I’m just looking for a place to vent, I’ve been waiting for test results forever.
It’s a long story but I’ll keep it brief, I’ve had problems with my immune system in the past few years, I’ve had abscesses where I shouldn’t, sepsis from catching a cold, not little things, my blood tests are always abnormal, chronic high lymphocytes, deranged LFTs, raised CRP, fevers and horrendous night sweats, there is clearly something wrong but it’s still an absolute battle to get anywhere.
My GP has been liaising with haematology and they would only do further testing if I met a certain criteria after 3 months, so after that wait I still met the criteria so great news the tests were done! However that was in November, and I’m still waiting, my doctors just gave me a blood form to take to hospital for them to do the blood test, it had the type of test written on it so I’m aware that they are looking for blood cancer, my symptoms pretty much fit that idea, but the most I’ve got out of a GP is sometimes people have abnormal cells so you are probably fine, and fob me off with we can’t do anything until the tests come back.
It may sound like I’m complaining, but I have had an awful lot of tests done, so I know that I’ve had a lot of things ruled out and that the NHS was excellent at ruling out acute causes, but now it’s looking more chronic it’s so painfully slow, I have chased my GP for the results, and I’ve also contacted PALs at the hospital where I had bloods taken, I just feel like they’ve been lost and I just can’t stand to wait all over again.
Any advice is welcome, especially for the waiting anxiety! Or any next steps suggestions.
