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Considering the Age and the fitness to treat the patient?
Secondary Hyperparathyroidism. Why do most or perhaps all of the doctors do not want to help with the elderly patients? What has changed? Is it not my choice to have the procedures and not be put off by my age as long as my fitness is acceptable? It seems that recently everything is now depending on the age and not considering the fitness of the patient. To me this is quite important and it is as though my rights are being taken away? Is this the new America? Respectfully, Barbara.
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I agree. It seems as though all the doctors want to do is put you on medicine. I'll be going to a rheumatologist shortly because my PCP was tired of me resisting prolia. So send me to the specialist. Before I even go I'll bet she's going to push medication which is ok if that's the last resort. These days it's the first resort. I have high parathyroid numbers and have been climbing the last 3 years. Why hasn't that been checked out? Sometimes I think I do better research than the doctors!
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4 ReactionsWhy can we not have another way to speak up for ourselves? Have the doctors now become our new god? Where else can we go to for help to stay alive; and not a dictatorship. God help us please?
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2 ReactionsI and others in our position have done the same. We certainly need oversight. but yes I agree.
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1 ReactionThey make us wait so very long till it cannot be done. Do they think we are so clueless or is this the way they are told to HANDLE we the people?
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1 ReactionI have not looked this up so may I ask a few questions please? Instead of asking questions perhaps your doctor would write them down for you. (Even though I could believe that there are other ways of handling this. What are reasons of not changing the medical ways and ae there other medical ways? Or is she waiting for this to come to a head?
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1 ReactionI agree with you. There are great places like Norman Parathyroid and Moffitt but they seem to be doing the same.. they are probably getting their orders from the same people. (Must be careful). But they are there to try. Please ignore my ignorance as it all must be my fault. BUT TRY, TRY, TRY. LOVE
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1 ReactionI guess getting a second opinion is the first place to start and then to ask for a procedure to be done (ultrasound, mri, or even surgery). Kind of a shame we have to do all that and not fully trust our doctors but I wasn't told different things that obviously affected my bone health and now guess who gets to pay the price. Me! Maybe the doctors are tired of how insurance and stuff works I don't know. But I can think of 3 doctors who failed to give me all the information I needed. This was way before the internet and it wasn't so easy to find things out. And I made the mistake of fully trusting them. I don't think they were malicious but they were dang sure negligent
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1 ReactionI am sure that others besides myself has thought the same as we experienced what you did. I am sure that many, many others have been watching this happen for a very long time. When we realize certain things we become frightened and learn to keep our mouths shut. And changing to other doctors does not help at all. Take care .
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1 ReactionWow. Parathyroid is so important for bone health. I don't think PCPs should be treating osteoporosis. There is a good chance that the parathyroid is causing osteoporosis. After parathyroid treatment (often surgery) you'll probably want an osteo drug.
Cheers you resisted Prolia.
It is the old America, too. Sometimes it helps to have a internal medicine md instead of a pcp. Sometimes it's worse. If you sift through enough of them you'll find gold.