Anyone know of private Neurologist

[Chocolate]

My daughter, 18 yrs old, has been suffering severe headaches for months, doctors have prescribed medication which dows not help but my daughter is in severe pain everyday in tears, want to have a private MRI or visit a Neurologist, does anyone know of anyone close by or any good recommendations please

[Melihoople]

Yes, Doctor Holmes at Guys and St Thomas is very good. He does have private practice at London bridge, you can speak to his secretary there. Or get your GP to refer via NHS.

[Sue]

Also I suggest you change your GP.

[Chocolate]

They are all useless especially during Covid, nothing seems important anymore except Covid, called 111 they suggested to call docs again!!!!

[Sue]

Chocolate Wrote:

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> They are all useless especially during Covid,

> nothing seems important anymore except Covid,

> called 111 they suggested to call docs again!!!!

In my experience referrals are still being made to hospitals. In fact the NHS is encouraging people not to avoid doctors and hospitals if they are ill.

From what you say I think you should insist on a referral. Your daughter needs investigation to find out what is wrong, not medication which isn't working.

Also, I suggest you call 111 again, you may get somebody more helpful. Usually they pass you on to a GP to speak to on the phone, not tell you to phone your own GP!

Alternatively as a last resort you could go to A&E.

I recently had to go to A&E (told to go there by 111!) and it was not busy when I went, I was seen very quickly.

[gabys1st]

Google Kings College Hospital Neurology..it is a centre of excellence and research...my guess is if going private for starters you will need a general neurologist then maybe referre on to specialised-dunno but you will aalso see which have private practices and find private secs phone.. gonn be a **** sight quicker than goig thru NHS... I know from experience, long waiting list for appts pre cov id,,,worse now. I THINK that 1st appt to assess yoou is fairly fast just in case urgent treatment is deemed nec.

[Huggers]

My (young adult) daughter has had two weeks of headaches and when she managed to contact surgery for appointment last week she was given emergency GP appointment at St Thomas hospital that evening who then sent her to A&E for tests. The ?continuous headache not responding to painkillers? category triggered the ?must be seen within 8 hours? alert.

[IlonaM]

Professor Peter Goadsby, a leading authority on headaches, has a team at King's - Headache clinic under Neurology. He is very proactive. Get a referral from your GP or you could probably see him privately.

Just won an award: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/mar/04/scientists-discovered-migraine-mechanism-win-brain-prize

[Cora]

Can recommend Nancy Nunn at Nunhead Osteopaths in the meantime.

[Chocolate]

Thank you, we called docs and they are giving a higher dose of medication which i dont think will work. Ive tried calling several times the Neurology dept at Kings without success, keeps saying noone in the department.

How can An Osteopath help??

[IlonaM]

Have pm'd you.

[Guest]

In my opinion you should stop immediately whatever medication you are giving her without a diagnosis, do not assume you need a neurologist neither! severe migraine can be a symptom of a wide range of conditions from allergies to cancer.

I urge you to have your GP attention on the case to get immediate blood tests and exclude a number of possible serious diseases, they will then refer to hospital for MRI scan follow that, if it is the case.

Drink lot of water, change (drastically) food intake, avoid processed and spicy food, do physical exercise even if in in pain, breathe fresh air. Taking painkillers that do not have any effect is utterly wrong. Do avoid that.

your GP would surely agree for a check up if you report the seriousness of the pain and the fact it doesn't go away with painkillers. say you do not want prescription but a check up, and that's it.

[Sue]

Huggers Wrote:

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> My (young adult) daughter has had two weeks of

> headaches and when she managed to contact surgery

> for appointment last week she was given emergency

> GP appointment at St Thomas hospital that evening

> who then sent her to A&E for tests. The

> ?continuous headache not responding to

> painkillers? category triggered the ?must be seen

> within 8 hours? alert.

Yes exactly.

If the GP is not taking this seriously, I really would urge you to go to A&E.

A headache for months that does not respond to painkillers needs urgent investigation, not yet more painkillers.

[Cora]

Osteopaths deal with headaches all the time. I wouldn't say they should be an alternative to getting her checked out with a specialist Dr but Nancy Nunn is a qualified, extremely experienced paediatitric Osteopath who I think could help her. You are best contacting her to discuss, she will be better at explaining the role of a Qualified Paediatric Osteopath in this instance.

[IlonaM]

Professor Goadsby is on Radio 4's The Life Scientific today - available to download at https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000vp2z or also on again this evening at 2130.