Re: OT-- What a total trip at the dermatology visit today. Oh my!

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Oh Lordy, your dermatologist must have gone to school with the one that I saw

one time. I should have suspected what the visit was like when I had to 'take a

number', literally, there was a big number tag on my file. This guy was

supposed to be the best around! I had two lesions on my leg and two on my face.

He looked at them, said they needed to be biopsied, shoved the needle in my leg

and took them both off. Then he said that the ones on my face wouldn't need to

be frozen, before I could complain he had dropped some kind of acid type

compound on my face and that was that. When I almost feinted he yelled at me!

I never went back to him.

Your day was much worse, but I can empathize. If you have a Mayo Clinic,

absolutely go there.

Patsy

El Mirage, AZ

DX 2005 Stage 1 PBC

AIH/SLE/RA/COPD

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Ebony

That is terrible! You poor thing, I hope that you feel better.

Go back & see what he has to say for himself. Then I'd give him a

real serve. Any respect has to be deserved!

If you have to, write a letter to his professional body.

No one dserves to be treated in this manner. We are not cattle.

Can you ask around for some local knowledge on the health providers

in your area. Does your primary health provider have any suggestions?

Deb in Aust.

--- In , " Ebony " <stillbreathing29@...>

wrote:

>

> I guess I am just so outdone and so shocked at the way my visit

> turned out.

>

> I don't know if I am just not good at picking doctors or if this

is

> routine procedure and everyone else is going through the same

> things. I finally found a dermatologist at a local hospital. I

have

> been having painful areas (what appears to me to be nodules) in my

> legs since May 2006 maybe sooner. I was given prednisone at the

> rheumatologist clinic by the PA. No more was done. i continued to

> complain about the area, however. I traveled 300 miles to see my

old

> rheumatologist and was told I needed to see a dermatologist. I

have

> yet to find a primary care doc here. I would still be just

picking

> someone out of a hat. However, lately the nodules appeared on the

> back of my legs this time between the calves and the ankles and

are

> very painful very. the tissue is swollen from the extreme edema

but

> also it seems hard to touch, not just swollen. I got to the appt

> early. He asked why was I there. I told him. He mashed

vigorously

> all over the area not taking any kind of care to not hurt. I

thought

> I was going to scream. He then said he needed to do a biopsy

rather

> abruptly, asked me to lie down on my stomach so he could do the

> biopsy.. I told him about my arthritic hips and I couldn't do

that

> without pillows or sheets or cushions or something and he was well

> how do you sleep. My husband said on her back propped with

pillows.

> I was so taken aback at his ignorance of how RA can affect the

hips

> and the type of pain I am in from the RA and the things he

expected

> me to be able to do or else he couldn't help me…. So we took the

> biopsy with me standing and leaning across the semi bed in the

room

> and then again with the medical assistant holding my leg because

the

> other one didn't take. no type of anything the numb the pain

> because of blood thinners I bled everywhere and he was not able to

> cauterize the area. I have never seen anything like this. This

was

> his first time seeing me. what happened to evaluating me first,

> scheduling an appt for the biopsy, then bringing me back to a

place

> suitable for someone with arthritic hips, one that was sterile

than

> doing the biopsy with gloves on this time. Oh my! Anyway, they

will

> call for the results and I guess I go back for followup but I was

> just shocked at how abrupt the appt was. I was told to dry soak

the

> are which I will research because I have no idea what dry soak

means

> and neither did the pharmacist. He didn't even look at the other

> areas of concern like whether this is psoriasis on my scalp.

>

> where are the real doctors? Is Mayo clinic the answer or will it

> just be more of the same. Playing doctor to myself is getting

real

> old. By the way I am still in pain, moreso after the biopsy and

> manipulation of the affected areas.. Am I supposed to be still in

> pain? Isn't that why I went to the doctor in the first place, to

get

> rid of the pain?

>

> Hope your day was better.

>

> peace,

> Ebony

>