Sore elbow, possible chipped bone - wait for dr app or A & E when quiet for check-up?

FBaby

You need to go to the least interventional clinic that however does offer x-rays as that's the only way anyone will be able to tell if you've done proper damage beyond a nice big bruise.

GobbledyGook

I'd go to whoever has an x-ray machine. No-one else is going to be able to tell you if it's chipped.

Could you not phone your GP and explain what has happened? If they are likely to refer you to A&E anyway they may do that over the phone and in some places a GP referral helps you get straight to xray rather than waiting for triage, then waiting for xray.

Lunar_Eclipse

Given what you've said, I would go to A&E (for an X-ray.)

(As an aside, since it was mentioned early on, I do not believe this constitutes medical advice. It's the next course of action I would take, which differs from take x drug, use ice/heat, bind or not etc which I would then consider medical advice.)

danih

Thank you everybody!

My intent has been to get opinions on my next course of action - rather then medical advice. Might have muddled this up with my detailed destription of my elbow. In my defence I am a little tramatised - its a lot of discomfort caused by a rather small Westie. I've never heard of anyone else getting floored by a Westie - my cat is bigger.

I can't get speaking to my GP on the phone - just the receptionist.

I can't find any walk in clinics in Northern Ireland - one search found the closest one to be Manchester!

I will try A and E (ED? must check) on my way home tonight. If its manic I'll try again early tomorrow morning.

I will keep you updated. Thank you so much for all your kind wishes. I am grumpy and sore, and very aware that even IF i am right and it is chipped, it is certainly on the minor end of stuff to worry about.

LilElvis

One of my elbow breaks was done tripping over walking out of the front door and sprawling myself on the path. My sister stepped over my body and picked up the Bourbon biscuit I had been carrying. Doesn't take a lot to do some damage!

heartbreak_star

Hope you get sorted soon Re GP, I've found you can ask the receptionist if the doc can call you

HBS x

sacha28

Ok, jumping on the bandwagon

You had an accident that has resulted in an injury.....you have 3 options.
1) Wait for your GP, if and when you can get through the receptionist.
2) Go to your local minor injuries unit. Most of these will have xray facilities. Unfortunately they only operate these at certain times, not 24 hours, not every day, so it's a bit hit and miss and you will probably find yourself being packed off to your district hospital.
3) Cut out the middle man and go to your district hospital that has a 24 hour ACCIDENT and emergency department.

I have no idea why a pp started on some stupid high horse about the name of the department. I am a an A&E nurse, we still call it A&E, it still says A&E above the door, we answer the phones 'good morning A&E', the ambulance board still says 'conveying to A&E for assessment'.

Someone has clearly spent too much time with their head up their own backside :rotfl:

dizziblonde

Person_one wrote: »

You have to remember, it's not the same everywhere. Plenty of trusts still have 'accident & emergency' above the door, on all the signage and on all the literature/paperwork. In some, it's ED internally but still A&E to the public, deliberately.

It seems rather petty to keep correcting people on it, especially when they might not even be wrong!

(Also, I might just throw this phone out the window, it keeps making me look daft.)

Ours can't make its own mind up on the signs - you can be walking down one corridor following the signs to A+E reception, then turn a corner and it's ED reception and then back and forth again!

(Was there this weekend with what I wasn't sure if it was a wrist fracture or not... turned out I've just walloped all the soft tissue belting the side of my wrist off the edge of a bookshelf). Least I got in two days before the parking prices went up again!

Polmop

Hi OP did you go and get an xray

fluffnutter

When I read the title of this thread I genuinely thought someone had brought out a new app that diagnoses stuff for you. Probably called 'Is it cancer?' or something. You just wave your limb in the direction of your ipad or phone and bingo! there's your diagnosis (along with a list of sites where you can buy the appropriate drugs to treat it)