When you know you're sick but your doctors think you're a hypochondriac

[tigersmoosh]

Not me. The more I move, the worse it gets. I was told to get some Voltaren cream gel. I just started using it today. Not cheap either.

newsflash the for-profit medical industry wants you sick for life and on drugs and doctor visits for life and having to buy medical insurance to cover all that for life
they are fiscally obligated to produce and maintain disease to profit their shareholders
the professional scientists they employ constantly recommend to limit meat consumption and eat plenty of nuts seeds grains legumes fruits and veggies
they have been at this for a long time. there is now a disease epidemic.
the professional doctors are subjected to 6 years of mind-numbing pharma-sponsored indoctrination before licensure to weed out the good healers
heavy grain eaters have a pot belly and mental problems. dedicated vegetarians are weak, smell bad and have sex problems
all of that sells a lot of strange substances concocted in labs
I've never met a professional doctor I would describe as healthy and robust

 

[Wrath of Foamy]

I had a bloodclot in my left leg last April and I've found that I'm the only one who really seems to be vigilant about it.

I usually don't go to the GP for years at a time, but ever since the bloodclot, I've had weird sensations in my left leg.

I went to the Isle of Wight in May last year and got my leg checked, as it was swelling quite heavily around the foot and ankle. I also had complications regarding dust being kicked around my new flat due to nearby construction, and the fact that the pollen counts was really high this summer, so I went to the GP, got the leg checked, got an ECG etc.

One of the GPs seemed to get irritated at me, asking me "what exactly am I looking at?" when my foot was swollen and newly discoloured. I have freckles on the top of my foot now and my left leg is redder than the right. I made a few jokes about my weight, she played it literally and I apologized and said that I always joke when I'm stressed. She cooled down after that.

If I can't breathe properly and I have a condition that can flare up again years down the line and potentially kill me, then I'm going to the GP, regardless of if people think I'm being overzealous or not.

 

[Jesus X]

I was actually going to sue a hospital for malpractice because I went to them and they didn't find a bunch of problems another hospital found. The first hospital didn't even order a bunch of tests I needed they gave like a half assed physical. The second hospital gave me all the medicines and supplements I needed drastically improving my health and maybe even saving my life over the decade.

 

[PeterGriffin]

oxalate poisoning explains your dumb rheumatologists opinion. like all modern doctors he is retarded and trained to prescribe drugs.

avoid every food on this list https://www.nutritionadvance.com/high-oxalate-foods/

Okay, so what's your story? I mean, if doctor's are retarded, and their educational background isn't enough, what do you do? For real.

newsflash the for-profit medical industry wants you sick for life and on drugs and doctor visits for life and having to buy medical insurance to cover all that for life
they are fiscally obligated to produce and maintain disease to profit their shareholders
the professional scientists they employ constantly recommend to limit meat consumption and eat plenty of nuts seeds grains legumes fruits and veggies
they have been at this for a long time. there is now a disease epidemic.
the professional doctors are subjected to 6 years of mind-numbing pharma-sponsored indoctrination before licensure to weed out the good healers
heavy grain eaters have a pot belly and mental problems. dedicated vegetarians are weak, smell bad and have sex problems
all of that sells a lot of strange substances concocted in labs
I've never met a professional doctor I would describe as healthy and robust

What makes you more qualified to speak on subjects of medicine than doctors?

 

[Beechwood]

Sounds like you have GOK. (God Only Knows)

Good luck with figuring out what is going wrong. I can sympathize as I have a stomach condition that isn't well understood by most in the health field or outside of it. The health care system is disappointing.

I don't know this, but I'm going to guess that at this point if you hope to get better you will need to try diet change ideas. Maybe something you are eating is causing your health issues. Common trigger foods are wheat/grains, dairy products, nightshade products (tobacco, potatoes, red peppers, tomatoes).

I know for me that eating pork will causing my skin and gums to become inflamed, easily bleed, and painful to the touch. Doctors that see this often blame me for some various different reasons for why this issues happens. For what ever reason they tend to dismiss the food allergy angle.

 

[cincymma79]

It sucks. You talk to multiple doctors and specialists over the years and explain your symptoms, they send you here and there, do all the tests available under the sun but can't figure it out. And it gets to the point where they think you're just making it up. I stopped talking to people about it becaus they think the same. My boss thinks it's time to give up and just deal with it.

Since my early 20s, my fingers hurt when I click on a mouse. Over 20 years, its gotten worse and now its every single joint in my body. If I even bump my fingers, knees, elbow, anything, it swells up and I'll be in pain for months til it gets better. My back hurts when I sleep, I have to wake up every couple of hours to sit on a recliner, then go back to sleep, then go back to recliner again. I'm always sleepy and dizzy. My vision changed 20 years ago and been to a dozen eye specialists, neurologists, opthalmologists, neuro opthalmologists.

Done a million blood tests, Xrays, MRIs, CT scans, Ultrasounds..

I get leads and they turn up nowhere. Now the most recent one is a rheumatologist who thinks my uric acid is too high and I have gout. I've been taking allopurinol for 6 weeks and dont feel a difference.

