I've read so many recent posts on here from others younger than me who have significantly worse symptoms than I do and have seen ENT specialists within days and it's completely breaking me.
I've seen 6 GPs recently about spitting up blood and pain in my throat (not sore throat like actual pain, more like mass) they practically ignore what I tell them, or they do not even try to diagnose my problems. After literally telling the last GP I had a lump on my tonsil she just had a quick look and reported she couldn't see anything, if she used a tongue decompress she would have seen it, I figured she would try a bit harder since I reported seeing it myself but no one cares because I'm "a young man". I'm 32, smoked for over a decade and drank heavily over the pandemic with depression.
I've been spitting blood for 8 weeks. Every week more blood. With extreme fatigue, headache, ear ache, occasionally swollen tonsils.... Early I got an urgent referral for an X-ray, that came back fine according to a specialist but maybe with a small apical thickening according to another, either way the lungs are clear and I have no cough so it doesn't worry me. But spitting blood every day really does. This week it's been every 2 hours, bright red. I go back to the GP, report things are worse, they do nothing, becuse im "a young man", because "I seem healthy". I've seen 6 GPs, not one has even ordered a blood test.
It just kills me to read that others have seen ENTs quickly, I've been told that if I was 40 I would have seen an ENT in 2 weeks... the wait til is 20 weeks. I've already been spitting blood for 8. By the time I see a specialist it will be well over 6 months from first reporting symptoms.
I don't know what to do anymore, I honestly just want to give up on life, I feel so chronically failed by every aspect of the NHS, noone cares while I'm in significant distress with worrying symptoms and frequent pain.
What should I do? I feel like my only shot is to raise a complaint to the NHS to see if something can be done but I expect they'll tell me the same thing everyone else has. I can barely take waiting a few more days let alone 20 weeks.
