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@joannemm30809

After two years of nonstop debilitating and frightening symptoms with no real answers nor real compassion by my doctors or ER doctors etc I give up.

I told my husband whatever these overall body debilitating symptoms are that have progressed over the past 1.8 years that I give up.

My neuro Dr referred me to Mayo in Jacksonville FL YET they have a ONE YEAR WAIT LIST to be seen.

I give up.

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I have been there to. The same treatment and all the others that go with this. The doctors are taking to many patients (Perhaps for the money) so how can they go "IN DEPTH" with your treatment (and mine and others)? Once they have seen you the treatment rarely goes on or they pass it over to another doctor who makes you wait another month or two. And then somehow you are lost in the system and if you wait long enough the pain and or symptoms get worse and you call again and start all over again. THERE IS NO OVERSIGHT. Once they have an appointment you would be lucky to be sent to the next proper doctor. You sort of get lost in "THE SYSTEM". I think the doctors are overwhelmed with the system that does not work for the patient. THERE NEEDS TO BE A COORDINATION SPECIALIST. But then who am I?

Dear Joanne Please do not give up. I know ....it is so hard to push to what we hope is the next step and it is easy to give up. Some how continue to go to other parts of the county, state or the country. Perhaps you will find an area that is not to overwhelmed. Do not wait as time is important. The pandemic and everything else is hastening to an ugly end. Take some Wonder Woman pills and fly. From your caring fellow sufferer.