Advice please

Thanks Katie

Must admit, I feel a bit [i:7e7d6d97fd]sledge-hammered[/i:7e7d6d97fd] today (if there is such a word), legs like lead, whole body achey and brain fuddled but I have my list to finish compiling so I will have to push on.

Hubby has volunteered to accompany me for moral support and I think I might take him up on his offer :?

I hope you are feeling OK.

Kristal

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i think it's a really good idea to take your hubby, and to see your doctor on a bad day. in my experience you've got to tell them what you're like on your worst day before they take you seriously.

i really do hope you get some kind of diagnosis or referral kristal.

fingers crossed

Trees x

Thanks Trees

I must admit that I am a bit nervous about the meeting, probably because I feel it is so important to me and I am worried that I won't put my point across properly and make him understand me.

Sat down last night and had a long chat with hubby about it all and we realised that I have been having loads of the symptoms for a couple of years now but because my doctor has been telling me that everything is linked to depression I have been trying to trudge on through but I feel I need to know more now ..... so I am determined to put my foot down with a firm hand :lol: ...... and if he really doesn't want to listen then I will have to change doctors.

Phew, I am worn out now just thinking about it all

Kristal

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Good Luck for tomorrow Kristal. At least you have a supportive husband :P

Isn't sledge-hammer a song by Peter Gabriel? Am I showing my age too much?!

Dale xxx

Hi again Kristal

Yes, that's really great that your husband will be there for you - just so that he can reinforce what you are saying if need be ........

Sometimes when I have been trying to put over my problems I have ended up :wah: and feeling all sorry for myself - so it will be good to have some support.

ME really does heighten the emotions :roll:

Will be thinking of you.

Katie :hug:

Thanks Dale ...... I'm going around singing 'Sledge-Hammer' now ...... :roll:

Not sure it was by Peter Gabriel though :?:

Good luck for tomorrow Kristal, it is a great idea if your husband goes with you.

I am depressed :cry:

Just spent an hour with my doctor and guess what he said ..... I am depressed

I tried really hard to be prepared, I presented him with a list of ME symptoms and told him that it described me to a tee and explained how symptoms had got progressively worse over the couple of years he has been seeing me (even though I have already told him that before) and he just kept nodding and telling me that I am depressed

Even my hubby chipped in when he could see that I wasn't getting anywhere but it seems I have one of those doctors who doesn't really [i:fadb819067]get[/i:fadb819067] ME and just thinks it is a vague list of problems that are all caused by, guess what ..... depression, grrrrrrr.

I explained my concerns about the aches & pains and in particular the extreme dental pain I now get when having any treatment and once again he nodded sweetly and explained that it was caused by depression :evil:

:bleep: :bleep: :bleep: :bleep: :bleep: :bleep:

His parting shot was to remind me that he had other patients waiting to see him and suggest I go back in 2 weeks time to discuss whether I want to pursue the ME route or accept that I am depressed :evil: :evil: :evil:

Sorry, think I should have used the Punchbag thread for this.

Phew, I am exhausted now.

Hope you are all having a good day

Kristal

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Sorry you had such a bad time at the doctors. :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: Is there a different doctor in the practice you could see? If not is there another practice near by you could change too? It is so :bleep: annoying but unfortunaly is is a mountain many suffers have to face. :cry: :cry: :cry:

Kristal I feel so angry for you, I want to come and shake your GP by the shoulders - how patronising he is. :steam:

This is what I had to put up with for 2 and a half years and why I decided to pay for a consultation at the National ME Centre.

When I went to the NMEC Dr Mitchell completed a questionnaire for depression. If you are depressed you will score 11 or more depending on the severity and I scored 7. He wrote to my GP in no uncertain terms and advised all medication for depresion to be stopped as it was like a Band Aid that had lost its sticky - useless.

You will get help, but this GP is wasting such a lot of time when you could be getting treatment. Please consider getting another opinion.

Can I suggest you contact the M.E. Association for help?

oh kristal definitely change doctors - he's just not getting it, is he?

Trees x

He'll get it if I see him - right on the nose :grrr:

haha! :lol: let's all go round and give him a piece of our collective mind. we could pretend he's our punch bag forum!

kristal, tell you GP to watch out - you're sending the girl round :grrr:

Trees x

oh i just messed up my own punch line!

that was supposed to be YOU'RE sending the GIRLS round.

oh dear. that's exactly what im like telling jokes in real life :oops: