"Misdiagnosis"

On Tuesday at around 13:30 I went to the A&E department to get advice and a diagnosis on a strain I had done at work cutting hard stems with secetares. As I arrived the receptionist was quiet and pleasant and we had waited about 45 minutes. When I was seen by a nurse, who was training a student at the time, and asked me a few preliminary questions and I had told them that I believed it was a strain and they seemed to get their diagnosis from my own assumption, rather than doing much further investigation. They told me to do a few wrist movements and asked where the pain was and immediately said it was repetitive strain injury/tendonitis and began explaining this to the student. Having been so confident in their diagnosis I presumed it must have been accurate, and they gave me a splint to keep on for the next 5 days but I might be able to take it off in 3 with regular intake of ibuprofen. It now being 6 days later and having just seen my gp this was totally not the case. The conclusion has now been made that I may have damaged my tendons or torn a muscle in my hand/arm. Having kept it in a splint has been a detrimental course of action as it has protected my wrist and not at all the damaged area where purple and yellow bruising has now surfaced and I am still in a great deal of pain. As a piano player also with damage particularly to my little finger which I cannot straighten this has seriously impeded many aspects of my life and I am appalled no referral to my GP was made to double check. I've waited a week before taking my own action based on the residing nurses advice. Seriously disappointed and will from now on take the journey to Hull when I have any minor injury.