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Sudden onset, stomach distress, and inability to eat.
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@blessedwildapplegirl and @cheyne like you two, I am averse to prescription medications, much to my doctors’ chagrin. I often worry that my refusal to take prescribed medications (I only do when desperate, and only for as short a period of time as possible) will get me “fired” by my GP and any specialist she sends me to, and in Canada one cannot afford to lose a doctor since there is a much shorter list of available doctors than there are patients on waiting lists for them. 🤷🏼♀️ So I essentially pick my battles and choose which hill to die on - while I hold my breath when visiting my doctor or specialist, hoping I will not be prescribed anything! lol.
While I have built up a strong threshold to pain on my health journey, for certain procedures I still actually beg for freezing or anaesthesia! lol. Other than that, the only “bad” medications I take on a regular basis are just once a day medications for GERD (because of hiatal hernia), thyroid, psoriasis and overactive bladder. I have fibromyalgia and severe arthritis among other ailments but refuse prescription painkillers - especially any that have to be taken more than once a day. I just thank God I don’t have diabetes or heart disease because that would mean a much bigger list of medications!
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I hear you on doctors handing out prescriptions! May I ask what the symptoms of your hiatal hernia were, and how they diagnosed it? Last night I had such terrible stomach distress, and when I pressed on the very top of my stomach, where I think my esophagus ends, it really hurt. My mom had one of those. Plus, she had colon cancer when she was about 65. She lived through it though.
I’m sorry you have to deal with all that. I’m lucky I have a primary care physician who is understanding and doesn’t get angry with me when I don’t take the things he suggests. But I know I frustrate him. But I’ve had some doctors walk out on me. It’s terrible. I like the way you put it: (although it’s sad, of course.) you have to choose the hill you want to die on. I get it! It shouldn’t be that way, but it is. I suppose there are pluses and minuses to having government supplied healthcare. It sounds good, but I have heard there are long waiting lists. Although to get into my doctor now is about a six month wait. It didn’t used to be that way.
Take care of yourself and thanks for sharing. 💕