Organ Donations

[Psycho Sonny]

Of course it's not really true - if it were, I'm sure they wouldn't have spent all those years at University while accomplishing all that medical training and would instead simply toss burgers in Maccy D's for 35K+ P/A

While I don't know Sonny personally I get the impression (from his posts in this thread) he's a keen body builder (yet to post pics) and has previously "taken juice" (what ever that means?). I'm also fairly sure that your average GP will have a far superior knowledge of the human body than your average body builder. However as is common in DG we've digressed a little off topic here haven't we?

dude GP's dont have a clue about bodybuilding or the human body, in fact they dont have a clue about anything in specific, they are not specialists.

for instance i saw several different GP's for my knee (had pain in my knee 24/7 and my knee would dislocate when put under heavy stress, playing football for example), all of them did ACL test and said, nothing wrong with it, i saw a specialist after 2 years and she immediately noted at least 3 problems, one of them being a loose patella and extreme hyper mobility. i even told the GP's my knee is dislocating and im in extreme pain when it happens and i need to pop it back in and they were like herp derp there is nothing wrong with it and it will fix itself if there is a problem

GP's are there to send you out the door as fast as possible with a prescription for antibiotics. if they cannot fix the problem with that, then they send you to a specialist.

its funny how as soon as i started physio, within 2 weeks my knee pain vanished after over 2 years of asking the GP for help.

the clue should be in their title GP.

 

[xarr]

why does that rule you out? my blood is perfectly safe

You should never give blood if:

You have ever had syphilis, HTVL (Human T - lymphotorpic virus), hepatitis B or C or think you may have hepatitis now

You're a man who's had sex with another man, even safe sex using a condom. For more information click here.

You've ever worked as a prostitute.

You've ever injected yourself with drugs - even once.

https://secure.blood.co.uk/c11_cant.asp

Incase your unsure of what drugs are, here is the question from the donor health check:

Have you ever injected yourself or been injected with illegal or non-prescribed drugs including body-building drugs or cosmetics (even if this was only once or a long time ago)?

Its all down to an increased risk of infection, if you have injected non-prescribed drugs you are at an increased risk of infection and they don't want your blood.

 

[Sonea Fifer]

Hey there, yes I've bumped another thread but this is something I feel quite strongly about as I'd hope many others do as well? Anyway the NHS has recently launched a new campaign to encourage more donors:

Pretty much sums up this thread.