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Thank you Carah...I've been pretty sick. Been going to specialist and couldn't convince them that "I am sick". The doctor couldn't see past the fact that there was more going on than just an overweight lady that he is sure my cough is from acid reflux. I kept telling him that I was sure it was more than that but all he did was harp on my weight. I certainly didn't need him to tell me about my weight...I have to look at it every day in the mirror. It was like some great revelation to him that he needed to tell me about it....it certainly wasn't news to me.
Anyway, I've had this "cough" for ever and finally 10 days after seeing the doctor he finally said that there was a secondary throat infection going on. DUGH!!!
I'd been trying to tell him but he was positive it was "just acid reflux". So, now I've been off work all week...finally getting better now that he put me on 4 meds.
I hate doctor's like that. You know when something is different with your body yet they only deal with what they see......Did ya give him a few words to let him know to move on and look for something else.
I am glad they finally did something about it. I hope you get to feeling better soon! Don't stay gone so long!
I agree, but doctors don't really know everything. They only know what they are taught.
I know my body really well. When I don't feel well and know something is not right. A few years ago, I was really not feeling well and was just out of energy, which is not like me. I keep in really good shape, but I was starting to gain weight and could not get any energy for some reason and my face was breaking out even though I never had skin problems before (deep painful pimples on one of my cheeks that were not going away). I kept going to my doctor and she would tell me there was nothing wrong, except she did notice that I seemed a little constipated even though I had been having regular BM's, she put me on high fiber.
Then a couple of weeks later I really started getting sick and my lymph nodes became huge in my neck, you could look at me and see them swollen. I went back (I had also been noticing that this doc didn't seem to look at me when I would talk to her and seemed a little self absorbed and would look at herself in the mirror a lot. She had been having microdermabrasion and her skin was looking really good from the child acne scars she had that were finally diminishing) and she said it looks like you might have strep throat, but the test came back negative. She went ahead and put me on some strong antibiotics and sent my labs off for further analysis. About a week later, the tests came in and I did have strep, but a very rare strep throat, Strep C. I started doing research and found out this was a common strep for Birds and Rabbits, I didn't have chickens, birds or even rabbits at that time or even been around any. I was starting to feel a little better by then, but still not fully recovered. Then two days later I fell even sicker. So went back, now I had strep A the common strep throat, more stronger antibiotics were prescribed. However, now that I had been on high fiber I started noticing scrapings in my, you know. My husband teased me I had an internal engraving tool. So I mentioned this to my doc, although she barely was listening as she stared at herself in the mirror, she did say that I may need to see a specialist. Now a few months before I had already asked to see a specialist of this sort and she told me I didn't need to and I was just fine. But I knew something wasn't right and I was not feeling good.
Well, I got lined up with the specialist, but I also decided to change doctors and went to another doc. I ended up remaining sick with strep throats for almost 3 months. My new doc also tested me for mono, but I was starting to get a little better by this time and it came back inconclusive. However, the new doc and I both believe I may had mono and that was why I was so tired and not feeling well before the strep set in.
When I finally saw my specialist I told him about my internal engravers (of course he laughed and told me he had never had anybody tell him this before, but my husband and I are silly people) and he got me lined up as soon as he could for a colonoscopy, because he was certain himself that something was going on. So I had that done, and sure enough I had polyps. After the procedure, my doc told me the type that was removed was the most cancer aggressive type of polyps, but I was lucky bcs they were still benign.
Well, the moral of my story is you body is your temple and if you take care of it and listen to your body and know your body, don't let a silly doctor tell you nothing is wrong when you are certain something is not right. If I had not been as determined to find out what was wrong and listened to the original doc then I may not be here today. I strongly believe those polyps were poisoning my body and I was going down. After the procedure it took some time and I got even sicker for a few months, but then I got better and the acne went away and the weight I had gained dropped off with out even trying.
Thank you Carah...I've been pretty sick. Been going to specialist and couldn't convince them that "I am sick". The doctor couldn't see past the fact that there was more going on than just an overweight lady that he is sure my cough is from acid reflux. I kept telling him that I was sure it was more than that but all he did was harp on my weight. I certainly didn't need him to tell me about my weight...I have to look at it every day in the mirror. It was like some great revelation to him that he needed to tell me about it....it certainly wasn't news to me.
Anyway, I've had this "cough" for ever and finally 10 days after seeing the doctor he finally said that there was a secondary throat infection going on. DUGH!!!
I hate doctor's like that. You know when something is different with your body yet they only deal with what they see......Did ya give him a few words to let him know to move on and look for something else.
I am glad they finally did something about it. I hope you get to feeling better soon! Don't stay gone so long!
I agree, but doctors don't really know everything. They only know what they are taught.
I know my body really well. When I don't feel well and know something is not right. A few years ago, I was really not feeling well and was just out of energy, which is not like me. I keep in really good shape, but I was starting to gain weight and could not get any energy for some reason and my face was breaking out even though I never had skin problems before (deep painful pimples on one of my cheeks that were not going away). I kept going to my doctor and she would tell me there was nothing wrong, except she did notice that I seemed a little constipated even though I had been having regular BM's, she put me on high fiber.
Then a couple of weeks later I really started getting sick and my lymph nodes became huge in my neck, you could look at me and see them swollen. I went back (I had also been noticing that this doc didn't seem to look at me when I would talk to her and seemed a little self absorbed and would look at herself in the mirror a lot. She had been having microdermabrasion and her skin was looking really good from the child acne scars she had that were finally diminishing) and she said it looks like you might have strep throat, but the test came back negative. She went ahead and put me on some strong antibiotics and sent my labs off for further analysis. About a week later, the tests came in and I did have strep, but a very rare strep throat, Strep C. I started doing research and found out this was a common strep for Birds and Rabbits, I didn't have chickens, birds or even rabbits at that time or even been around any. I was starting to feel a little better by then, but still not fully recovered. Then two days later I fell even sicker. So went back, now I had strep A the common strep throat, more stronger antibiotics were prescribed. However, now that I had been on high fiber I started noticing scrapings in my, you know. My husband teased me I had an internal engraving tool. So I mentioned this to my doc, although she barely was listening as she stared at herself in the mirror, she did say that I may need to see a specialist. Now a few months before I had already asked to see a specialist of this sort and she told me I didn't need to and I was just fine. But I knew something wasn't right and I was not feeling good.
Well, I got lined up with the specialist, but I also decided to change doctors and went to another doc. I ended up remaining sick with strep throats for almost 3 months. My new doc also tested me for mono, but I was starting to get a little better by this time and it came back inconclusive. However, the new doc and I both believe I may had mono and that was why I was so tired and not feeling well before the strep set in.
When I finally saw my specialist I told him about my internal engravers (of course he laughed and told me he had never had anybody tell him this before, but my husband and I are silly people) and he got me lined up as soon as he could for a colonoscopy, because he was certain himself that something was going on. So I had that done, and sure enough I had polyps. After the procedure, my doc told me the type that was removed was the most cancer aggressive type of polyps, but I was lucky bcs they were still benign.
Well, the moral of my story is you body is your temple and if you take care of it and listen to your body and know your body, don't let a silly doctor tell you nothing is wrong when you are certain something is not right. If I had not been as determined to find out what was wrong and listened to the original doc then I may not be here today. I strongly believe those polyps were poisoning my body and I was going down. After the procedure it took some time and I got even sicker for a few months, but then I got better and the acne went away and the weight I had gained dropped off with out even trying.
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