Physio

Today I have physio at the hospital.

I have no idea why I am going to physio. I was originally referred because the nurse at my M.E. clinic had advised I ask my doctor about hydrotherapy as a form of pain relief for both my M.E. related pain and an old injury on my coccyx (tailbone) which has been extremely painful and caused a lot of discomfort since I was 11. It has become much worse with the onset of my M.E.

So after my referral I was set to a local private physiotherapist for six weeks. It was such a waste of time. The first was just an assessment where I explained what pain I was experiencing. Following that four weeks of treatment. I'm not sure what she was treating me for as she didn't look at my coccyx or lower back once. She seemed to concentrate around the shoulders a lot, maybe because I mentioned I was getting shoulder pain because of my gall bladder, but that wasn't what I was going there for and that will be resolved when they remove it anyway. I'm still going to be left with a bad back after that. I couldn't do a lot of the small exercises I was given to do at home because of my knee and gall bladder pain and she didn't seem to be interested in working around that.

The final appointment was such a waste of time. It took five minutes of my 30 minute allocated time slot, was with a different physiotherapist who just asked me to fill in a form about my pain scale following treatment. Well seeing as I wasn't really treated, the same as before I'd say.

So I'm not feeling too optimistic about today.

For one, if this is the start of a course of treatment there really is no point because I'm going to have surgery in two weeks so won't be able to attend. I did make a call to the hospital and ask this question but was told by a very rude receptionist to come anyway. I said I was booked in to see a particular therapist as stated on my letter and was practically screamed at that there is no such therapist and she is fed up of people asking for this lady who doesn't work there, so I won't be seeing this person and she is sick of telling people this. Seriously if this is the case take it up with the people who write the letters, there is no need to be nasty to the patients.

Also I'm not really sure what I'm being referred for. I guess I will find out. I certainly wasn't going to ask the guard dog on reception.

xx