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ginger_kitty

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Oct 02, 2009 11:37

I would hereby like to ask the entire medical world to kindly go fuck itself.

No thanks whatsoever,
An entirely frustrated and altogether dissatisfied patient

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shadowchaser October 2 2009, 19:32:46 UTC

SERIOUSLY? What a fucking jackass! And this is YOU, and-
Sometimes I think the whole world should automatically be able to see the kind of person you are, and this isn't it. *cuddle* Hope you can find a new doctor that doesn't suck. Cripes, I've been to the ER for my migraines a million times, and they were the only source of my codeine for a long while, but I never got THAT.

ginger_kitty October 2 2009, 19:53:45 UTC

This is, of course, after he followed Dr Goode's route of suggesting that I'm intentionally not eating. ("I know there's this pressure to look thin in order to be pretty, but...")
And gave me a 30 minute lecture on how if I just feel better about myself, I won't be sick anymore. Completely ignoring when I interjected that I'm one of the least depressed people you could meet.

shadowchaser October 2 2009, 22:21:21 UTC

*snort* Complete morons. That's like my mom telling me I won't have migraines if I clean the house. Yes, really.

Plus, what depressed person cheers up other depressed people by threatening to share Mana's sex life? >_>

ginger_kitty October 3 2009, 02:16:28 UTC

I know that it's not normal for a girl my age to be this sick, this often. And I don't care if he asks me if I was unprepared for the test-- if he stops at once. Asking multiple times is insulting.
Just like I don't care if he wants to suggest that I try gaining some weight, if it's done without accusations. But immediately assuming that I don't eat because I'm worried about my appearance? And ignoring when I explain that I eat like a horse and have trouble keeping weight on? It's just rude.

The man needs to grow some tact.

Dad printed out a list of local doctors who are in network. Apparently, he's been looking for an extra excuse to change doctors, too.

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amanikitty October 3 2009, 00:49:19 UTC

whatWHAT

ginger_kitty October 3 2009, 02:09:31 UTC

Awesome, isn't it?
The really funny part is that I've been seeing him for 9 years (my entire family has been), and he only started being this much of an asshole over the past year. It floors me how he could know me for THAT long, and think this low of me.

amanikitty October 3 2009, 02:48:26 UTC

I don't... fucking understand D:
Either he's mad because he wants you or
He hates his lifeee

ginger_kitty October 3 2009, 03:08:36 UTC

I think he's frustrated with the fact that I was always healthy, and all of the sudden, my health has gone to SHIT, and he can't find what's wrong with me. So now, to keep his ego, he refuses to think that my problem actually has a real physical cause. It must be my fault. I'm A) depressed/crazy, B) an addict, or C) a hypocondriac.

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lilac_ambience October 3 2009, 07:34:00 UTC

That guy sounds like an asshole, you're definitely doing the right thing.

I'm sure you've looked into this already, but I know when I had similar symptoms to yours (at 13 years old) I was suffering from a severely underactive thryoid, which doctors were unable to diagnose and basically did the same thing to me as they did to you ("it's all in your mind/you're lying to get out of school/you're trying to lose weight blahblah")

Even if you don't have that, it wouldn't do any harm to eat foods rich in iodine (fish, nori) and take a supplement of kelp tablets. Also selenium and zinc (2 brazil nuts a day will give you adequate selenium intake). It may be worth a try?

lilac_ambience October 3 2009, 07:37:36 UTC

Er, thyroid*.

lilac_ambience October 3 2009, 08:04:41 UTC

P.S. Underactive thyroid includes most of the symptoms that you seem to have, I think - chronic fatigue/weakness, fainting etc. It can also manifest itself in irregular heart function, muscle and joint pain etc, feeling cold all the time, and constipation ( ... )

ginger_kitty October 4 2009, 03:48:12 UTC

I visited an endocrinologist to look into my hormone levels, particularly for any trouble with my thyroid. I wasn't tested on that machine, but Dr S was incredibly thorough, and my thyroid has come out to be perfectly normal. I do, however, have a Vitamin D deficiency that she is treating me for. (I've been on 50,000 units twice weekly for the past three weeks, and I am now supposed to start taking 1000 units daily) The vitamin D isn't an underlying cause, but the deficiency does make the fatigue worse. Since starting on it, I can function just a little more normally. Still nowhere near healthy, though ( ... )

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