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Post by Merge on Jul 31, 2020 1:42:20 GMT
We’ve had telehealth for everything that could be done that way, and in person with masks all around for things that couldn’t. We’ve also heard of private practices here turning away anyone with COVID-like symptoms and telling them to go to an urgent care. So if y’all were dealing with a cough, that makes sense.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 31, 2020 16:44:39 GMT
My challenge is that I have year-round allergies and asthma. I LIVE with a few covid like symptoms. They know this. I will never NOT be congested or not be short of breath.
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Post by sam9 on Jul 31, 2020 17:14:06 GMT
I've put all routine maintenance on hold for my family. Too much trouble. My son had a perforated eardrum earlier in the summer and we waited almost 12 hours for him to be seen.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 31, 2020 17:27:12 GMT
Is there another GP you can switch to? If not, ask to have the doctor call you back and explain that it makes no sense to get tested now for an appointment in September as your asthma and allergy symptoms won’t go away by then either. I had to do this for DS after they made him get tested twice and did little else. By the third time I said we wanted to speak to a doctor who finally did a virtual appointment and prescribed antibiotics and an inhaler. Also when we booked his annual with his GP, we did say he does have shortness of breath and tested negative twice and they were okay with us booking the appointment.
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Post by bratkar on Jul 31, 2020 17:32:27 GMT
Hot Spot area
PCP, you wait in the car,until they call, do all the pre stuff they can do on the phone, get temp checked at the entrance of the building go up to the office, only one in the office. head in, do the weigh in all that... still have office visits, exit through back door so they can have next person waiting in the waiting room (which all but two chairs have been removed) Did my mammo in the hospital radiology section labs done at the hospital lab
Husband was just DX with epilepsy in May, first doctor would ONLY do telemedicine and kept scheduling further and further out. PCP gave us a name of a new Neuro, he was amazing! got us in within a week in the office and LISTENED... He did mention he tried telemedicine and none of his patients wanted it, so back to the office they came
my PCP did mention they dont know how they will handle the 'fall allergy and cold season', or even flu season at this point...
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Post by paigepea on Jul 31, 2020 17:57:56 GMT
Mine is not seeing anything that she feels she can do over the phone.
I had severe breast pain last month so I scheduled a call. Based on the call she’d either decide to do an in person exam or send me for screening. She sent me right for breast u/s the next week. It was a cyst.
My Dh is seeing some patients in his office but he takes the history over zoom from his desk before his exam so they can be in different rooms. He even has the med student in a different room in the clinic on the same zoom call and then they al meet up for the least amount of time as possible.
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Post by crimsoncat05 on Jul 31, 2020 18:03:46 GMT
Is there another GP you can switch to? If not, ask to have the doctor call you back and explain that it makes no sense to get tested now for an appointment in September as your asthma and allergy symptoms won’t go away by then either. I had to do this for DS after they made him get tested twice and did little else. By the third time I said we wanted to speak to a doctor who finally did a virtual appointment and prescribed antibiotics and an inhaler. Also when we booked his annual with his GP, we did say he does have shortness of breath and tested negative twice and they were okay with us booking the appointment. honestly, if I wasn't going to be seen about either the asthma or the allergies, I'd say 'no' when they asked me those questions. I know I have allergies, so I don't have any UNUSUAL, or *new-to-me* symptoms. I feel comfortable that I'm not lying when I answer the questions, even though I am answering them No. (I have coughing / congestion if I don't take my allergy meds; if I do take them, I don't have those symptoms. Why would I answer yes to that, then? I don't see that as lying. If it was COVID or something else, the allergy meds wouldn't help.) If I had asthma and the shortness of breath is WORSE than typical for me, THEN I would answer Yes when asked at the doctor's office. Otherwise, I'd answer no. When I *did* have unusual symptoms (unusual for me) that were on the COVID list, I did go and get tested.
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Post by quietgirl on Jul 31, 2020 19:24:51 GMT
Per your update... I just want to say I'm sorry and give you a hug. I get it, I understand your feelings. Cry it out, because it's frustrating and terrible and it sucks. No other way around it. You need to see the Dr to have things done. I hope you feel better.
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Post by RedSquirrelUK on Jul 31, 2020 19:51:39 GMT
I'm in the UK, and I had a similar thing so I can 100% relate to crying. I did too, many times, and I'm not a weeper.
Back in March I had Covid-or-similar (no tests then) with breathlessness that didn't go away so I was given inhalers. By the time I got chest infection #2 at week 10 they were testing, so even though the breathlessness, cough and fever were due to the chest infection, I had to get tested before I could get a chest x-ray and blood tests, but still couldn't get a face-to-face appointment with a GP even after I tested negative.
Everything else was done over the phone. The doctor had told me over the phone to stop my inhaler, and I couldn't without getting much worse. I saw the respiratory nurse on Tuesday - yes, 4 months later - and she diagnosed me with asthma and increased my inhaler dose instead. Today I felt amazing - properly well for the first time in 4 months!
I'm so sorry they felt they couldn't help via video-link. Hopefully things will open up for you, especially as you haven't got many cases in your area. Big hugs.
