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I grew up on the child at risk register. When I was 14 I sustained a bilateral condylar fracture of the mandible due to being assaulted by a parent. I am now 29 and have been unable to receive treatment for this non-unified fracture due to a complete inability to receive a diagnosis proving the condition. I am actively considering suicide due to this. My local hospital refuses to perform a CT or MRI as a panoramic dental x-ray failed to show the fracture. I have spoken to over 40 social care and medical care professionals to no avail. I know the imaging technique they used was insufficient for diagnosing such a fracture due to not clearly showing the condyles and showing them superimposed on other structures. During my last hospital visit the maxilla facial surgeon assaulted me by applying copious pressure to my unsupported jaw in a malicious attempt to ‘prove’ it wasn’t broken, this has caused a substantial soft tissue injury. My GP disbelieves me as the hospital is the mechanism he uses to verify the veracity of patient claims. I am an articulate and intelligent individual but am dismissed as essentially being delusional due to having ASD. My local hospital staff are massively incompetent and I don’t understand why. I have no legal recourse of any kind and would now frankly be scared to allow these surgeons to operate on me. I’ve already lost my childhood, teenage years and twenties- I don’t see the point in suffering any further agony and anxiety- my life is already wasted. I have lost 10% of my body weight recently and have ‘eaten’ nothing but evaporated milk for a fortnight. The hospital baselessly refuting my claim of a broken jaw caused my girlfriend and only support structure to leave me for fabricating the whole story. I know beyond doubt my jaw is bilaterally fractured without unification; I feel as though I’m trapped in an incoherent nightmare. The entire situation is intolerable, incomprehensible and torturous. I’m waiting for help that isn’t coming, I have no quality of life, I feel physically vulnerable, scared to leave the house, and left out of life. I don’t want to be here anymore. I know money could help me access private care to treat the primary problem, treat secondary problems that have arisen from a resulting lack of dental care, and help to get me driving so I would have a sense of independence and safety, I know theoretically my situation could be helped, but in reality I wasn’t born with the privilege that makes that possible. How can this be the reality of life in the UK?

Absolutely rubbish. Waited over a year just to say that they sent a letter that they never sent approximately 7 days and because I didn't respond therefore they closed my case and discharged me back to GP. No phone call no answering machine message no email. Utterly disgraceful.

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