Guest guest Posted July 5, 2012 Report Share Posted July 5, 2012 Oh Sam! I am SO sorry you have gone thru all of this... and hope for your speedy recovery. I know you're a tough old bird but my gawd - what a bunch of trouble you didn't need! I admire your spunk..these days I sometimes feel " too sick " to go to the ER or my doctor..I don't need all the " preliminaries " to getting care. And I guess it has to get to a point where you know you aren't going to get thru it on your own to give in and see someone for help. For me, anyway. I have terrible reflux these days to where it is ruining my life....I am taking Pepcid every 12 hours and hoping for the best right now. I have a long list of potentially problematic things going on with my health right now. I have become so gun shy of Dr's that I would almost rather die than go to one. My only doctor I am seeing right now is my holistic " prince " who will listen to me and help me. The doctors themselves are not the problem..it is all the endless forms, interrogations, questions, TESTING, etc. No longer can we walk in with a complaint and be seen and treated so easliy..after going thru taking care of my brother in law until he died and then seeing my sister thru her hysterectomy - they rearranged her entire insides, pulled out her intestines and moved them around, looking for cancer and removed 7 lymph nodes and never found any trace - a year later she is still no longer herself - I can truly say that I would rather die than see another doctor right now. You see a specialist - the " best " in their field " and end up broken. It seems that putting the patient at ease is the least of their concerns. I know my attitude will change, and I will get back to my old self again, but right now I need some respite and to know there is life beyond doctors offices and hospitals. Sending Light to you - take care, Sam > > I wasn't gone, I just had nothing much to say - sort of still recovering > from a Godzilla sized bleeding duodenal ulcer and a 50% ulcerated > esophagus... > > And speaking of symptoms, I certainly had a lot of them, but had no idea > they pointed to a growing and potentially deadly ulcer. But now that I've > deciphered what those symptoms mean, I can now seek appropriate help if it > happens again. That's sort of the way I learned how to decipher my own > unique symptoms of sex hormone deprivation. > > Sam Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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