ETA: no positive test results at my GP surgery since the end of March.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 31, 2020 20:25:54 GMT
@bdhardy: Same here!! Both of my ears needed a lavage. I had one ear done and then Covid hit and they kept putting off my apointment to do the other ear. This is my primary doctor's office, and the initial ear wasn't even done well. I still have pain and murky hearing. I don't mind that they keep pushing the appointment off, as I don't trust them to begin with. On another note, I began having new migraines daily since late January. I went to my eye surgeon (She saw patients on an emergency basis). She suggested I get imaging done, but said that my primary doctor should order it since it was my entire face hurting. My primary ordered basic x-rays. My eye surgeon said that it showed nothing and said I need to press him for scans. My primary ordered CT scans (no dye) of my face and brain. The report (no cd) went to my primary only,even though I requested that it go to my eye surgeon who has done a dozen eye surgeries on me in a short time. Primary said the report was "negative". Huh??? My eye surgeon never received the report or cd. I had to ask radiology to send the cd and report to my eye surgeon,as requested. They said it'll "take a while". I'm still waiting,and still in pain daily with this!!!!! I'm confused and perplexed as medical offices mostly aren't seeing patients here. So, how are they so busy that it's taking time to get a phone call thru to them or to get anything done? ![???](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/huh.png) Granted, I could reach my very busy eye surgeon any day of the week. I guess that there are crappy doctors and offices like my primary and your doctor's office. I hope you get this taken care of. Sinuses and possible infection could be serious and should be looked at asap.
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Post by pattyraindrops on Jul 31, 2020 20:29:58 GMT
My doctor saw me by video call early on. Now that numbers are much higher in my state they will only see me in person - the insurance only will pay for once.
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Post by FLA SummerBaby on Jul 31, 2020 23:42:10 GMT
I am in FLA (hotspot capital) and my PCP is still seeing patients in person. My appt. was just to get Rx refills and I asked if I could do Tele Health appt. and was told no, I still needed to come in. I have been shocked how few of my doctors are offering Tele Health where they easily could be but many of my friends have doctors that are gladly offering Tele Health options.
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Post by momto4kiddos on Aug 1, 2020 11:06:34 GMT
My parents just had a phone visit with their MD (he tried to do a video visit with them, but they're a bit technologically challenged.) He's seeing them in office next month. They do see him more frequently than just a physical due to their age.
I had a mammogram rescheduled during from May to Sept. So far I have no indication it won't happen. ds had a physical cancelled in April and just got a confirmation text that the rescheduled appt seems to be on schedule for this week.
We are all in the same state so not completely sure why parents MD wasn't seeing them in person. Maybe he's trying to vary how he's seeing people to keep the amount of people coming into the office down?!
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Post by christine58 on Aug 1, 2020 11:47:04 GMT
I had a mammogram rescheduled during from May to Sept. A friend and I have ours this coming week. We had to fill out COVID info online and we can no longer wait for results. We always wait due to her having had BC many years ago. Now we will get results via text. Not sure if we have to call when we get there or how they are handling waiting your turn.
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Post by RosieKat on Aug 1, 2020 18:36:12 GMT
I had to be honest - yes, shortness of breath: I have asthma. Yes congested: I have allergies year round. They are now insisiting I need to go to immediate care to be cleared that I don't have covid before they will even reschedule my appointment TO SEPTEMBER. Honestly, I would recommend lying here. These aren't new symptoms and they are things that I assume your doctor already knows about. I have to call the pediatrician's office once a month to answer questions before getting DS's ADHD meds refilled. He does have a low appetite and he does have some tics, which are both questions they ask - however, the doctor is aware of these and still refills his meds. I look at it as "does he have any new or worsening tics" or "has his low appetite gotten worse" since I know the doctor is OK with his current baseline. So in your case, I would think about if the shortness or breath or congestiong have gotten worse than your usual baseline - if not, then I would answer the question no.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 1, 2020 20:07:44 GMT
I had to be honest - yes, shortness of breath: I have asthma. Yes congested: I have allergies year round. They are now insisiting I need to go to immediate care to be cleared that I don't have covid before they will even reschedule my appointment TO SEPTEMBER. Honestly, I would recommend lying here. These aren't new symptoms and they are things that I assume your doctor already knows about. I have to call the pediatrician's office once a month to answer questions before getting DS's ADHD meds refilled. He does have a low appetite and he does have some tics, which are both questions they ask - however, the doctor is aware of these and still refills his meds. I look at it as "does he have any new or worsening tics" or "has his low appetite gotten worse" since I know the doctor is OK with his current baseline. So in your case, I would think about if the shortness or breath or congestiong have gotten worse than your usual baseline - if not, then I would answer the question no. The nurse at immediate care was very sympathetic that they were using such broad strokes with my normal allergies and asthma. She was planning on calling to have a chat with them about it because they are not using the right wording that their management has asked them to use.
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Post by JustCallMeMommy on Aug 4, 2020 11:32:16 GMT
In your case, I would have answered no or said. “Nothing unusual” if I didn’t want to lie, especially when scheduling so far out. It’s not like your answers now are even relevant to having Covid in 4 or 8 weeks.
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