Who's the crazy one?

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  • Krissy366
    Krissy366 Posts: 458 Member
    If you are under the care of a physician, do what he says - period!
    And if you need another opinion, seek out another Dr - don't troll MFP for somebody to agree with you.
    Sounds like you just want to eat more.
    Join the club.
    Either take your doctor's advice, or fire him and seek medical services elsewhere.
    Good Luck:flowerforyou:

    ^^^^THAT! Doctors are jerks for this very reason. We would rather listen to people who tell us what we want to hear.
    Right, and we wonder why doctors don't tell people the frank truth any longer. We're such a nation of namby-pamby's.
    Boo Hoo, your bedside manor was harsh....
    Here is what my doctor said...
    "Bobby, you're FAT! F.A.T -- FAT stands for FATAL, AWFUL, TERRIBLE! And you are FAT! If you can lose 50 lbs, you won't need any of these medications or that CPap".
    Gulp
    Instead of firing my doctor, I heeded his advice, and I take no medication and ditched the CPap.

    But there's a difference between a doctor qualified in the specific subject matter being frank with a patient, and a doctor that took a few classes 10 (or 15 or 20) years ago that covered the topic and hasn't looked at a book about it since, giving a patient advice based on guesswork. The number of people that seem to be under the impression that every doctor is an all-knowing being is just astounding to me.

    After I went to her about a 4 day headache, my GP told me that it was "just a migraine" and gave me some drugs. Because I'd been prone to migraines in the past she didn't bother to listen to the actual symptoms, but merely diagnosed me and gave me drugs, and when those didn't work a couple days later she gave me different drugs. Well, by day 11 when I was still in so much pain I was spending most days practically in tears I insisted on an MRI (and made them book me one, when they felt I should just walk into the ER and subsequently pay a $100 co-pay). Day 12 I insisted on seeing a neurologist to review and discuss those tests. Guess what? I didn't have a migraine. Luckily it wasn't anything life threatening, and a doctor who actually specialized in the field was able to appropriately diagnose me and effectively treat me with the correct medicine. The majority of general practitioners are great at what they do. But they are there to provide basic medical advice and treatment and to triage other issues to the appropriate specialists. But they are often pill happy and uninformed on a great number of things.

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