I picked up a sort of virus in Ealing Hospital in March 2023, friends caught the original form from me as well. But the whole thing mutated into the severe form of Postnasal Drip I still have today.
Eventually I was no longer able to swallow solids, so naturally asked for Liquid foods and my medication (Blood Pressure and Heart) in liquid form. However this was denied, even after Cardiology (Imperial College) started asking the same too.
I was even told no to my face in Northfields Surgery when asking certain Doctors.
The only end result was I just wasted away, using a blender for my foods did not cure things. In the end I could not walk, often not even talk as I became a very skeletal version of the 20+ stone person I was before who liked his food. I made sure I visited Northfields Surgery so they (Doctors and Reception) could see my weight loss first hand and why I was in need of liquid foods and Medication (then Amlodipine, Ramipril, Digoxin and Apixaban, with Bumetanide water Tablets too).
Eventually I went in the Surgery using a wheeled walking frame and asked to be an A+E patient as I could no longer function due to severe malnutrition. This resulted in nearly 10 hours in Resuscitation in West Middlesex Hospital towards the end of July, and a week in the wards while my strength was built up. But the swallowing issue will now rear it's ugly head at least once a week still.
The point is, the doctors at Northfields GP Practice could see what was happening without being able to eat properly with their own eyes. They and reception could see how emaciated I had become,
Can I just add, the Dietitian department at Mattock Lane were 100% brilliant, they confirmed what I had suspected, that the Ensure Compact I have been prescribed in large amounts is going to push my blood sugar levels way too high.
"Severe weight loss and malnutrition"
About: Ealing Community Partners - Adult Community Services / Ealing Adults’ Nutrition and Dietetics Service Ealing Community Partners - Adult Community Services Ealing Adults’ Nutrition and Dietetics Service UB1 3HW Northfields Surgery Northfields Surgery Ealing W13 9QP https://www.northfieldssurgery.nhs.uk/ West Middlesex University Hospital / Accident and emergency West Middlesex University Hospital Accident and emergency Isleworth TW7 6AF West Middlesex University Hospital / Older people's healthcare West Middlesex University Hospital Older people's healthcare TW7 6AF
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