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I agree with Des Spence that doctors are not the most gifted or caring people in society.
My experience of general practice over the past four years has filled me with dismay. Advised to withdraw from Nitrazepam after 40 years’ consumption, I became bedridden. Unable to tolerate light or sound, intolerable pressure inside my head, squeezing sensations inside my brain, perceptual disturbances, all my nerves “screaming” out, unable to tolerate clothes next to my skin, hardly able to stand, I had little idea of the passage of time and slept excessively. Living alone, texting was my main contact with the outside world. After 3 months, I finally managed to telephone my surgery, I was denied a home visit. I dragged myself to the practice in a taxi. A few months later I phoned again. I was advised to come to the surgery to “demonstrate my motivation”. Clearly my intolerable symptoms were deemed psychological. The second refusal of a home visit distressed me so much, I did not contact the practice again for 3 years. Instead I endured a horrendous ordeal that was beyond imagination and have been left disabled as a result. Loss of sensation from the waist down, anal muscles that would not work, horrendous nerve pain, pressure on lungs, unable to breathe. Earlier this year I experienced two jolts, one to the front, the other at the back of my brain. My brain seemed to reconnect with my legs. I once again contacted the surgery, demanded a home vis...
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