 

[Spounman]

It sucks. You talk to multiple doctors and specialists over the years and explain your symptoms, they send you here and there, do all the tests available under the sun but can't figure it out. And it gets to the point where they think you're just making it up. I stopped talking to people about it becaus they think the same. My boss thinks it's time to give up and just deal with it.

Since my early 20s, my fingers hurt when I click on a mouse. Over 20 years, its gotten worse and now its every single joint in my body. If I even bump my fingers, knees, elbow, anything, it swells up and I'll be in pain for months til it gets better. My back hurts when I sleep, I have to wake up every couple of hours to sit on a recliner, then go back to sleep, then go back to recliner again. I'm always sleepy and dizzy. My vision changed 20 years ago and been to a dozen eye specialists, neurologists, opthalmologists, neuro opthalmologists.

Done a million blood tests, Xrays, MRIs, CT scans, Ultrasounds..

I get leads and they turn up nowhere. Now the most recent one is a rheumatologist who thinks my uric acid is too high and I have gout. I've been taking allopurinol for 6 weeks and dont feel a difference.

Pinched nerve in the neck maybe?

 

[Natural Order]

I'll go out on a limb and say that there are enough resources at your finger tips online to begin self diagnosis of a lot of things. That isn't to say you shouldn't certainly follow up your findings with a visit to your MD to discuss. Doctors have tremendous egos so the idea of intelligent patients doing their own research and coming to certain conclusions may immediately offend them. Tread lightly for sure. But of course, they are trained professionals so I'd say always err with them. End of the day, life is all about personal decisions and if your gut says something differently, that's up to you!

Me and a doctor once navigated the process of administering a steroid shot into the sheath of a tendon for my middle finger on one hand. Was inflated and locked/catching. I believe they call it "trigger finger". He was a recent acquisition for the country and hospital for some background reference. He'd never done one before so we Googled it right then and there. He asked if I thought the angle he was inserting in seemed close to the picture on screen.

Good job, team.

 

[F1980]

Just got back from my rheumatologist

basically I cant run or jog anymore

she upped my dose of allopurinol to 200mg

She told me it comes with age and I told her I've had these issues since my early 20s.

 

[AGGAMEMNON66]

It’s super AIDS. You have super AIDS

 

[Phlog]

Are you flexible? Sounds like EDS like my wife has or an autoimmune condition. Gout can be caused by calcium.

Use AI brah, it's real good at illnesses now and I use it for all my shit.

 

[mozfonky]

Okay, so what's your story? I mean, if doctor's are retarded, and their educational background isn't enough, what do you do? For real.



What makes you more qualified to speak on subjects of medicine than doctors?

i would question anything doctors say, but then I'm native american, we have a history.

 

[mozfonky]

Are you flexible? Sounds like EDS like my wife has or an autoimmune condition. Gout can be caused by calcium.

Use AI brah, it's real good at illnesses now and I use it for all my shit.

erectile dysfunction sydrome? oh boy, that must be tough.

 

[mozfonky]

I had a bloodclot in my left leg last April and I've found that I'm the only one who really seems to be vigilant about it.

I usually don't go to the GP for years at a time, but ever since the bloodclot, I've had weird sensations in my left leg.

I went to the Isle of Wight in May last year and got my leg checked, as it was swelling quite heavily around the foot and ankle. I also had complications regarding dust being kicked around my new flat due to nearby construction, and the fact that the pollen counts was really high this summer, so I went to the GP, got the leg checked, got an ECG etc.

One of the GPs seemed to get irritated at me, asking me "what exactly am I looking at?" when my foot was swollen and newly discoloured. I have freckles on the top of my foot now and my left leg is redder than the right. I made a few jokes about my weight, she played it literally and I apologized and said that I always joke when I'm stressed. She cooled down after that.

If I can't breathe properly and I have a condition that can flare up again years down the line and potentially kill me, then I'm going to the GP, regardless of if people think I'm being overzealous or not.

good for you, i'm not interested in spending 5000 for a chest pain that isn't dangerous. In the US they love those kinds of things.

 

[mozfonky]

Just got back from my rheumatologist

basically I cant run or jog anymore

she upped my dose of allopurinol to 200mg

She told me it comes with age and I told her I've had these issues since my early 20s.

there ya go, they don't know everything. Personally, I just factor what I'm told and make my own decision. You can't take someone who sees 500 people a week and spends 20 minutes with you as the voice of god.

 

[mozfonky]

I'll go out on a limb and say that there are enough resources at your finger tips online to begin self diagnosis of a lot of things. That isn't to say you shouldn't certainly follow up your findings with a visit to your MD to discuss. Doctors have tremendous egos so the idea of intelligent patients doing their own research and coming to certain conclusions may immediately offend them. Tread lightly for sure. But of course, they are trained professionals so I'd say always err with them. End of the day, life is all about personal decisions and if your gut says something differently, that's up to you!

Me and a doctor once navigated the process of administering a steroid shot into the sheath of a tendon for my middle finger on one hand. Was inflated and locked/catching. I believe they call it "trigger finger". He was a recent acquisition for the country and hospital for some background reference. He'd never done one before so we Googled it right then and there. He asked if I thought the angle he was inserting in seemed close to the picture on screen.

