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Jenn060306
09-15-2006, 08:58 PM
Ok. So today i saw the first specailist my family Dr. sent me to see. I have been very nervous because i am not sure what is going to happen. I worry alot. I know it. But i can't help but wonder what my fate is. The question lingers in my mind.... what's wrong with me? Why am i having so much pain?! At times i've felt like the worry would eat me alive. :bbredface:

So today i arrived about 5 min before my appointment. There was another woman in the waiting room as well. Then a man rushed in about 15 min later. It was the Dr. Late. Grrr. So he had to see her first since she was ahead of me.
I got into see him half an hour after my appointment time. Then he speaks really fast and i am getting confused by what he is saying as i am telling him about what's been going on. I have to go back to May when this all started. And Honestly... I don't remember exactly how the pain was. Just that it hurt. Sometimes it was just a dull pain. Somtimes a stabbing pain. Fine i get all that out. Then he asks me to lay down on the table so he can poke arround at my stomic. He can't understand why i am having pain. And that there are 3 different places that i get pain is even more baffling to him. After talking with him, him poking at me and looking at the results from the CT Scan and ultra sound the hospital did and what they said and what they prescribed me. He tells me they were WRONG! what?! huh?!
The infection they belived i had wasn't actually based on any of the tests results they had. They guessed i had an infection that is very rare for someone of my age to have based on an elevated white blood cell count, feever, and stomic pain. WHAT WHAT?!?! Plus the letter from my family Dr. is asking him to check out stuff that he really can not figure out where her concern is from. Again, back to the CT Scan.... nothing on there points to what she is thinking.
So he has No clue what is wrong and is now sending me for more tests at the hospital. Fine... jsut tell me what's up. Give me a way to manage the pain and such. But i can not get in to have the tests done until the middle of Janurary. :snide:
His best guess is that i have an Ulcer. Which if is acurate isn't a big deal. That i'm not so worried about because they are fairly common and very treatable. But i am so fustrated that it is taking me so long to get any answers. Why can't Dr's. get their acts together and talk to eachother about their questions. Don't ask me. I have no clue.
He then tells me i look very concerned and asks if i have any questions and tells me that he will explain everything to me again if i need. Well no, that's ok. I probably look like i'm about ready to freak because i am wondering what is wrong with me. And no i don't have any questions because i really am totally lost. I am very fustrated by this all. Is it going to remain this way as i get older? Any time there is anything remotly wrong with me i am going to be left in the dark for months?!?!?! GRRR!
Sorry about the vent. Thanks for listening. :grinhappy:
AllyM1
09-15-2006, 09:36 PM
Jenn, I am so sorry that you have to go through this! =( Well hopefully all that it is is an ulcer. I will keep you in my thoughts and prayers!

I don't trust doctors. My friend's husband got sick in January and it took doctor's 2 months to figure out that he had menengitis and he almost died. How stupid!

At first I was wondering if that's how it is in Canada with your healthcare system, but I think doctors in general just stink!

Keep your chin up sweetie, and everything will work out for you. Like I said before, I will keep you in my thoughts and prayers, as I am sure many others here will as well.
MOB Karen
09-15-2006, 09:46 PM
I'll be thinking about you too, Jenn!!! I hope it all works out well for you!! It's not just doctors up there, it's doctors in general. They have a hard time diagnosing illnesses. I know they put me through a battery of tests with my fibromyalgia. Good luck, sweetie! :grinhappy:
Jenn060306
09-15-2006, 10:23 PM
Thanks Karen and Ally.
I don't think its the Doctors. I think it is just complicated. I know we are having trouble with Dr. Shortages. And there is such a demand for the skills and tools that there is such a waiting period. Very fustrating.
I am hoping to god that it is only an ulcer in my stomic. In just over a week i will find out more about the cysts and i guess if they are going to remove them or give me meds to help them go away on their own. With that.... maybe the stomic pain will go away and it will be nothing.
MOB Karen
09-15-2006, 10:39 PM
I'm sure everything will be ok, Jenn! Don't worry too much about it, until you have something to worry about. That's what I always tell Amber anyway. LOL!! I'm keeping my fingers crossed for you!! :grinhappy:
WhiskeyGirl
09-15-2006, 11:50 PM
Jenn

So does this mean that your ovary is fine then? Or is that still a different problem altogether?? I know your feelings on doctors in canada Hun!! Hope things get better! Keep me updated OK!!!! Love ya!!
Jenn060306
09-16-2006, 10:52 AM
Jenn

So does this mean that your ovary is fine then? Or is that still a different problem altogether?? I know your feelings on doctors in canada Hun!! Hope things get better! Keep me updated OK!!!! Love ya!!

