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Post by gwenifer on Mar 22, 2007 9:40:51 GMT 1
Unsympathetic swine, all of them!! Yet again I went to the doctors to get help with my under active thyroid, I am still getting all the symptoms evne after being on a high rate of medication for the past few years. Well, first off I was told I had to lose weight, (great, so I just go on a diet then doc? and get more exercise?) I tried to explain that diets do not work but no, I wasn't sticking to the diet was the problem, not the diet itself!! Then of course I am getting pain in my muscles and joints because I'm getting OLD!!! (I did explain that I'm 54 not 84) Si I am supposed to ignore the pain I'm in 24 / 7 and exercise, wow, if only, I have major trouble getting out of bed some mornings!!! GGGGGGRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!
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Post by duane on Mar 22, 2007 17:49:06 GMT 1
sounds like someone needs a hug..
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Post by hal on Mar 23, 2007 11:37:44 GMT 1
Sounds like someone needs a better doctor instead of a hug duane
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Post by admin on Mar 23, 2007 11:41:21 GMT 1
If you have awkward doctors, write everything down before you go in and practice assertiveness techniques.
It might also be worth seeing if another local doctor will take you on? Not that there's that many good doctors around!
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Post by gwenifer on Mar 23, 2007 18:47:09 GMT 1
It's not the doctor really, its my illness, its regarded as a nuisance more than anything else and doctors can't be bothered to treat you. It is not just Birmingham it is all over the country, I belong to a Hypothyroid support group and my experiences are just the same as theirs. The group suggested I take someone with me when I go to the docs, trouble is everyone is working during the day and its difficult to find anyone, I'd love to find a fellow sufferer who is not registered with my docs practice to come with me!!! I went and got the blood tests done anyway, I have to go back and see what the results are next week, I will make sure I don't see that particular doctor again though, I don't think I could stop myself from slapping her silly!!!! She wouldn't put the tests I asked for on the blood test form, I asked her why and she said that it was not policy!! NOT POLICY!!! The cow, I am suffering here, I don't care about policy!!! She has requested cholesterol, liver function and diabetes tests, I know I'm not diabetic I had a test just before christmas, if I had liver problems they would have shown up before now and as for cholesterol, well I've been taking statins untill I found out about them, they're deadly!!!
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Post by evadarkness on Mar 23, 2007 21:08:04 GMT 1
Personally found doctors in Canada were generally much mor eopen to discussion with their patients. Doctors here often seem a lot more old fashioned where you should be seen and not heard.
Even at the practice I go to (which is farely good) there is one doctor I will not see because we always seem to end up disagreeing. So I just make sure to see the two I feel are more up to date and at least open to alternatives of treatment.
Good luck, sorry you are having such a rough time with something so vital - your health!
Evadarkness
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Post by gwenifer on Mar 24, 2007 19:17:11 GMT 1
Thanks Marie, after 8 years of it I am getting used to the attitudes of doctors, you'd think with the amount of money they are paid they'd actually LISTEN to what their patient is saying!! Have to admit, you get tired of fighting the crap after so long!!!
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Post by theelf on Mar 29, 2007 9:45:38 GMT 1
I sympathise. My old doctor (in the North East) used to tell me to lose weight. I agree I needed to lose weight, but that wasn't going to help with tonsilitis, or flu!!! My current doctor (in Leamington) is fantastic. He's never told me to lose weight, so I feel more inclined to do it. And he actually listens to what's wrong. There is one doctor in the practice who had a prescription written out for me after I'd been there for 30 secs, and he'd written it for penicillin, which I'm allergic to!! Not sure what he was reading on his computer screen
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Post by celticwolf on Apr 7, 2007 12:16:05 GMT 1
I can sooo relate to this.
I was diagnosed with PCOS and had to go for a Laporoskapy ( sorry about the spelling). Yes i am overwight but when i went to see the specialist 6 months before the surgery i was told i had to lose 4 stone - i wanted to say are you having a laugh! I was then told to go and see a dietician which i did who in her wisdom told me to excersize and eat healthily. Hello......!!!!!
Celticwolf
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Post by Butterfly on Apr 7, 2007 14:39:27 GMT 1
doctors can be so dim! one of my daughters has turners syndrome, and it took me 10 years of telling them various symptoms and difficulties she has had before a junior doctor realised what was wrong! Yet when you look at the syptoms of turners syndrome, it is obvious! The down side of their slow diagnosis is thet she has missed out on 10yrs of growth hormone! She is 13, 4ft 6 and won't grow much more!! Yet if she had had the GH from birth she would probably be taller than me!!! (4ft 11).
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Post by gwenifer on Apr 7, 2007 18:30:54 GMT 1
Thing is a GP is not an expert in any particular area but you would think that when I told her that my ankles were so swollen and painful IN THE MORNINGS, that she would at least want to examine them? Well, no, she just said I was over weight and that was causing the problem, really annoying when it was the Endocrinologist at the hospital that pointed out one of the major symptoms of Hypothyroid was............ swollen painfull ankles.... I don't expect my GP to be an expert, I do expect him / her to listen to me and at least examine me not make snap judgements with no information at all. I still haven't been back to get my blood test results, I can't face it, it is so demoralising that no matter which doctor I see at the practice, they all have an excuse for my symptoms, anything but dealing with the problem!! Another problem is that they are paid to dole out tablets for high blood pressure, and tablets for reducing cholesterol, but no-one is interested in me having my life back....................
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Post by gwenifer on May 3, 2007 9:59:26 GMT 1
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Post by gwenifer on Jun 5, 2007 0:52:46 GMT 1
Well I went to see the Endocrinologist at the hospital today and guess what? He was the head honcho, the head of department at the university teaching hospital and ALL his info was at least 10 years out of date! He refused to do the blood test I asked for (to check for antibodies to my thyroid) reluctantly agreed to do a free T3 test and said that the results would be normal (for who?) Flatly refused to discuss putting me on natural thyroxin (even though it contains no maize starch which I am highly intolerant to and has no side effects unlike the chemical variety), then has the cheek to say he 'sympathised with me but it was hard to find anything to do to change things', its bloody easy, treat my underactive thyroid and give me my life back!!!!!
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Post by kajyann on Jun 5, 2007 13:47:44 GMT 1
that is really out of order - so sorry you are having such hassle. I was misdianosed for 5 yrs due to GP's not referring me for tests. When they finally did I was so ill i had to have major surgery that has impaired me permanently. Cant you ask to go to another hospital - in this wonderful age of choice that Tony has given us? hugs to you kaj xxx
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Post by Butterfly on Jun 5, 2007 16:14:48 GMT 1
I spent 10yrs telling my GP that my daughter wasn't quite right, and she was treated like a naughty girl for all that time, only to find out that she had turners syndrome and could of had treatment all that time!!!(Oh and i was classed as a panicking mother!)
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