Issue at bedtime

aliasojo

phill99 wrote: »

Remember that next time you re being treated for a brain tumor, cancer or heart failure.

My mother's doctor missed her brain tumour and told her it was 'nerves' and my Aunt's doctor missed her throat cancer and guess what...that was nerves too. :rotfl:

Just sayin'......:D

Leif

phill99 wrote: »

Remember that next time you re being treated for a brain tumor, cancer or heart failure.

Funny you should say that. A colleagues father died prematurely after being misdiagnosed, he had blood cancer. Another colleague nearly died after his doctor repeatedly refused to examine him. After 6 months a physio noticed a growth at the base of his spine, he was sent to the hospital, diagnosed with a late stage cancer, and given chemotherapy. The consultant said he was weeks away from death, and because the treatment was so late, he lost sensation in his fingers. Had he not had private medical insurance, allowing him to see the consultant before he went on holiday, he would be dead. The consultant wrote an angry letter to the doctor, who shrugged it off. My own minor experience includes going to a doctor because my knees were so sore I could barely climb stairs. She said there was nothing wrong. It took a running shoe shop manager to diagnose a problem with my gait, and he suggested shoe inserts, which did the job. I was previously given false information on another problem by numerous doctors. My late mother waited 10 years for cataract operations (fantastic, apparently), and then less than a year later she died.

The NHS does fantastic things in some areas, such as patching up car accident victims, or heart surgery, but GPs are mostly useless.

TiTheRev

Sorry to jump in here, but having survived a brain tumour myself, I have nothing but praise for doctors. Imagine the job they face every day, putting up with all sorts of ailments, sickness and moaning hypocondriacs!?

I went to the doc feeling light-headed and getting sick. If everyone that went to a doc with those symptoms got diagnosed with a brain tumour 'just in case', imagine the panic and mis-trust it would instill? The doc gave me a nasal spray for potential sinusitis, but it didn't clear after 2/3 more days, and once I went back they sent me for tests. CT scan showed the tumour, and I was operated on and back to work within 3 weeks. I appreciate the way I was treated by the doc, because there wasn't a worst case assumption.

I work at a garage, and if we assumed the worst with every car that came in, we could spend hours and customers money on completely unnecessary parts and causing worry. Sometimes a problem can just be a blown fuse...know what I mean?!

aliasojo

TiTheRev wrote: »

Sorry to jump in here, but having survived a brain tumour myself, I have nothing but praise for doctors. Imagine the job they face every day, putting up with all sorts of ailments, sickness and moaning hypocondriacs!?

I went to the doc feeling light-headed and getting sick. If everyone that went to a doc with those symptoms got diagnosed with a brain tumour 'just in case', imagine the panic and mis-trust it would instill? The doc gave me a nasal spray for potential sinusitis, but it didn't clear after 2/3 more days, and once I went back they sent me for tests. CT scan showed the tumour, and I was operated on and back to work within 3 weeks. I appreciate the way I was treated by the doc, because there wasn't a worst case assumption.

I work at a garage, and if we assumed the worst with every car that came in, we could spend hours and customers money on completely unnecessary parts and causing worry. Sometimes a problem can just be a blown fuse...know what I mean?!

I see what you're saying, but with respect, your good experience doesn't mitigate other's bad ones.

My Mother was left banging her head off the wall in agony before her symptoms were finally taken seriously.

My Aunt's diagnosis (and therefore treatment) was delayed so much by poor medical care that her Consultant told her if she wanted to bring a negligence case, he would be more than happy to support her, he was so angry at the GP. Given at how much the medical profession tend to close rank and stick together, that was quite a telling offer.

Of course most Doctors are great but not all are.

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Poppy9

aliasojo wrote: »

My mother's doctor missed her brain tumour and told her it was 'nerves' and my Aunt's doctor missed her throat cancer and guess what...that was nerves too. :rotfl:

Just sayin'......:D

My sister's brain tumour was missed by 2 GPs. She saw them numerous times over a short period of time, even accompanied by her worried husband and they put it down to depression and one even shouted at her for not accepting she was depressed.

