pleasantly suprised

[matt]

new doctor yesterday. nice bloke seems to have seen me as a challenge not a nightmare neww patient. i'd dread the likes of me coming in the door.

but he took it all in his stride and was plain spoken which i prefer to the kiddy speak they sometimes use.

so apart from the stress of trying to explain 7 years of problems in 1/2 hour all went well. time will tell. he even said that he'd have to watch out so that once all the mental probs are dealt with they don't discount any real potential medical conditions like the intolerance. so yeah he thinks it's all in my mind but he's keeping an open mind.......time for that nice jacket that does up at the back:lol2:

[zoefruitcake]

That's good. Very positive

[cnc]

Good luck, hope they help you. At least he's been prepared to listen to you.

[Copper]

At least he listened. Now you just have to get past your mental block to many things. This might be the year for getting your life back.

[matt]

sounds like fools and horses.... this time next year we'll be millionaires!

yeah, just need to find a big enough hammer to reset my head:o

[rebecca c]

it might well be one step forward, two steps back.... but its those forward steps that count. You obviously handled the consultation well, wish I had handled my time with the chest doctor as well but I dont actually feel it would have made much difference. Keep going Matt I'm sure you will be able to make improvements.

[matt]

get another referral to a diff chest doctor if you think it'll help. health is something you shouldn't ignore. it can dominate your entire life and ruin it. i should know. if there's anything to be done then do it. only put up wit hstuff that you have no way to change. seriously think about another chest doctor.:)

whether he'll be as friendly when he actually gets my notes and sees how bad i really am.......i'm fully aware of my problems and 95% of me thinks i'm nuts but it's the 5% that is in control and isn't ignorable. heck i'm nuts and i know it. atleast i've always got harvey my 6' furry friend to keep me company. now how many of you will know what that is? time to show your age!:lol2:

[Pam]

Now I'm older than you Matt and I don't know who/what Harvey is. You'll have to give us a clue.

[cnc]

Pam, I believe I know, and I'm fairly young... So maybe I'm wrong, or just had a mis spent youth, we'll have to wait and see
Matt, Doctors should want the challenge, they're here to help, therefore thats what they should do (oh the joys of living on another planet!!)

[rebecca c]

I shall go back to my GP on Monday, I think I could have handled appointment better, but that is so often the case. Felt like he had made up his mind all the additional stuff I started to bring up he dismissed so I gave up. Feels like it is deteriorating rapidly after the improvements of the steroids so I will just keep going back. Going on holiday in 2 weeks to an island in Scotland with no doctors so want more help by then, thinking about going into casualty to try to get more help. Other worry is he told me to look up the medicine and one of the things I have symptoms of it is dangerous to take the tablets so if I take them now I suspect I definitely wont be going on holiday, funny way to prove a point to your doctor anyway. Also thinking maybe I could write to him??:(


Harvey - big white invisible rabbit, missed that film but have heard other people talk about it.

[cnc]

I'm giving up on doctors!!Have just been speaking casually to one, and have been told that the information my Doctor provided me with is rubbish :unsure: So for now I think I'm just going to stay on the medication I'm on, visiting the doctor only to get some more of the same medication and then speak to another GP who apparently is quite open minded when I've finished my exams. Why is it so hard to find someone who wants to help??(and my problems aren't that numerous!)

[Pam]

Maybe I'm too old then!!!

[cnc]

I wouldn't think so, its a 1950 movie, so I'm far too young to have seen it first time round, but I saw it on telly a few years ago, can't remember much about it, although I remember the name and the rabbit was 6' 3.5" tall to be precise!(Found that on a website, was just checking whether I had the same Harvey as Matt meant).
Was brought back to light fairly recently with people saying there was connotations of Harvey in Donnie Darko.

[matt]

yeah harvey the six foot rabbit that only the lead character can see.....forget the name of the film.

brings to mind old war stories from the police of in the old days officers dressing up and going into cells to scare the prisoners into confessing (yeah ok not good practise but very funny) then the prisoner going into court and complaining that he only confessed due to being scared by a large rabbit or something similar! ofcourse the judge's just thought the defendant was nuts......aahh the good old days.

every doctor isgoing to have their own oppinion about everything. doesn't make it easier for us. they often resort to giving out tablets just to get you out the door. and yes they'll give you tablets that might react badly with a condition that you think you've got. the end result being if you don't react then then can use it as evidence to you that you're imagining it.....if you do react? they might just say sorry, but more likely they'll just take it as evidence that you suffer from psychosomatic symptoms!!! no win situ for us.

[Pam]

My doctor avoids giving out tablets, his answers are usually "its a virus, antibiotics won't help" or "change your diet/the times you eat/take more exercise". I'll see what he says to my latest problems - dry skin with patches of eczema/psoriasis, insomnia, mood swings - I don't know if it is hormonal or depression but either way it is driving me round the bend. I must try to make an appointment this week.

