top_kat
Well-Known Member
I've been battling since July when I first posted about approaching the GP with regards to the skin around my stomach and also pubic area.
Well I've been having issues, intense itching, chronic back ache and ongoing cramps and aches in the skin which feel like period pains. I've got skin infections and horrible boils.
I gave in and made an appointment with my GP - and firstly she didn't recognise me as she hasn't seen me since before my surgery. She was so understanding about what I'm going through but the first thing she said to me was
"You won't get NHS funding here for this".
:argh:
She was saying that she has tried so many times to get help for people, she had one lady whose husband taunted her for having a bigger "scrotum" than he did with her loose skin and how she was almost suicidal with depression. She even bought in a private surgeon to help, to send photos, and everything and still they wouldn't do it.
So, she has given me antibiotics for the skin infections, she's given me cream for the skin, she's given me a whole host of things along with a number for a surgeon she highly recommends.
He used to do this surgery on the NHS, but resigned from them due to the changes they made in funding and because he wasn't able to help the people he really wanted to. He is now based in the Nuffield private hospital which is about 5 mins walk from home.
My GP reckons that my skin is adding a good stone and a half to my weight and I can tell that my trouser legs should be a 14, maybe even a 12, but because of all the skin around my stomach I'm having to wear an 18. This in turn causes issues with irritation from the clothes being too loose :sigh:
Even though I'm having serious issues, she said funding will only be done for exceptional cases and they have yet to find an exceptional case where it has been given. She said our local PCT will do wls but don't do plastics after it - so why wouldn't she refer me initially when I approached her then? She even said today that my BMI had been dangerously high - well no **** sherlock!
She is going to talk to one of the other doctors in the surgery to see if there's anything he suggests. But it looks as if I am going to have to start saving.
I'm going to contact the Nuffield with regards to a consultation, she said they charge about £150, but I noticed the other day on a sign outside saying they do free consultations on cosmetic surgery.
I'm not quite sure whether the issues around the pubic area skin can be done along with the apronectomy but guess I will have to find out. But first, need to let the antibiotics etc kick in cos there's no way I'm letting a man see those issues
I kinda new it would be this way. Although she was much more understanding than when I spoke to her about wls. But. I have to say. I'm disappointed just the same.
Start saving now then . . .
Well I've been having issues, intense itching, chronic back ache and ongoing cramps and aches in the skin which feel like period pains. I've got skin infections and horrible boils.
I gave in and made an appointment with my GP - and firstly she didn't recognise me as she hasn't seen me since before my surgery. She was so understanding about what I'm going through but the first thing she said to me was
"You won't get NHS funding here for this".
:argh:
She was saying that she has tried so many times to get help for people, she had one lady whose husband taunted her for having a bigger "scrotum" than he did with her loose skin and how she was almost suicidal with depression. She even bought in a private surgeon to help, to send photos, and everything and still they wouldn't do it.
So, she has given me antibiotics for the skin infections, she's given me cream for the skin, she's given me a whole host of things along with a number for a surgeon she highly recommends.
He used to do this surgery on the NHS, but resigned from them due to the changes they made in funding and because he wasn't able to help the people he really wanted to. He is now based in the Nuffield private hospital which is about 5 mins walk from home.
My GP reckons that my skin is adding a good stone and a half to my weight and I can tell that my trouser legs should be a 14, maybe even a 12, but because of all the skin around my stomach I'm having to wear an 18. This in turn causes issues with irritation from the clothes being too loose :sigh:
Even though I'm having serious issues, she said funding will only be done for exceptional cases and they have yet to find an exceptional case where it has been given. She said our local PCT will do wls but don't do plastics after it - so why wouldn't she refer me initially when I approached her then? She even said today that my BMI had been dangerously high - well no **** sherlock!
She is going to talk to one of the other doctors in the surgery to see if there's anything he suggests. But it looks as if I am going to have to start saving.
I'm going to contact the Nuffield with regards to a consultation, she said they charge about £150, but I noticed the other day on a sign outside saying they do free consultations on cosmetic surgery.
I'm not quite sure whether the issues around the pubic area skin can be done along with the apronectomy but guess I will have to find out. But first, need to let the antibiotics etc kick in cos there's no way I'm letting a man see those issues
I kinda new it would be this way. Although she was much more understanding than when I spoke to her about wls. But. I have to say. I'm disappointed just the same.
Start saving now then . . .
