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Depressed over the over use of doctors and procedures..approaching 80
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follow up sent me this week to another CARDIOLOGIST for the whooshing sound in the heart area...and an ultrasound which left those sticky buttons all over my chest to take home....I am still weak from all of the first work done....they did call the local drugstore to update the meds and said to keep taking them....when does it all get DONE??????.@margaretob
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I'm not trying to be mean, but I think at our "more advanced" age, it is probably not going to get any better overall. I wonder to myself why am I making/keeping this doctor appointment. I have five maintenance drugs and I'm required to go to the doctor twice a year to get these prescriptions. But the dentist? New partials at 86 years old. I don't think so. The eye doctor - of course I always want to go there. The hearing aid? Expensive. Why go when I might not last much longer. Do I want to tell my GP who approves my maintenance drugs about any new aches and pains? I don't know the answer but I remember what my Uncle at age 94 said about his last doctor appoint: "If I take this pill, that might happen and if I take that pill this might happen. So I decided to quit going." He lived well into his 97th year.