"I still have a long road and believe the treatment I received first is unacceptable"

a doctor working in frenchay made me feel belittled and treated me like I was being pathetic and as a health professional I don’t believe that it was in his duristition to make a patient feel so bad but u decide here is my story.

I went in to hospital in a lot of pain in my left hip to a point I couldn't walk so they admitted me to do tests and the first day I had a CT and was put on some strong pain relief. The next day I saw the doctor who examined me and said its probably just muscle you’ve had three kids and you need to get a grip and then he went on to say that he would take me off pain relief and put me on a topical gel and considering the pain I was in I thought he was mad but I was in too much pain to argue. He then said that he was sending in the general surgeons and if they didn’t find anything then he would send me to southmead to have a few tests and then if they didn’t find anything then I would be sent home and then he left.

The general surgeons were happy that it wasn’t surgical and just one hour later I was in so much pain that the nurses took it in their own hands to give me some pain relief. After that I was moved to southmead where they couldn’t find anything and asked what I was doing next when I said I was being sent home they were alarmed. They said I was in to much pain to go home so they would try to get me back up frenchay to have the proper care.

I was readmitted after some begging from southmead and this time saw a different doctor and they finally found out that I had trapped nerve but only after another two days in hospital they put me on appropriate pain relief and sent home.

I am now having the matter investigated but feel confused and upset about the whole episode and am now trying to get back on my feet some 9 months later and I still have a long road and believe that the treatment I received first is unacceptable