Posted by bleauberry on March 3, 2011, at 4:49:18
In reply to New-No Progress in a Year- HELP!, posted by JusALIlbit on February 27, 2011, at 17:42:35
It is enough of a challenge to get better with a good doctor. But nearly impossible with one who is not. Your don't sound good to me. I don't know any more than what you said, but if your docs were mine I would be firing them and hunting around.
The most important qualities of a doctor:
-Excellent listener
-Cooperative
-AccessibleAnd of course, some experience and skill helps! I have a sour taste in my mouth, because after 12 psychiatrists and several other MDs, NONE seemed to have the experience or skills to deal with anything other than plainjane garden variety minor depression. They all missed the obvious clues.
In your case there are obvious clues being completely ignored.
Here is just one, for example. Numbness? That's a huge clue! Long story, but that calls for antibiotics, or at the very least a major suspicion of an unseen and likely undiagnosble infection. Lyme qualifies, among others. Your doc will disagree, which is why patients stay sick and waiting rooms stay full.
With weird neurological symptoms, such as yours and mine, the diagnosis often does not come until AFTER treatment. In other words, you have to be suspicious, treat the suspicion, and depending on the results make the diagnosis. That is for example the only accurate way to diagnose Lyme disease....take antibiotics first, see what happens, and see prior negative lab results turn positive.
Hard to find a doctor though that has the ears, the creative mind, and the experience to put 2 + 2 together. But they do exist. Ask around. Call some and ask questions. Screen them. It's ok to do that. After all, you are the paying customer. They work for you, not the other way around. You are the boss.
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