Posted by Racer on November 27, 2006, at 0:54:56
In reply to Re: Your physicians? Racer and Adrift, posted by ElaineM on November 26, 2006, at 20:42:06
> The thing that has really made me distrust all physicians is that the guy I was seeing up until September (whenever I couldn't get into the school clinic) used to say everything I came to him with was only anxiety (ever since I got the ED). The worst was last Dec I went to him really wheezing, complaining I was short of breath and found it really hard to inhale. He prescribed a heavy dose of Ativan daily. I just kept getting worse and ended up at the hospital two weeks later on Boxing Day coughing up blood and barely able to breathe between hacking-attacks. The doc prescribed heavy antibiotics for a bad case of bronchitus. That was the worst but also this summer, he blaimed my mouth and neck pain on anxiety [i forget, but some anxiety disorder that makes you think you're choking when you swallow], and I actually had severely absessed root canals, one that had spread down into my jaw bone. He was so dismissive and rude and it made me feel like a pathetic jerk. He's prescribed so much Ativan to me, even though he's known I already have it at home if I ever need it, that I could fan out the prescription papers like a hand of cards.
I've got stories like that, too. Like the doctor who gave me tetracycline for a urinary tract infection. And then, two weeks later when I came back again, gave me a lecture about peeing after sex to go with my prescription for tetracycline. And two weeks after that, gave me a much sterner lecture...
After my kidneys started shutting down, and I was admitted to the hospital through the ER, they finally did sensitivity testing, and found that the bacteria was multiple-resistant. And I was allergic to two of the three antibiotics that would work...
And yes, I did feel as though I was a hypochondriac, in the doctor's eyes.
Or, the period when I got strep throat every two months for nearly four years... I found out later, my tonsils should have come out after the third bout, would have saved me several years of misery. (Although, at the time, I didn't mind so much because I lost weight...)
Or the pdoc who told me that nortiptyline didn't have anything to do with my weight gain, I just ate too much...
Or the one who told me that my inability to have an orgasm was not related to Paxil, since sexual problems only applied to men...
Or the pdoc I was seeing when this latest episode of AN started, who ignored me when I told him I was worried that it was starting up again, and apparently missed the fact that I lost one third of my starting weight...
Or the one who told me that the discomfort I felt when I tried to eat more was purely psychological... (uh... No?)
There are some lousy doctors out there. I think we should write a book of all the idiotic things we've heard from doctors. What do you say?
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