Best hospital/doctors/dentist experience? And worst?

[dbgtz]

I'm sure many of us have been in one of these places a fair few times in our lives, so what would you say is both your best and worst experiences in any of these places?

[Samantha]

Don't really have a best, maybe getting a sticker or £2 for a tooth coming out. Worst was a couple of years ago as I had crowns and they continuously fell out so I got a palette instead. Anyway, the day of the operation came to take them out and they couldn't find a vein to do it - they took 6/7 attempts and said should we just use normal anaesthetic why would I do that when I could have had that at my own dentist? Luckily they found a vein on the last attempt though.

[dbgtz]

Don't really have a best, maybe getting a sticker or £2 for a tooth coming out. Worst was a couple of years ago as I had crowns and they continuously fell out so I got a palette instead. Anyway, the day of the operation came to take them out and they couldn't find a vein to do it - they took 6/7 attempts and said should we just use normal anaesthetic why would I do that when I could have had that at my own dentist? Luckily they found a vein on the last attempt though.

I share the inability to find a vein pain. Had a nurse constantly prod my arm and it was horrible. At least I had no issues with needles at that point

[Samantha]

I share the inability to find a vein pain. Had a nurse constantly prod my arm and it was horrible. At least I had no issues with needles at that point

Lmao another bad one was more recently in May. I had chest pains and had been rushed to hospital a couple of days before and they started at work. So I ended up back in hospital and the nurse refused to take blood because my veins were so tiny - literally I was so bruised from the one I had a couple of days before (fun fact, that vein where they got the blood from has never gone back to normal, it's all blue and big now where my veins are more purple and you can't see them much at all). Anyway, they had to put one of those things around my arm to get the veins up, and he put the needle in and it was going fine... needle fell out, I'm there bleeding all over the bed and he had to cover it up quick. He was just like "It fell out." so he had to do it again and this time it took 2 attempts, my arm was so bruised and we found the best place for veins was the top of my hand lmao.

[dbgtz]

Lmao another bad one was more recently in May. I had chest pains and had been rushed to hospital a couple of days before and they started at work. So I ended up back in hospital and the nurse refused to take blood because my veins were so tiny - literally I was so bruised from the one I had a couple of days before (fun fact, that vein where they got the blood from has never gone back to normal, it's all blue and big now where my veins are more purple and you can't see them much at all). Anyway, they had to put one of those things around my arm to get the veins up, and he put the needle in and it was going fine... needle fell out, I'm there bleeding all over the bed and he had to cover it up quick. He was just like "It fell out." so he had to do it again and this time it took 2 attempts, my arm was so bruised and we found the best place for veins was the top of my hand lmao.

Bad bruising after taking a blood sample? That must suck mine were only ever small if I ever even saw them. I was also left bleeding once... Can't quite remember how he screwed up but nothing to do with bruises or anything like that. I feel like this must be made by nurses/doctors a lot lmao but at least it's always better than it looks.

[_HeyyItsHannah_]

Hahha

It really isn't a DOCTOR experience but it was a bad hospital experience.

I'm in hospitals a lot. I have a few medical problems that make that happen, but a few years ago, I got really sick. No one knew what was wrong with me. I ended up staying in the hospital for about a month for something that just started as the flu. I was transferred to a different hospital after I got out of the ICU and was transferred to Riley's. At the hospital, they have a little TV that the patients can watch that is hooked onto a camera showing the fish that are in the tank. To calm and soothe the patients. Well, that was wonderful for a while. Finally a few days after, I was watching the fish and I noticed something weird in the tank. I pulled my dad over and asked what it was. He didn't exactly tell me. He just told me everything was okay and to go back to sleep. Well. I didn't. Me as a curious child yknow. He went out and told the nurses that the fish were eating each other and that those were fish bones in the tank!

Not so soothing for patients watching fish eat each other

[_HeyyItsHannah_]

Don't really have a best, maybe getting a sticker or £2 for a tooth coming out. Worst was a couple of years ago as I had crowns and they continuously fell out so I got a palette instead. Anyway, the day of the operation came to take them out and they couldn't find a vein to do it - they took 6/7 attempts and said should we just use normal anaesthetic why would I do that when I could have had that at my own dentist? Luckily they found a vein on the last attempt though.

Haha I have these types of experiences all the time. Not at a dentist though. Just when they have to IV me.

When I was in the hospital, one of the experiences was in my story above, they had to start an IV in me right away. So the student nurses came in and started. Well they couldn't insert the IV. Mind you, i've had this done many times so tbh I could have just done it myself so they couldn't find a vein to insert it in. The reason that they can't usually find a vein because you are dehydrated and it's harder to find them because of that. So they tried in my arm for like 5 minutes poking and proding and they had they tourniquet on the whole time so my arm was like hurting so bad. They just couldn't find anything, so finally I told them to just do it in my hand and they seemed to think that was a wonderful idea. Like what. The doctor came in then and took them out i think and probably yelled at them

Wonderful student nurses

[e5]

don't think I've had a best or worst, neither really phase me but neither do they excite me! Worst hospital I guess though was when I drank a bottle of Malibu and ending up in hospital on the drip

[Gina]

worst dentist experience was when i was like 9/10
i was asking how many baby teeth i had left and he started counting
i forgot and didnt know what he was counting
he got to 9 and i screamed and cried thinking he was counting fillings
i was freaking i was like ahhhhh but i brush my teeth nooo what is happening

hospital experience theres never really a best or worst for me
ive only been to A+E many many times so its gets as bad as waiting 6 hours and as good as waiting 2 lmao
unless youre counting visiting people then best would be just when i was younger theres a hospital me and charlotte used to visit and itd not exactly a busy place at allll so in the main reception bit me and charlotte would always run around and play whilst my mum would go check its okay for us to go in
obv we knew that hospitals arent a place for everyone to have fun and laugh and whatever but when youre both like 4 you dont really understand and you dont really know whats going on i guess so making fun of it is all we could do but thats visiting anyway so idk if that counts

doctors i dont really have a best or worst because i refuse to go half the time so its just like
go there, get pills for whatev
or its go there, get bloodtest, get pills

its not v exciting