Too old for treatment?

Do go back and see somebody else, totally unacceptable.

At almost 80 I have had excellent treatment for most of the time,and this continues.......... with 18 months of procedures and now a further life saving operation offered...........sadly I do believe you simply struck unlucky Watermeadow and please do not let it deter you from finding another sympathetic Doctor immediately.You deserve and need to be heard and your symptoms properly assessed ..............your age has nothing to do with this shoddy non treatment you recieved.

Good heavens I’m finding myself saying yet again ‘spot on Monica’

I went to see a GP on Monday. That’s the first time I’ve been to the surgery in over 2 years and sadly, I ended up with the elderly, white, disinterested specimen who should have been put put to grass years before. So I understand. where you’re coming from.

BUT, as he was clearly not up to the job I have to more or less bully him into sending me for an x-ray (left ankle severe ongoing pain) and prescribing a strong anti inflammatory for short term relief. He would have been quite happy to send me away empty handed.

I suggest you refuse to see that particular GP again. I should have done so had I not been in excruciating pain for past week and was just happy to get same day appointment.

Us oldies should be entitled to the same healthcare as youngsters. After all, if new treatments and procedures are carried out on us they will help the generations coming along behind us. I would be so angry at this GP especially if you dont go to the docters very often.Maybe see another GP or even a nurse they will always get GP advise if there is a concern about anything.

Swollen ankles and thrombophlebitis . ECG, full set of bloods . When those were clear, I was referred for Doppler scans on legs and ankles to check circulation then to “Legs 11” clinic for measuring for compression (flight-type) knee length socks which I collected today.
Not the most fun I have ever had, but I felt anything that could be done, was.
I am 70
Your Dr needs a kick up the jaxie.

watermeadow, why are you letting your current doctor treat you like this. He only gets away with acting like this because patients like you just creep away and, in your words will do my bit by dying quietly without troubling him further. Tell him that his attitude is unacceptable and go and see another doctor in the practice. nothing will change until someone stands up for themselves.

At 92 doctors considered my father fit enough to have a ground breaking keyhole operation on his aortic valve. The only reason it didn't go ahead was because he developed an infection that wouldn't clear-up.

We are both over seventy and none of the GPs in our practice have ever shrugged off our symptoms. You need to change your GP.

my mother has cataracts removed in her mid eighties .we've never had problems with treatment.Change your doctor

Did he do NOTHING then!
No water retention meds?
No blood pressure check?
No listening to your heart?
Did he feel the ankles?
If no to all of the above then I would firstly get an appt. with a different gp and secondly report him to the practice manager.

We are never too old to live! I'd look for a new doctor also.

Change doctor quick. I've never heard anything like it if that really was his attitude.

I have found really good treatment and concern from my doctors I have never had any second rate treatment because of my age and think you must be unlucky with your doctor so yes change for sure

My MiL has just had a pacemaker fitted. She’s 98. The dr told her the batteries would last 10 years....

So - what did he actually do or say?

Se a different doctor.