Please trust your instincts!

sacha28

I just want to urge all parents to listen to their inner voice if concerned about their little ones.
My poor little man was discharged from hospital today after being treated for a nasty pneumonia.

I took him to the dr on friday, sent home with a 'nasty cold'. Went to out of hours GP on saturday night, sent home with a 'viral infection'. My poor boy didn't drink, eat or move off the sofa for 4 days. I KNEW he was very unwell but was made to feel I was being OTT.
Took him to my work the next day....1/3 of his lung infected with pneumonia. I was told if I had left it one more night he would've been in very serious trouble :eek: Fluids, IV antibiotics and lots of love and care later he is much better

Seeing my poor boy like that was heart breaking and we were very close to a very different outcome!

meritaten

I hope he makes a speedy recovery! I second what you say - a parents instinct is usually right.

krustylouise

Hope your son gets better very soon. Drs nowadays are very quick to dismiss their patients, probably due to overload of patients and work and lack of time.

minimacka

The same thing happened to me when my son was 3 weeks old, I felt like I was being paranoid but then took him to the doctors again to be seen by another doctor it turned out that my d/s had pneumonia and was in hospital for 13 days. It was heart breaking seeing him with so many tubes coming out of his little body.
You have to fight with our doctors to get what you want, this has happened 3 times to my d/s having to go to different doctors to get the right results. I was once told by one doctor "well what do you want me to do about it" ? and when I told him he said that it didn't exist. Another appointment with another doctor and they got him into the place that didn't exist in Sheffield.


Trust your motherly instincts no one else is going to stick up for your child if you don't.


x

peachyprice

I had a similar experience when one of my sons was 6 weeks old, he kept projectile vomitting, everywhere, couldn't keep a feed down. The doctor and HV both said it was gastroenteritis, told me to stop his milk and feed him dioralyte for the wekend and to come back on the Monday if he wasn't any better. I spent the Friday night letting him take little sips, picked him up the next morning and the lot came back. When i took him to a&e at 7am on Saturday morning it turned out he had a pyloric stenosis and needed an operation.

minimacka

peachyprice wrote: »

I had a similar experience when one of my sons was 6 weeks old, he kept projectile vomitting, everywhere, couldn't keep a feed down. The doctor and HV both said it was gastroenteritis, told me to stop his milk and feed him dioralyte for the wekend and to come back on the Monday if he wasn't any better. I spent the Friday night letting him take little sips, picked him up the next morning and the lot came back. When i took him to a&e at 7am on Saturday morning it turned out he had a pyloric stenosis and needed an operation.

This is like my son, he was 13 years old and kept being sick with everything he ate/drank after 4 months he had lost 2 stone and was finally tube fed, it took a whole year to find out what was wrong with him. He had lost a whole year of schooling.

AnnieO1234

My mom-in-law had a similar experience thirty years ago with bro-in-law. She took him to doctors for two weeks, final visit saw a locum who called an ambulance as he was very seriously I'll, pneumonia in both lungs. Ended up in intensive care and still suffers from weak lungs today.

Xxx

JustKeepSwimming_2

Another similar experience here & I echo the OPs point to listen to your instincts.

I was sent home with my DD aged 12 months when my GP said she had a viral infection & that I should give her paracetamol. I'd not been able to get any fluids into her at all for a few hours, not even BF. After no improvement & her not peeing for many hours I saw another GP at the local out-of-hours service - & was sent home again.

Both times she had a temperature (hadn't been able to dribble paracetamol into her) & was very quite & floppy. I am a former healthcare worker & was quite insistent that I thought she was ill, but was patted on the hand & told "We all go through this with our first children, don't worry".

A few hours later we finally made it to A&E via an ambulance which I called after she started fitting. The paramedics took one look & immediately called out the on-call GP who somehow managed to keep her alive until we got to A&E with the blue lights flashing...

Turned out to be pneumococcal meningitis - the one without the rash. :eek:

Amazingly all was well after a course of IV antibiotics & my DD made a complete recovery. We were so, so lucky.

When I could finally bring myself to speak to my GP some days later my point wasn't that he made a mistake/misdiagnosis as I understand that this happens - it was that he (& the second GP) hadn't taken my strength of feelings into account. Especially considering my medical background that he was fully aware of. There are times when parents/carers really do know that something is wrong & GPs etc. should respect this.

If you are in any doubt at all then stamp your foot, & keep stamping if necessary.