David Wynick
This article is a hard and emotional one to write, because when I think about it, a lot of the issues I face today with not getting the right treatment or diagnosis stems from the ten minute appointment I had with David Wynick.
Last year after several ambulance attendances where not only myself, but my nebiours had called 999 due to me screaming the house down in pain, not able to get out of bed and having general mobility issues, I was referred to the Central Health Clinic. Which is a pain clinic. I had already been to Southmead pain clinic previously, where the first clinical berated me about how I was able to afford my medical cannabis whilst on universal income. The second clinician then didn’t even attend the appointment and left me attending it without any notice, to which I was told it was cancelled on arrival and to book another one, to which I told them exactly where to stick it.
After trying to cooperate with my GP practice at the time in order to be able to keep my pain medication which was helping me to have some quality of life, I agreed to see David at his clinic at the Central Health Clinic. When I arrived, I was asked to fill out a pain chart which I happily did. I noted on the pain chart where exactly I get pain, which in all fairness is quite a few places, but only places where I have muscle bands contracting and pulling on other parts of my body. So much so that I get cracking throughout my body and muscles relating to the myofacial pain syndrome I had previously been diagnosed with by an actual rheumatologist and aligns with that condition. To my knowledge, I was just attending his clinic to get a better understanding of how to manage my condition alongside the medication I was taking. However to my dismay, the first thing he questioned me about was abuse that had taken place earlier on in my life. I can’t be for sure, but I believe this may be down to something placed on my record after my sexual abuse case started with the police from my childhood. I had agreed for this to be placed on my records so that I could get some further understanding from it, not have it weaponized against me which is what he further went on to do.
In his appointment, which lasted no more than 10-15 minutes without any questioning or even a physical examination, he straight up told me I had fibromyalgia solely based on the fact that I had a sexual abuse incident from a young age and had pain in various places. (Which seems pretty prejudice and hardly the way to diagnose someone if you ask me.) He didn’t ask what type of pain I was in or how it effected me and I argued that the pain I deal with is all myofacial and in my opinion either stems from myofacial pain syndrome which I’ve already been diagnosed with, or possibly a connective tissue disorder. However, he was having none of it and just said I should continue taking morphine and my medical cannabis and should attend a class on pain management.
After having this recorded on my record that I was falsely in nerve pain, I’ve received basically no help at all from the NHS and not only that, I had my only pain medication removed by Robin Chisman and Liz Grimshaw from Greenway Community Practice without any safety taper, alternative or support. Even people who have fibromyalgia which I don’t for one second believe I have, get given the right to pain medication to at least make life tolerable. But the GP’s at Greenway Community Centre carelessly took me off morphine, pretty much one of the strongest pain killers the NHS prescribes for pain.
David Wynick’s refusal to listen or take me seriously lead me to not be able to get the proper healthcare I need and I’ve been left to rot at home without any help from the NHS and having to self source my own medications to be able to keep my head above water. Before my morphine was revoked, I had never had an overdose, never overused what I was prescribed and in fact I used half of what I was prescribed.
I would never advise anyone to take this professor seriously or visit him as a patient as his sincere lack of care has lead me to have one of the worst years of my life by being misdiagnosed by someone who couldn’t or wouldn’t even take the time to do a physical exam. I sent David a message to his University of Bristol email address to have a civil conversation about all the things I’ve pointed out above and how it’s affected me, but I’ve had no email back. So I will continue to spread the word online about how this “professor” is ruining peoples lifes by giving inconclusive diagnosis’s, not listening to patients on how their ailments are effecting them and what a fraud this “professor” actually is.
