancouver MRI, CT Scan, Ultrasound

Services by Department | False Creek Healthcare Centre

They have urgent care and GP's as well, but they cost money and not a small amount.

http://falsecreekurgentcarecentre.com/faq/

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I just came back from the doctor....I plan a visit with snacks and books to get me through the wait (walk in clinic, you understand....I don't personally know anyone who has a doctor in Fredericton...a few tell stories of olden days when they knew a friend of a friend who had a family doctor...I personally believe them to be apocryphal) I drove to the clinic in New Maryland at 4 pm as it opens at 5pm...at 5 pm a woman arrived stuck a sign on the door "Clinic Closed till 11th May" - heigh ho! We all shuffled off again. Thankfully it's not urgent:unsure:

Yes....Canada needs to change its healthcare method?

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I remember living in a town with the 5pm to 8pm walk in clinic, that truly does suck.

Our walk in clinic is okay, you check in, they tell you roughly when you might be called, and your free to leave and they hold your spot. The reception lady doesn't want dozens of people waiting inside....

Depending on the doctor the wait will be anywhere from 1 hour to 4 hours typically, some docs are more popular then others.