She had severe headaches, sickness on waking, palpitations, dizzy spells, loss of co-ordination, trouble walking and the shakes.

They refused a home visit when she was violently sick at home with what we now realise was actually a seizure. She was admitted to hospital the following day after we insisted a doctor came out. A brain scan that day revealed a tumour and despite surgery she died a month later.

TiTheRev wrote: »

Sorry to jump in here, but having survived a brain tumour myself, I have nothing but praise for doctors. Imagine the job they face every day, putting up with all sorts of ailments, sickness and moaning hypocondriacs!?

I went to the doc feeling light-headed and getting sick. If everyone that went to a doc with those symptoms got diagnosed with a brain tumour 'just in case', imagine the panic and mis-trust it would instill? The doc gave me a nasal spray for potential sinusitis, but it didn't clear after 2/3 more days, and once I went back they sent me for tests. CT scan showed the tumour, and I was operated on and back to work within 3 weeks. I appreciate the way I was treated by the doc, because there wasn't a worst case assumption.

I work at a garage, and if we assumed the worst with every car that came in, we could spend hours and customers money on completely unnecessary parts and causing worry. Sometimes a problem can just be a blown fuse...know what I mean?!

I'm so glad that your surgery treated your symptoms seriously

phill99 wrote: »

Remember that next time you re being treated for a brain tumor, cancer or heart failure.

My mother was repeatedly told by GP she was depressed when in fact she had terminal bowel cancer. Even when she was diagnosed by A&E he said the enlargement of her liver wasn't really an enlargement it was just because she was so thin.

A work colleague told by GP she IBS was found to have bowel cancer after collapsing in work. Her GP said he thought she was too young (she is later 40s).

Very little faith in GPs sorry!

the_devil_made_me_do_it

aliasojo wrote: »

My mother's doctor missed her brain tumour and told her it was 'nerves' and my Aunt's doctor missed her throat cancer and guess what...that was nerves too. :rotfl:

Just sayin'......:D

My father was mis-diagnosed with high blood pressure, turned out he had a terminal brain tumour. My dad never ever went to the doctors unless he really had to. He also never suffered with high blood pressure either. He suffered needlessly & if he had been diagnosed much earlier, he would still have died but would have been made more comfortable by the correct medication. He had all the symptoms of this particular brain tumour.


Basically doctors do miss things unfortunately.

Getting back to the OP, I also experience this problem & when I get up in the morning after having a night like you have described, I feel very shivery. I'm not worried about it, I just put it down to one of those things. After saying that I really suffer with nightmares.

julessays

*HalfBaked* wrote: »

Hello all, strange one for you but I am at a loss with what to do...

Problem:
I wake up most mornings very cold but also very sweaty.

Details:
No heating on over night, it only gets used about an hour per night anyway.
I'm not wearing pyjamas, just some pants.
No heating/cooling devices on and windows slightly cracked open for air.
I have a medium feather duvet with no quilt on top.
I've had this duvet for 2 years now and only been getting cold and sweaty the last 6 months or so.
Nothing has changed in that time that I can think would have an effect on my sleeping.
Lastly, when I wake up I am usually "cocooned" in my duvet, despite being cold.

Is anyone able to shed some light on what I could do to try avoid the cold sweats in the morning?

Is your bedding (sheet/duvet cover) 100% cotton? Sometimes find I get clammy if I'm using polycotton bedding/jimjams

thehappybutterfly

I get night sweats too and looking at the responses, it could be any one of these things! But there is nothing worse than waking up soaked in sweat, getting up for the loo and then back into the wet bed which is now f-f-freeeezing!

BlondeHeadOn

Does your heating come on at all in the morning? It doesn't have to be in the bedroom, but if it is set to come on at e.g. 6am (which ours is), it could be that the resulting rise in temperature in the house could be to blame.

Just a more prosaic suggestion, in case it really isn't a brain tumour ......