Quote from: alex82 on June 18, 2016, 02:12:59 PM
Oh god. I did self refer, and booked a private appointment to start things off - having checked first that it wouldn't prejudice me accessing NHS resources, and then ended up telling my NHS GP the following week anyway.

Yes, 16 months was what I was told. Their guidelines say no longer than 7 months. It's a ridiculous time to wait for an official 'diagnosis' that they could start working towards, so I increased my overdraft to go privately.

Over a year is an absolute joke. My private specialist is one of the best - if you can travel and pay, I'm happy to tell you who she is via PM, and my NHS GP is quite pushy - so I've got the legal and mandatory psychiatry 'I'm not just a nutter' side of things done. And the fertility side of things is being done. They were happy to start prescribing hormones by now, but I can't until that's fixed.

He's also very happy to work to her schedule and guidelines, which was what I worried they wouldn't do. Everything she's asked for, he's done. She doesn't leave any doubt - he read her latest letter to him about me while I was there, and the clarity was impressive - can you please get this, this, and this, explicitly, by date.

Quote from: SashaGrace on June 18, 2016, 01:51:47 PM
That's what I said!! Didn't go down well

From memory my first GIC appointment at Charring Cross GIC took about 22 months from the first time I went into the GP to being seen. It's all painfully slow but practically the only way to get the legal side done!! Xx

Well lucky I rang when I did because I've got my year abroad next year and the year after that will probably be my last year in Nottingham!! Also, I'm not rushing to get on hormones just yet, the thing I need most is to talk to a professional about how I'm feeling and make sure I know what I want to do. If that's hormones then so be it

Quote from: Hannah Samira on June 18, 2016, 02:43:57 PM
Well lucky I rang when I did because I've got my year abroad next year and the year after that will probably be my last year in Nottingham!! Also, I'm not rushing to get on hormones just yet, the thing I need most is to talk to a professional about how I'm feeling and make sure I know what I want to do. If that's hormones then so be it

Good decision I think. Rush into nothing for nobody.