Good job, team.

you're right about the egos. but that goes both ways, patients are stubborn and don't listen even when they need to. My bro is 400 plus pounds and recently been on two hospital stints, they tell him the same thing I've been telling him and it doesn't fucking get through to him and he gets his feelings hurt easily too.

I watched the charlie sheen docu on netflix last night and thought about him a lot when they talked about how fucking impossible it was to get through to that motherfucker. Dad and he almost ended up in a fistfight, that's what I could relate too. I want to beat my bros stupid head in but that's illegal.

In Charlie's case, his dealer tricked him into saving his life, kept reducing the crack in the crack until he didn't want it anymore.

 

[tigersmoosh]

Just got back from my rheumatologist

basically I cant run or jog anymore

she upped my dose of allopurinol to 200mg

She told me it comes with age and I told her I've had these issues since my early 20s.

lol. of course she did.

Okay, so what's your story? I mean, if doctor's are retarded, and their educational background isn't enough, what do you do? For real.



What makes you more qualified to speak on subjects of medicine than doctors?

I'm healthy and got that way mainly by fixing my diet. body was falling apart with joint pain, skin problems, heart palpitations, hypothyroid and all kinds of weird random shit in my late twenties. I saw doctors and got blood tests for a few years. luckily I shied away when they offered to destroy my thyroid gland and replace it with a lifetime subscription to levothyroxin. I read all the same books the doctors read in college. no solutions there. read a few books by ex-doctors who realized they weren't healing anyone and quit their jobs to become naturopaths or whatever. kept studying and healing myself, ultimately just about everything cleared up.

I went through a few versions of successively stricter paleo and then pure meat diets for around six months each, ultimately added back in some rice and fruit and a carrot or a leaf occasionally. actually I eat what I want these days but if I go too far off the rails for awhile I start having itchy skin.

the pure meat thing is called an elimination protocol. by taking away all the plant and chemical toxins for a few months and observing what happens you can determine whether they cause or contribute to your problems. meat also contains the only useful antioxidant for humans which I think is called glutathione. also every other nutrient in optimal ratios if you eat organs, fat, and bone broth.

one of the ways professional scientists mislead people into eating too many vegetables is by misrepresenting the bodies healing response to vegetable-toxin damage as being from the vegetables themselves, eg poisons like sulforophane and oxalic acid trigger the body to release antioxidants, the scientists measure these in the bloodstream and conclude that eating veggies raises antioxidant levels.
kind of like setting house fires increases local firefighter levels - but you wouldn't claim that arson is good for fire suppression. well that's exactly how these studies work. they actually mean the opposite of what the industry scientists would have you believe


rheuma advice:
1) don't exercise
2) take drugs
3) you can't fix this. it's an old age problem and you are just fucked. here have some distilled horse piss, we call it allopurinol. it won't fix you and it just might kill you (seriously). see you next visit!

 

[Tone C]

 

[UberHere]

It sucks. You talk to multiple doctors and specialists over the years and explain your symptoms, they send you here and there, do all the tests available under the sun but can't figure it out. And it gets to the point where they think you're just making it up. I stopped talking to people about it becaus they think the same. My boss thinks it's time to give up and just deal with it.

Since my early 20s, my fingers hurt when I click on a mouse. Over 20 years, its gotten worse and now its every single joint in my body. If I even bump my fingers, knees, elbow, anything, it swells up and I'll be in pain for months til it gets better. My back hurts when I sleep, I have to wake up every couple of hours to sit on a recliner, then go back to sleep, then go back to recliner again. I'm always sleepy and dizzy. My vision changed 20 years ago and been to a dozen eye specialists, neurologists, opthalmologists, neuro opthalmologists.

Done a million blood tests, Xrays, MRIs, CT scans, Ultrasounds..

I get leads and they turn up nowhere. Now the most recent one is a rheumatologist who thinks my uric acid is too high and I have gout. I've been taking allopurinol for 6 weeks and dont feel a difference.

Lots of people come in with complaints like that. Most of the time it just boils down to poor lifestyle and/or the American diet. Drinking all kinds of shit under the sun except water. Desk jobs are what chronic pain would be if it was a prescription.

Then on the other hand there are lots of healthy people with very faulty training programs that cause all kinds of havoc on their tendons and bursa. If you’re overusing a muscle group, and under using another, you’re in for a life of chronic pain.

You could have fibromyalgia or chronic fatigue syndrome I guess. Also often overlooked are gut problems that manifest as joint pain and skin rashes in the early stages.

If you really want a doctor to find something wrong with you, they will. Like your elevated uric acid levels which is just another symptom and not a diagnosis. You don’t have gout.

By any chance, have you ever lived in an area where tick born illnesses are common? Then there’s the old med school proverb, when the diagnosis is unclear it must be syphilis

 

[GSP_37]

Consider how little time docs spend thinking about your situation. They could care less.

I once went to the ER and had a brief list of dates and symptoms I brought with me and the doc and nurses wouldn't even look at it. How are you supposed to treat the patient without knowing the detailed problem? One male nurse spent more time flirting with a female visiting nurse.