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These are symptoms of pre-eclampsia. I'm sorry you're not getting support. Do you know the assessment unit want to entertain you? Which trust is this?
@Anna it’s Durham. They said it’s for the community midwife to deal with not them. Explained to them my midwife said I had to call them if wasn’t better but didn’t sound bothered
Sounds mad to me, especially as I'm pretty sure the community midwifes tend to be non-urgent & Mon-Fri. I'd either ring assessment back again and hope for someone different or if it is the same person, say you've got signs of pre-eclampsia and you've not been able to get through to anyone. If all else fails, I'd do 111 online. Good luck
@Anna I said that but apparently they work 7 days a week. Thank you
This is awful. Call back, say you have reduced movement, headaches and black spots. They’ll HAVE to see you, and they’ll check your blood pressure and ask for a urine sample.
Call back and tell them you’re not happy with their response and you need to come in/want a second opinion- keep advocating for yourself and your baby, I know you shouldn’t have to but you’re doing right thing x
These are pre-eclampsia symptoms. Did they check your urine for protein? Ring triage. They will take it seriously. Tell them your blood pressure is high, you’re having black spots and also just say baby’s movements isn’t right. Triage will tell you to come in asap. While there they will test your urine for protein as a standard too
Do Durham community midwives work over the weekend? Some don’t and if they do, it’s skeleton staff only (only 1/2 midwives covering a whole area). I’d ring triage back and say you’ve followed their advice, can’t get in touch but feel anxious and you’d like attend to have your BP taken.
Explain you’re really anxious to your assessment centre as you can’t get hold of a midwife. They should want to see you if you are seeing dots etc. especially at your stage of pregnancy too. Good luck x