Blood Tests prior to surgery

[waisal]

Hi all

 

I am booked in for FUE with Dr Devroye in December and I am UK based he has asked that I have blood tests done for HIV, Hep B and C.

Any advice on where I can get these done will my GP do this as it is a cosmetic procedure abroad. I do not necessarily want to get into discussing the reason why I need to the Blood tests with my GP so are there any other avenues in the UK to get these tests done other than via private online companies which see to charge around ?300-400 (way too much).

[richie48]

hi

 

my names rich and i live in the uk , i had 2100 crown grafts with Dr Feller in 2007 and i'm going back to have the front tweaked in jan 2012 .

 

i have just been and got my blood results this morning bud .

 

your gp will do them and charge you 75 uk pounds , he/ she will ask you what for , you can tell the truth or lie , if you lie to your gp he/she may catch you out at a later date .

 

or you look online for your local GUM clinic , sexual health drop in clinic , you drop in , no appointment needed , go first thing when they open , when it's quiet , tell them you need these specific blood tests .

 

if they ask why , i told them last time i was off to the US to have knee ligament replacement surgery because the yanks are better at it than the UK .

 

this time i told them i was going back to have key hole surgery on the same knee , they don't have access to you medical files as it's a drop in centre .

 

they will never see you again so really you could tell them anything , just don't do the "i'd rather not say " shit as that will raise suspicion .

 

they don't have any right to ask you any further , it takes seven days to get the results and costs 35 uk pounds in cash .

 

easy ........ just stop panicking bud , i'm a veteran at this and it is sooooo easy .

 

good luck

richie

Edited November 8, 2011 by richie48
the pound sign always comes up as a question mark !!

[JayWalker]

I had the Hep tests done at my docs (free)

And i had the HIV done at the local GUM clinic. (?35 for printout of results)

 

I just told my doc when he asked me why I wanted them doing.

[gillenator]

Honesty is always the best policy. Either way, you will end needing to pay for the tests. It's more of the less costly place that is the issue and your time frames of course.

[waisal]

Really appreciate the replies guys. I think I will go down the honesty route with my GP.

[richie48]

nice one waisal

 

honesty is always the best policy , well done for coming clean hahaha

 

good luck bud

richie

[gillenator]

Really appreciate the replies guys. I think I will go down the honesty route with my GP.

 

Good for you!

[waisal]

So much for the honesty route GP said that they would not offer the blood tests as it is not a clinical indication I did say that I understood that it would be private and would pay but all they suggested was BUPA.

Think I will need to change my GP practice so back to square one I have approached BUPA via the self pay GP services and waiting for them to come back with a quote.

[chrisdav]

I payed 20 pound for mine.

[richie48]

mate stop messing around and just go to your local GUM clinic , thats a sexual health drop in clinic ,type it in google with your town name , discreet , private , mine was 35 pounds , chrisdav payed 20 pounds !

 

you're making this far too hard for yourself , it really is easy , it only took a week and i just told them it was for knee surgery !

 

it's quick , cheap and easy !

 

richie

[waisal]

Success!

 

Went to GUM clinic today had tests done results by letter in a week. Moral of this story go straight to GUM dept as your likely to get messed around by GPs. Lesson learnt!

[richie48]

well done bud !

 

Gum clinic , local , quiet , discreet and cheap with a 7 day turn around !

 

ace

 

richie