Ok, just want everyone to know that i am venting... so i may seem harsh, but I am frustrated cuz most of my life doctors have not listened to me. I am so frustrated now! I went to a walk-in clinic because a gland behind my ear was causing me massive headaches, and it was swollen. I assumed i had an ear infection, and when i walked in there i told the lady at the desk why i was there and followed the regular protocall... no big deal. but the doctor looked in my ears, got me to do the breathing thing... and then said i didn't have an ear infection and that my ear was just full of air, i was just about to ask him a question and he walked out of the office to another patient! I mean, i know what air in my ear feels like, and this was clearly not it! He didn't even bother checking to see if my glands were swollen!!! HOW stupid is that? There is a sign on the front door saying that this doctor is only going to see you for one medical problem per day, but still, the problem was related to my ear! WHY then, did he just send me on my way? I am taking a perscribed antiinflamitory plus tylenol (for another medical problem) but it just happens to help the symptoms of whatever i have) I am not a hypochaundriac, however i am a suck when i am sick... I went looking online about the symptoms i was having, and it could've been a whole bunch of things... as it turns out it wasn't a big thing, but that's not the point... wh yare doctors so stupid? i mean i went in there because i knew that there was something wrong, i mean i am only in that amount of pain when something is wrong... UGH!! and it had nothing to do with the air in my friggen ears!!!!
there may be a shortage of doctors and nurses in canada, but that is no excuse not to do their jobs properly ]:-)
:mad: I have had experiences with stupid doctors too, although not exactly like yours. Most recently, I went to see a doctor because of my constant fatigue, in conjunction with a nasty, painful swelling of the lymphnodes behind my left ear. She (the doctor) said it was probably cat scratch fever. Which it was not. When the fatigue didn't get better, we went to see a DIFFERENT doctor, who had me take a blood test (I passed out and was twitching, my eyes still open, and the nurse freaked out 'cause she thought I was having a siezure! It was very painful and terrifying, and now I have a fear of needles :oops: but it was funny, too. And kinda cool. That's the first time I ever passed out) and it turned out I have an iron deficiency, not cat scratch fever. Although we still don't know what caused my lymphnodes to swell like that, and they have done it twice since, at random.
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The other time was when I was ten, and my doctor missdiagnosed my tonsil absess as Strep Throat. :evil: I nearly died from that absess.
The other time was when I was ten, and my doctor missdiagnosed my tonsil absess as Strep Throat. :evil: I nearly died from that absess.
I don't feel like getting into this topic right now. I've had problems all my life with doctors as well.
I just wanted to say that last year my husband almost died because a doctor misdiagnosed his tonsil abcess as a severe sinus infection. Thing is, she didn't even check his throat. I guess because it didn't hurt. But I think most people, especially doctors, know that ears, nose, and throat are all connected. The other thing is, when he went to the emergency room the next day because he couldn't swallow and had difficulty breathing, the doctors saw the abcess right away. When he was in the hospital that night, I did some research. I guess in many cases those abcesses are diagnosed by ultrasound. But his was so big it couldn't be missed, if the doctor had just bothered to check.
Little rant, but it's only the third time I've heard of someone else with that abcess, and 2 out of 3 were misdiagnosed to life-threatening levels. :cry:
Luai I passed out once too. I was at middle school and before school they had everyone wait in the gym. Well they also thought they could have a basketball game go on in a gym crowded with sitting students. So they ran into me, and from what I was told. My head hit the gym floor, and from my perspective everything went completely black. Then I woke up and everyone was looking down at me and I asked, "Did I die?"
I could go on and on about how stupid and ignorant schools are regarding the simplest concept, but that's another topic.
Frankly I've hit my head seriously twice, one time I slipped on the ice and hit my head, didn't black out. I felt bad afterwards cuz my dad was afraid something happened to me, but I found the slapstick aspect of it amusing afterwards. I also did alot of headbanging during my teen years, going to rock shows. So I guess I should be surprised my brain isn't messed up from all of that, eh?
Maybe I just dented the parts that were filled with too much white matter, to really play a role in my functionality anyways.
Is it a good idea to write down all the problems on a paper and just give it to the doctor? I usually just automatically say "fine thank you doctor and how are you?" when a doctor asks me how I am even if I am in extreme suffering.
I have had the same problems. However, I have realised (guessed?) that the reason why doctors do not take us seriously is because we are very bad at showing non-verbally what we are feeling in side and because we are british we are unable to say verbally in strong terms how we realy feel, i.e. when we say it hurts a bit, we should really say, it feels so bad I want to stab myself in the ear with a knife and unless i get some proper care I am going to stab lots of people......though this could be an NHS thing.
David, I think that may be part of it. I live in the US, and recently our doctors have started using a 'pain chart' where you rate your pain from 0-10 (10 being the worst). It is a dreadful system, and let me ilustrate why it doesn't work with an anecdote involving my little brother:
He was 7. He fell and broke his arm. He was in excruiciating pain (he had to get pins). When he got to the emergency room, he was the person there most in need of quick assistance; but because he considered 10 on the chart to be death, he rated his own pain much lower than he should have; the nurse assumed he was doing OK; and he had to wait 5 HOURS before he even saw a doctor.
I myself am never sure what to rate my pain and although I try to be accurate, I'm sure my inacurate responses have helped with misdiagnoses.
I went to a walk-in clinic because a gland behind my ear was causing me massive headaches, and it was swollen. I assumed i had an ear infection, and when i walked in there i told the lady at the desk why i was there and followed the regular protocall... no big deal. but the doctor looked in my ears, got me to do the breathing thing... and then said i didn't have an ear infection and that my ear was just full of air, i was just about to ask him a question and he walked out of the office to another patient! I mean, i know what air in my ear feels like, and this was clearly not it! He didn't even bother checking to see if my glands were swollen!!! HOW stupid is that?
The exact same thing happened to me! My doctor didn't give me the time of day! I went in for recurring ear infections and node swelling that always accompany eating/drinking, causing me to believe it is an allergic reaction, and my doc wouldn't even listen, wouldn't give me a referral to an allergist, just walked out after saying "I can't appreciate that." I thought my ear was going to explode. I have to clean them out several times a day or else they swell further. What did yours turn out to be?
I clearly have some sort of circulatory condition which I can't identify. When I stand up from any less vertical body orientation (such as from lying down, sitting, or especially squatting) or move my neck or arms in certain ways, the blood rushes from my head and I lose sensation, sometimes falling on the ground and shaking violently. My doctor told me I'm standing up too slowly, and nothing I say to him will convince him otherwise, even though I tell him it happens no matter how slowly I get up.
What makes it worse is that my mother thinks I'm a hypochondriac (and I may be) but she is the opposite: My skin could be turning blue and my head swollen to the size of a beach ball, and she would still refuse to believe I was ill. In fact, for years after my diagnosis of AS, she refused to tell me anything about it for fear that I would begin to act like I had it, despite the fact that I was diagnosed with it so I was clearly already acting like I had it. So even though I've asked to get a second opinion, she refuses to take me to see another doctor.
I've had several severe episodes of this condition arising where I've fallen on the floor and repeatedly banged my head against hard surfaces like walls or floors, and a couple times I was at the top of a flight of stairs. I'm afraid some day I'm going to be seriously injured when this happens. I don't know what to do!
I really wish I knew what to tell you.... but unfortunately I don't know what you should do.
So I'll just say, hope something happens, and it all works out.