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Autoimmune disease mistaken for mental disease
Autoimmune Diseases | Last Active: Aug 15, 2017 | Replies (37)Comment receiving replies
Hello @techy, I understand where you are coming from. I have MS, the symptoms started when I was in my twenties. The Duckters told me that I was imagining it, It was all in my head, I just wanted attention. They sent me to a shrink. 25 years later a woman Dr. who migrated from India said it was in my head because that's where the most damage occurs. I kept going from Dr. to Dr. till I got one that listened to me and respected me. One of the Dr. told me "He was the Professional Dr. and I was only the patient who didn't Know anything so I should shut up and listen to him. I live in this body. I know it intimately. Who knows better what is going on more than you in you're body? Be you're own advocate and keep pushing for answers. Best of luck to you and remember that whatever it turns out to be, It may have you're body but it cannot have you if you don't let it. Chin up Always!
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Thank you so much. Its just so tragic when not only your doctors but also your hospitals misdiagnosis and try to cover up. And patients are wasting their money and doctors who are overcharging your insurance for care that's absured. And putting things on your medical records that in correct with mental diagnoses. So then the patient either have to get it changed and maybe have to sue to do so. And the hospitals and doctors get away with this. I know they are not perfect or they know everything but be honest and don't let the patient or family have to deal with the consequense. This week l went last week to get copies of my medical records and still they have meds l am allergic to and l notified them since 2015, what does that say about our healthcare system? And if l didn't get my records l wouldn't be able to tell them for the 15th time and this could cause me my life. So l will be seeing my general practice doctor this week and l will tell him that when his nurses tell me that the clinic and hospital get the same information when they put in the computer, l wonder what will he say????. Thank God l don^t have altemizhers. And in 2014 when they were giving me all these meds tbat l was having a reaction to they wanted to send me to a nursing home because again their mistakes and they didn't know what to do, but again l say l am so blessed to be alive. You are such a great mentor and l hope you see the fustration that we are going through because maybe with proper and honest care some of our problems could have been avoided or even if not we have trust in our healthcare teams. And it shouldn't be about money its should be about helping your patient no matter what, if not you are in the wrong career.
Been there, done that, Lisa. The only thing I can add is that, if not for the internet, many of us would have a very difficult time staying alive in this world. One set of hepatologists in Scottsdale refused to see me concerning my liver because I was not going to live anyway.
why cannot the doctors be realistic and respectful? when there is a mistake try to work it out with the patient and not ridicule or demean by saying "it's all in your mind? where is the caring, the humanity and not the hurting? these are not isolated incidents. WHAT HAPPENED TO; "FIRST DO NO HARM"? SHAME, SHAME SHAME.
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i would like to know was there this high of a percentage of quacksters years ago or: has this become this bad in the last twenty or so years? were they the last in their class or just another group of despicables? when they cannot analyze then do it in a respectable way. do not hurt the patient. shame on them! (and don't think they do not know what they are doing!