Re: Doctor's visit/ to tina

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--- In , Tina Schmidt <spydre_74@...>

wrote:

> Hu Tina, I understand your frustration as most of us do.. My dr

has not even told me I have fibro... he just put me on Elavil and

said it would help.... the only thing I have heard is it might be

fibro.. I KNOW it is... he never even checked any tender points at

all... he just sat there stareing into space while I discused my

pain with him.. and then he wrote a scrip.. He won't even let me try

Lyrica... D**N! do something!.. I hate Drs, take care, Gretchen

> As I put in my other post (a response to another post), I had an

uneventful trip to the doctor's office today. I've just grown so

frustrated. Most days at lunch I lay on the couch in one of our

conference rooms to try to get some rest, or try to get rid of the

pain, and this doctor keeps telling me its just muscular, and my

bone scan was fine. I hate that almost since I started seeing him

I've come off like a witch, but he's not actually doing

anything....I mean, I was 2 months out with this pain, and he was

ready to write it off like nothing was wrong - he only did the tests

that he's done so far because I yelled at him.

>

> When I talked to him after I went to the ER (woke up one day - and

was out of painkillers for a week and a half because the pain

management doc was out - and I couldn't even stand up straight.

That is when the provisional diagnosis was made.) he said, " Yeah, it

could be fibro. " NOw today he says, " I don't think it is, but I

don't know anything about fibro. " His method of checking tender

spots, at least in my extremities, consisted of wrapping his hand

around it and twisting....and evidently when I say it hurts to be

touched, well.

>

> I'm sorry for venting so hard. I don't have a lot of people to

talk to, and most don't want to hear all this. It just seems like

it was 3 years ago - we dance up to the line on it....and then dance

back.

>

> Tina

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