Took the advice

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I just got off the phone with the nurse. I told her about my

feelings on the diagnosis as well as how I felt about the

medication. She seem upset that I was questioning the doctor but I

think she understood. She did agree with me that a few weeks will

not make any difference.

She explained to me that the doctor likes to try patients on drugs to

see if they respond. If they do that just confirms his diagnosis. I

told her I prefer not to be an experiment especially since many of

these drugs can have serious side effects and consquences. I would

prefer to know that I either have RA or not.

I am going to go try and see another doctor. I called the insurance

company and they are going to see if they can find someone else for

me to see. I told them it was for second opinion. They said it

might be as far as 200 miles away and I many have to wait a long time

for an appnt.

She also offered to give me a copy of my tests and papers from this

doc to carry to the new one. I thought that was nice of her. So she

is faxing them.

So in the end we cancelled the next appnt, put the drugs on hold and

I have the insurance company hunting down another doc for second

opinion.

Thank you all for helping me get though a lot of this.