Totally different problem. Apperently one thing being wrong isn't enough for me. :irked: Next week we find out about the cysts.
CarlosHoney
09-16-2006, 11:31 AM
Aww, Jen. I'm so sorry.... Why is it that people treat Doctors like they're some kind of all knowing Gods? Puh-lease. They cram cram cram to pass the exam after exam, and don't retain the info. They can be wrong just like anyone else..

:hug: Sweetie!! Hang in there. It'll all be okay. I'm so sorry that you are going through this. We're all here for you!!
AllyM1
09-16-2006, 12:30 PM
It's a proven fact that most doctors currently practicing were in the bottom half of their class... Now THAT really makes me comfortable! =(
MOB Karen
09-16-2006, 12:41 PM
It's a proven fact that most doctors currently practicing were in the bottom half of their class... Now THAT really makes me comfortable! =(


Yeah, this question makes you stop and go hmm...

Do you know what they call the person who finished at the bottom of their medical school graduating class? The one who was so dumb that they just barely made the cut? They call that person "Doctor."
4424
09-16-2006, 05:22 PM
we're all allowed to vent but let's be a little kind here. i'm a resident right now and yes, the person who graduates last is still a doctor, but it's pretty darn hard to get there in the first place and many, many people have been rejected in their medical school spot. i do understand there are many frustrations toward the medical field, i sorta have both perspectives.
MOB Karen
09-16-2006, 05:38 PM
we're all allowed to vent but let's be a little kind here. i'm a resident right now and yes, the person who graduates last is still a doctor, but it's pretty darn hard to get there in the first place and many, many people have been rejected in their medical school spot. i do understand there are many frustrations toward the medical field, i sorta have both perspectives.

Sorry, but this is just our opinions of what we have experienced in our lives. Please don't take anything personally, it wasn't directed at anyone in particular. :happy:
4424
09-16-2006, 05:49 PM
of course it's not personal. this is the place to vent :) everyone is entitled to their opinions, i was just offering a different perspective.
Jenn060306
09-16-2006, 08:06 PM
of course it's not personal. this is the place to vent :) everyone is entitled to their opinions, i was just offering a different perspective.

I totally resepect you're opinion and belive that becoming a Dr. is not easy. I never ment to vent about Dr.'s not being good. They are. I appreciate that i have one and i can turn to them for help.
I am fustrated that the Dr's i have seen can't seem to agree on anything. It really bothered me to be told that the first diagnosis was a guess based on a high white blood cell count, feever and stomic pain. There was no test results to point in that direction. I am also fustrated that it is going to take so long to get any answers. I am sure you understand my fustrations.
I'm sorry if you have been hurt by what i said. It was never directed towards anyone specific. Just a need to express my fustrations about not being well and not having any answers.
AllyM1
09-16-2006, 08:34 PM
It's a proven fact that most doctors currently practicing were in the bottom half of their class... Now THAT really makes me comfortable! =(

Well if you notice, I never said that they were dumb, stupid, incapable of doing good, etc. I said that they were in the bottom half of their class.

I'm sorry but I do not trust doctors, and knowing that the one I am about to go to could have graduated 50th out of 50 people makes me uncomfortable. (I don't know how much or little there are in classes, just giving an example)

Karen- thats what I am talking about! lol

Becoming a doctor is hard enough but it's scarey when the possibility of your doctor being the one who scraped by the skin of his/her teeth is frightening!
4424
09-16-2006, 09:01 PM
no offense taken ladies. i was just offering a different perspective. everyone is more than welcome to express their feelings. everyone has had different experiences and i imagine, along with them, frustrations. i'd like to think most of us have the patient's best interest at heart but there's a few bad apples that ruin it for everyone.
SerendipityCrafts
09-16-2006, 09:46 PM
Jenn - part of the problem is our health care system. Sure it's free but it's near impossible to find a family physician. They are way overworked and their patient load is way way too big.

Try not to worry. If it acts up, or if you are still worried, call your GP again. If you are in pain, get to the hospital and become a pain in the system's butt until you get some answers.

Waiting is always the hardest thing to do.