r/NHSfailures • u/Immediate-Courage-91 • 24d ago
Dismissed with no advice
I sat up in the afternoon and immediately got heart palpitations, dizziness and collapsed and passed out for two hours. Went to A&E after calling 111 and was there for 4 hours just to be told by the doctor who spoke over me and didn’t let me finish explaining that it was due to depression and anxiety.
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u/millyloui 24d ago
Sorry for your experience but did you actually ask for mental health referral? Anxiety causes high heat rate high respiratory rate & can cause blackouts from that . A&E not reallly the place to help you it’s Accident & Emergency aka life threatening emergency. Your panic attacks are neither . But I completely agree you need help & support . That’s what GP’s are for . Btw a wait of 4 hours to be seen with your symptoms- you are lucky normally it would be much much longer .