[cnc]

My doctor at home thought it was my fault I'd had two chest infections and an ear infection in the space of about 2 or 3 months, and asked what did I want him to do about it when I went to visit him the third time?!? Think the answer was pretty obvious!!
He'd given me antibiotics the first time (even though he said he couldn't hear much on my chest), and then gave me antibiotics again for my ear, and then was reluctant to give them for another chest infection. I couldn't believe it, its not as if I'd made the symptoms up, is quite hard to fake an infection.
No wonder I don't like doctors!

[rebecca c]

I know it sounds awful but my dog gets considerably better treatment for her problems than I do for mine. I'm pretty sure if she gets what I've got (in a dog form) the vets will find it in half the time and treat her with more respect in the meantime.

its not because its private either because a friend of mine found the private route even worse. I think its because emotions and feelings are involved on both sides, including all the presumptions about you the doctor makes.

i dont think I shall start listing the problems i've had with doctors, needless to say i find it hard to trust them but have no choice but to keep going back.

the exercise one was a good one, I was getting up at 6.30 then run round after the kids, walk dog, garden house work childminding all the usual finishing all at about 8-9pm so the doctor thought i would like to try jogging. I thought s.. that so went on the exercise bike (and this was at the weekend) then had a migraine (a problem I thought I'd got rid of). My accupuncturist just rolled her eyes when I told her of the exercise advice.:rolleyes:

good luck trying to sort it out Pam.

[cnc]

My doctor told me to do less exercise!!Think that was to avoid dealing with the actual issue. We need to find someone who has a decent doctor and all move down there, and register with the same doctor, then people might actually get some help!!

Good luck to everyone trying to get problems sorted!

[Silver]

Then the poor doctor'll be off with stress/nervous breakdown and no-one'll have a good doctor ;)

[cnc]

Nah it'd be fine!!we could persuade his other patients to leave and then he'd only have the few of us to deal with :P
I may actually be getting to speak to a doctor about my problems, not my own doctor, but someone that'll listen, it could be quite exciting, but I'll need to wait about a month before I can get chance to talk to them :unsure:

[matt]

did i say what my dietician told me??? just in case i didn't....her considered opinion after years of training and looking indepth at my problem? "eat more"

now why didn't i think of that!

[Pam]

Have they ever tried you on an appetite improver? You can get some sort of formula for babies that makes them want to eat more (only available on prescription I think). I don't know what it is called and I'm not sure if it is milk/wheat etc free but it is supposed to work and make children hungrier. It might be worth asking about next time you go.

[matt]

i'll bear it in mind, most stuff they discount cause it's got wheat or milk in. and because they think i'm nuts ofcourse! well to be fair they are not that far from the truth!

hasn't it been busy on the forums for the last few days. hurrah 63 new posts this morning. albeit 30 of them were you lot arguing about who was best on the games!!!! :lol2:

[cnc]

At least we kept the discussion in the appropriate place :P
There's no harm in asking about the appetite improvers when you go, the worst that'll happen is they'll say no!

[Silver]

I was a bit concerned near the beginning, I thought we might on off onto family history ;)

Is it milk in general you have a problem with or just lactose, matt? I think they do milkshakes which are lactose free to help with that sort of thing, but they have milk protein in (I think - been a long time since I've had them)

[matt]

i think it might just be lactose i've a problem with but i exclude the lot. tend to get indegestion and a mouth full of ulcers if i eat dairy. not pleasant. i have three supplimentary drinks a day one with each meal. 250 cals each. good job i've a sweet tooth:drool: just imagine liquid sugar. who needs pudding? i get mine on prescription!!!:bleh:

[Copper]

I was a bit concerned near the beginning, I thought we might on off onto family history ;)


I am pretty sure that I put that comment about my family history searching in an appropriate thread - what are you doing today? perhaps. I try not to become a bore about it.

[rebecca c]

It was me too Copper, I asked how you were getting on. I dont think its boring.

[matt]

no worries copper keep us up to date with how it's going.

forum rules....no slagging of anyone else's hobby/habit/time wasting activity

i mainly suggest that as i'm fully aware that without it i'd have very little to say each day!!:lol2:

i'm sure nothing was meant. this has to be the friendliest site i've ever been to. completely barking mad but friendlyB)

[cnc]

I'd just like to say that the previous comment before the one quoted, was in defence of Matt 'complaining' that there were a lot of posts about the arcade, nothing more.
I'm always interested in other peoples news, because my life is fairly dull as some of you may already have noticed :D

[matt]

dont mind anything i posted, no attack or beration intended to anyone. as i said it was more a defense of my normal rambling off topic inane comments. :lol2:

it's great every morning having loads of things to read on the forum and hearing about stuff. almost like having a social life for me!!!:)