Date: 10/20/2002 6:46:00 PM
From Authorid: 21867
...I tend to feel better after talking with the Doc...till I see the bill...then I begin to get mildly nauseous...  |
Date: 10/20/2002 6:47:00 PM
From Authorid: 54968
Hmmm...I haven't been to the doc in a long time but I guess I feel better. Cuz then I know what's wrong with me and I don't have to worry about what it is.   |
Date: 10/20/2002 6:49:00 PM ( From Author )
From Authorid: 20702
Agent Smith, I agree with you on the bill thing. Perhaps that would be a good topic for a discussion down the road. The cost of health care and the care you get for the cost.  |
Date: 10/20/2002 6:50:00 PM
From Authorid: 16845
c...after they give me the drugs LMAO  |
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Date: 10/20/2002 6:51:00 PM
From Authorid: 16845
dang it that's suppose to be D...not c lmao although i guess you didn't letter these. oh well! |
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Date: 10/20/2002 6:51:00 PM ( From Author )
From Authorid: 20702
I was just to the doctors the other day, in some serious pain and the medicine she gave me was wonderful.........but, just knowing that I did not have a feared illness, I felt better. |
Date: 10/20/2002 6:53:00 PM
From Authorid: 46530
I think most ilnesses have some sort of psychological attachment, so yes I agree with you. I work with doctor's all the time, and to be honest they are the worst kind of human beings I have ever met. Then again I have not yet come face to face with either an estate agent or a politician, so what do I know  |
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Date: 10/20/2002 6:57:00 PM
From Authorid: 16845
see I'm not really a doctor person.....my folks were out of town last month and I had to drive myself to the er at about midnight while they were gone.....*thought it was my appendix* I didn't feel better while there or with the doctor...the doctor just caused more pain and gave no answers....except stuff I already knew....'well your not pregnant' *duh sherlock I told you that!* anyway LMAO I didn't feel better while there....ok I guess I did feel a bit better when they said it wasn't appendicitis UNTIL he said 'we could be wrong though humans and machines are failable, you had reason to come in but we don't know what's wrong' YEAH THANKS! the whole high white cell count and super high blood pressure and they let me go with a nice pain med...i didn't feel better til i took that....*sigh* then when I went in for a follow up thinking I'd feel better they couldn't do anything til they had my test results...so I went home feeling bad still...and still on the percocet....I went into the er monday night...ok really tuesday morning. i didn't get any answers til friday night....bah! doctors. LOL |
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Date: 10/20/2002 7:01:00 PM ( From Author )
From Authorid: 20702
Becky, I know what you mean, I went to the er 2 times in one week and they never did find out what was wrong....Sometimes I think they are in the racket for the money....But, I must confess, I have found a doctor who actually takes TIME with her patients....The meaning for doctor is actually Teacher.....Thanks for posting. |
Date: 10/20/2002 7:02:00 PM
From Authorid: 17014
Ya know what? i think being sick (like colds and stuff) is all in a lot of peoples heads-- you taught to believe that if you have a cold that you are miserable. But if you defy what you are taught and go about your day like it is a normal day aside from nose blowing and coughing-- you really won't feel that bad. I rarely ever get sick because I don't LET myself get sick. You know what I mean?  |
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Date: 10/20/2002 7:04:00 PM
From Authorid: 17014
P.S.- I refuse to go to the doctors unless I am in such severe pain that i can't breathe...LOL. I don't baby myself like most people do-- babying yourself when you are sick makes you all the weaker and sicker. You have to work to fight off those germs. |
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Date: 10/20/2002 7:04:00 PM
From Authorid: 17014
PSS- I only feel better when the meds actually work...LOL |
Date: 10/20/2002 7:05:00 PM
From Authorid: 58308
Oh my! Sometimes I feel better leaving the doctors office because I am doing just that... leaving the doctors office. LOL Most of the time I leave feeling no better at all. And a couple of times I left feeling better like you said... finding out that there is nothing seriously wrong. Sorry I can't give you a 'single' answer. LOL Hugs! Zeeboette  |
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Date: 10/20/2002 7:05:00 PM ( From Author )
From Authorid: 20702
The mind is a powerful thing. I have heard of people that can actually go through an operation without and medication. Now that is powerful, so perhaps you are right, if we think we are going to be sick then perhaps we will be....Negativity is our worst enemy. |
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Date: 10/20/2002 7:09:00 PM
From Authorid: 16845
kelsey has a good point... I can normally do that when I've got a cold or something...however if I've got food posioning or something like the pain I had when I thought it was appendicitis *I couldn't even walk* hehe I get my butt in...but minor stuff I hardly get sick....I don't even remember what a headache feels like since I haven't had one in YEARS *knock on wood* colds have never really done anything to me to slow me down too much....I mean yeah i'll go to bed earlier and such but as a rule it doesn't stop me from doing the things I do...etc...ok I'm blabing LOL but she's got a point! |
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Date: 10/20/2002 7:09:00 PM
From Authorid: 17014
Yes Angel-- it truly is! |
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Date: 10/20/2002 7:11:00 PM ( From Author )
From Authorid: 20702
So Becky, did they find out what was wrong with you? |
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Date: 10/20/2002 7:13:00 PM
From Authorid: 16845
LMAO yeah I hadn't been drinking enough water *slightly dehydrated* so I had a bacteria build up that caused a urinary tract infection *blushes* that was the first thing the hospital looked for too...*Shrugs* mom said it was because my symptoms were so abnormal....still test shoulda said it all. Oh well! |
