I have a new pcp in August and I’m going in with a nice voice but a list of symptoms,photos and past lab results.
This is a true story. My last pcp thought what I was experiencing, how odd it was, I could be suffering from depression. Now, I do suffer anxiety because I have bilateral tinnitus and some days do get extremely loud for me and it can give me anxiety.
I was so sick of listening to him say this to me he said I’d like you to see a psychiatrist. I was all in, to prove his wasted diagnoses, his time and mine.
I said absolutely, your choice too. I get a 90 minute visit, lovely doctor who I felt like I shared my life with and she said I will send your doctor a letter. In my opinion there is absolutely no types of depression I can diagnose you with. You are a 69, well groomed, well spoken woman. I can see the tinnitus as being tuff sometimes but you absolutely don’t suffer depression. Of course she went on and on with other things in her letter.
I made an appointment and met with my doctor and said I have suffered from something. I hope it’s not serious because your diagnosis is depression. I hope you have learned something from our experience. Just maybe not everyone who has odd symptoms suffers depression. My rashes, bumps on my fingers, crazy itchy scalp should be a sign to do something and you did, you sent me to a psychiatrist. You are wrong and I’d be wrong to continue as your patient. I shook his hand, thanked him and walked out. Yes, I did report him to the hospital. Now I’m moving on.