Doctor Phobia
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Is anybody else afraid of going to the doctor? Adding up my medical visits in 2016, I've had eleven appointments, including testing and lab work, plus my surgery last month. Today, I have to see my GI Doctor and will have a colonoscopy at the end of June. There will not have been a single month in the first six months of this year that I haven't seen a doctor. I feel overwhelmed by it. I always expect the worst now, having gone through so much in a short period of time. I have started exercising again and am working gradually on getting in better shape and wish that would help the anxiety some. I dread seeing doctors now.
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Call it a miracle or inner strength, but I'm so much better now physically and mentally working out this peri stuff on my own instead of wasting time and money at drs. appts. for them to tell me nothing is wrong me. Wish I could get all my money back from all the time and money I wasted going to them last year.
I recommend not going to them unless you really truly sick, or find one that is actually helpful, empathetic to your health and doesn't make you feel like an idiot. I found all mine were pretty much the same -Useless.
To each his own, but no more crazy drs.and tests for me. Good Luck!
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1 - The gynecologist who did my surgery was a referral from a GP. At the first visit, she was thorough and caring, had some definite ideas about where things were going... but post-op, after it turned out to be a minor issue, she didn't mention anything again about peri or some of the related symptoms she'd been so eager to discuss at that first exam. It was just "come back next year" and I was back on my own.
2 - In 20 years of living with Crohn's, neither of the GI doctors who have overseen my case have ever talked with me about diet, lifestyle, and other factors that impact the disease. I've been lucky to have mild disease, but I've never really relied on a doctor for any practical advice about living with it because they've never had any to offer. They've dealt with me strictly as a patient who comes in for checkups, prescription refills, and colonoscopies, like clockwork.
I have to mention one more irony... my weight is the highest it's ever been in my life. After a bad car accident three years ago, I got heavily into comfort eating, which then became a kind of binge eating issue when peri took hold. I went in there today and stood on their stupid digital scale in clothes and shoes, right after lunch, of course, and weighed 200 pounds. Not a word from the GI Doctor, nor did the gyn say anything a few weeks ago when it was something like 198 on her scale. I am significantly overweight for the first time in my life and neither said a single word about it. Maybe I'm crazy, but I thought they'd notice that... or maybe I just wanted them to notice.
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I really don't think doctors really care these days. It's just a job to most of them. At least in my experience it's like that. Or maybe I just gave them too much credit.
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Menopause was never easy. But years ago 1 - women didn't live so long (menopause was part of 'old age'). 2 - Our ancestors ate better - no sugar or big mac's!
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