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Date: 10/20/2002 7:13:00 PM
From Authorid: 17014
Becky-- the last time I went to the doctor I WAS in so much pain that I couldn't breathe-I'd had trouble breathing for 2 or 3 days- deep breaths and coughing hurt like nothing else- I woke up crying my eyes out one morning and couldn't breathe except in short gasps. THEN I went! LOL- It turned out to be Costochrondritis- inflammation to the muscles and cartilage of the ribcage due to arthritis! I was only 22 when I was diagnosed with arthritis-- in my ribs of all places! LOL |
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Date: 10/20/2002 7:15:00 PM
From Authorid: 17014
Heh- that was three years ago! |
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Date: 10/20/2002 7:18:00 PM ( From Author )
From Authorid: 20702
Why do you suppose so many people wait until it is almost too late, before they go to a doctor? My mom had Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever a few years ago and she is a very subborn woman, anyway, when we finally talked her into going, they said if we would have waited any longer she would have died. Everything we go through is to be a lesson, unfortunatly some of us never learn. Lesson here being, don't wait but be careful of fly by night doctors also. Find one that you truely trust..... |
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Date: 10/20/2002 7:22:00 PM
From Authorid: 17014
Yeah- I know what you mean- stubbornness runs in my family-- both my grandpa and my dad waited until they were doubled over in pain and couldn't walk before they would do anything about their gall stones. My mom had to practically carry my dad to the car in the niddle of the night to go to the ER.....I think the reason is is because Health Care is so expensive anymore- no one can afford it! I sure can't. I don't have health ins. through my job yet and to get it outside of a job would cost 2 or 3 hundred dollars a MONTH. Forget that! |
Date: 10/20/2002 7:35:00 PM
From Authorid: 52679
i feel exactly the same  |
Date: 10/20/2002 7:45:00 PM
From Authorid: 39129
I feel just as bad, if not worse. maybe thats because I cant understand a word he says! that guy needs some serious english classes.  |
Date: 10/20/2002 7:50:00 PM
From Authorid: 15279
I don't know about feeling better afterwards, but I know that I have wasted my time! LOL Half the time they are way too pre occupied with a fast diagnosis, to see what it really is..cas in point
~~In 2000 I had a laser surgury done on my back to help pain due to scoliosis ( wich i have had since birth but didn't find till the epidural before my second child!) and not only did he fix the pain, he put a huge hole in my small intestine with the laser! Well right away afer waking from the laser thing I felt sick, but was brushed off with "it's the anesthesia". I felt sick for six days and decided to go to walmart with a friend in westbend, on the sixth day. Where I collapsed in pain inside the store. I drove myself to the hospital with bothkids in tow and scramed bloody heck the whole way there. My kids were terrified. I had my friend take my kids ( I am in debt to her for life u know) and I was quickly admitted. I had a fever of 105 and I was finally put out and given morphine. They were convinced it was PID (for all u women out there thats an STD) I had more pelvics that day then I had my whole life. They finally voted for exploratory surguey, and found the infection and source of my pain. I was cut from sternum to pubic bone and I was sick for a month. This doc was able to get away with it. NO attourney would even talk about it. I guess malpractice is harder to prove than I thought. Last i knew at 24 you don't get this illness easily unless you eat an entire chicken bones and all. I am still very traumatized by this and don't trust doctors at all...
~Crystal~  |
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Date: 10/20/2002 7:52:00 PM
From Authorid: 17014
I don't blame you for not trusting docs Crystal..i wouldn't either. |
Date: 10/20/2002 8:32:00 PM
From Authorid: 47699
I usually feel better after I leave there because I know what's wrong and how to fix it.  |
Date: 10/20/2002 9:17:00 PM
From Authorid: 46800
depends I have not been to a Doctor Doctor in a while for an illness but I believe STRESS leads to alot of illnesses. In fact you just remind me I do have to find a good one tomorrow. Thanks,  |
Date: 10/21/2002 5:15:00 AM
From Authorid: 23886
Not actually FEEL better...I'd just feel a bit releived that i'd know whats wrong with me...but not actually FEEL better! To be honest, I've never been in these kinds of situations, and i hope i dont! LOL  |
Date: 10/21/2002 7:13:00 AM
From Authorid: 54570
I usually feel bad until I tou8ch the doorknob at the doctors office. Then the miracle of healing begins and I feel so much better.......... But in reality I feel better after the doctor has found out and talked it over with me before I leave.  |
Date: 10/24/2002 9:43:00 AM
From Authorid: 21294
I think FEAR is the answer the question why do we wait...In mothers case however, it is called being "stubborn". Do I feel better after I go to the doctor. I feel better that I have made the decision to go and that I am confident that the doctor knows what he/she is doing. Just went yesterday. The doctor was very knowledable about what I was there for. I being in the Emergency Medical Field for almost 20 years have found most doctors don't really have all the answers, as we often times think they should have, and rather than admit that, they hem haw around and talk in circles, write a RX and send us on our way. The FEAR of malpractice has brought them to that point. Back to the question...sorry....I feel better after I go. Love you sis, DreamWalker  |
Date: 11/6/2002 1:13:00 AM
From Authorid: 8090
No, actually I feel worse because I thoroughly understand what they are saying, I am a nurse, and after having diabetes for the last 24 years sure doesn't help much either...."this medication will prolong renal failure".....gee, thanks alot doc....lmao!  |
