arthritis v spots

luckybug

I went to see my knee doctor today at the hospital, as I was waiting for my knee injecting, I was talking to the pretty young nurse, she asked me how long I had rheumatoid arthritis and I told her It was diagnosed when I was 2 years old, I'm now 43.
I said you'd think in this day and age they would find a cure for it, she smiled and said yeah and you think they would find a cure for spots too :x , on that another nurse around 5 foot 10 blonde very pretty then joined in the conversation, and until the Dr came to inject me I was sat listening to two lovely looking lasses droning on about spots, oh how I wish a ZIT was my only problem!!!! And then after I had my injections and said that was sore, the young one said I know how it feels, I did bums and tums last night and I ache!!!! Doh I really don't think she has a clue how it feels.
Do you think they are vain or ignorant or both???

frogmorton

:!:
Bit of both I reckon :!:
Toni x

tracys

Aaarggghhh! That makes me so angry - you think people that work as nurses would have a better understanding of RA I get so frustrated nobody seems to ge the message how debilitating and painful this disease can be - you always get compared to someone's gran or have you tried this or that! My mission is to get as many people understand this disease - i got told recently by someone with OA that its ok with you people with RA your getting all these new drugs and stuff!! Tell that to a 2 YEAR OLD WITH RA!!

luckybug

scottishlass wrote:

sorry but i feel compelled to reply in support of the majority od decent nursing staff out there.
Rheumatology is a clinical speciality,and unless nursing staff have worked in that area then chances are they will have had very little contact or interaction with patients with Rheumatoid arthritis,
and please dont assume every female wearing a uniform in a hospital is a nurse,chances are they werent even qualified nurses,many people use this term loosley for auxilliarys,clinical support workers,students,phlebotomists etc,but its always the nurses who get the blame.,believe me,very few qualified nurses have a chance to stand around chit-chatting about spots,

Oh and some of us do have a very good understanding..I should know,I am a qualified staff nurse with a particularly aggressive form of Rheumatoid Arthritis that is proving difficult to get under control,I come on the forum for support and understanding just the same as everyone else,but im finding it more and more depressing to read of nursing and medical staff being slated and blamed for so many things...please dont tar us all with the same brush...at the end of the day we are just ordinary people with families and feelings too.

I don't think anyone was slating ALL nursing staff, there are good and bad in all walks of life, but these two were definitely nurses, I have been around enough of them to know when i am talking to a nurse or not. I just think there lack of sympathy and to stand discussing blemishes on their skin was totally unacceptable, when I am sitting there crippled up, and there thought process is that spots are as awful an illness as Rheumatoid Arthritis, makes me wonder how they ever got their jobs, as it was the arthritis clinic? If only I had spots, I could live with them anyday, but not being able to get up on a morning having to ask others to pull my pants up and down, can't reach my hair or my face, my hand joints all deformed, what I would give to have my only problem being spots...... I think they should think before they speak.

suzster

hi, slightly different but i had a problem with my specialist, he was telling me to lose weight as it would help my joints, yes i agree but exercising with stiff tender joints is hard so i'm working on it, all be it slowly but i'm trying! but the thing is this specialist was to put it politly a bit over weight himself, i've had this from nurses to, but surely them telling me it's not healthy to be over weight would come accross better if they were not over weight themselves?
sorry if thats rude but to me it's true.
also the "you shouldn't smoke" coming from a health proffesional who stinks of ****!!!
ok rant over!

petmad

your rant is so true though