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  • Arsenetatters
    Arsenetatters Posts: 6,188
    Peter_G said:

    @Arsenetatters When I was referred for an echocardiogram I waited a few days for an appointment, but, having heard nothing and feeling quite unwell, on 9th June last year I just went in person with my referral letter to the cardio dept at the hospital (the Princess Royal in Farnborough) and asked the receptionist for an appointment. I was given one just two days later. When they did the echocardiogram on 11th June I was admitted immediately. If you have a referral letter it might be worth trying the direct approach?
    I then waited several months for the 24 hr ECG monitor, and thankfully it didn’t reveal any new horrors, but it was the echocardiogram that was the key test for me. 
    Thank you for this! Although on the text from the NHS is says contact us if you don’t hear from us by April I used the code they gave me to go into the referrals online and book myself in for 1st March for the echocardiogram. Not sure how that worked but it’s all on the NHS direct app that I have an appointment now. Very strange but I’m not arguing!

    That must have been quite a shock to be admitted immediately after your test. 
  • Peter_G
    Peter_G Posts: 881
    Arsenetatters 
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    That must have been quite a shock to be admitted immediately after your test. 
    I had driven to the hospital with my daughter and had my car in the car park, but the doctor flatly refused to let me back out again. My daughter doesn’t drive so I had to call her brother to come and get the car.

    Good to hear that you got the appointment. I sincerely hope that you get a good result. 
  • Peter_G
    Peter_G Posts: 881
    An update on my heart ‘condition’. I’ve been waiting for a cardio MRI scan for months, and King’s rang me a couple of weeks ago saying that the waiting list was so long that they were now sub-contracting scans to a private hospital (the HCA in The Shard building) and could I go there on 20th March which I agreed to. Last Wednesday King’s called again and said that HCA had bumped me off (so to speak) so I was back on the NHS waiting list, however a scan had become available at King’s yesterday, so off I trotted to Denmark Hill and had it done.
    It’s quite an experience; almost an hour in the scanning tube with regular instructions to breathe out and hold my breath for maybe 7 or 8 seconds at a time and that seemed to go on about 50 times. They injected a contrast fluid into my blood stream about halfway through.
    I can see how some might find it difficult, particularly if you’re even slightly claustrophobic, but I was ok with it.
    So now it’s a two week wait for the results. 🤞 
  • LargeAddick
    LargeAddick Posts: 33,470
    I had an irregular heart beat, up to 150 when resting !! Had a couple of ECG’s, then a cardiogram and then a cardio version to shock me back into rhythm. That was last April/May time. All done privately because I wanted to get it sorted, about £4.5k in total. My consultant then suggested I have an ablation which is more of a permanent fix. He referred me back to the NHS as I couldn’t/would’nt fund it myself any further. Had a telephone consult today the upshot of which is that I’m now on the list for the procedure.

    Hope everything works out @Arsenetatters whatever route you take.

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