Up date on doctors

skezier

Hi,

I took my back to see a doctor, well I asume he was a doctor but may be he wasn't! He asked me what had happened, I told him, he said it was muscular, I said it didn't feel like it. He examined me and said it was mechanical, I asked him what that meant and he said not muscular........

He went on to ell me that arthritis does what the doctors call flair..... Did anyone know that?!!!.... I said it wasn't it happened when I lifted a 25 kl bag of corn and got the lift wrong....... He then told me if it still hurt in 2 weeks to come back and he might send me for an x ray....... I am so glad I went........ :roll:

My thanks to you all for your support the last week and all of you take care. Cris x

Hi Joanne,
I really hope you feel better soon. x

ritnew

Hi
Perhaps you should tell him to join this site he may learn a thing or two.
Why won't they listen to us we know our bodies better than they do.
Hope you feel better soon.

Rita X

mash65

just makes me wonder what they all do at med school whilst qualifying. :roll:

Wonkylegs

I can't believe it :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock:

I must be so lucky with my GP ...... even the times when she asks me if i can bear to wait a little longer before she orders more tests etc she apologises and tries to come up with interim help. So sorry Chris - don't know what else to say.

As for the party (from other thread) - it all went well, the surprise was indeed a surprise! ..... but we are all still reeling from the effort and the fact that the heating had been on full blast in the hall ..... and we were dancing :roll: so we were all a little red-faced by the end of the evening. My friend is still a friend though, so we must have done something right!!

Littlelegs stayed at home, and obviously missed us. Today she was fine until we took her on a long walk, she ate somethings she shouldnt have (don't ask!), lots of grass ..... came home, ate her tea and then was 'sick as a dog' (now know what that means!!!) so we have got someone to look after tomorrow whilst we are out. Hope he doesn't have to clear up after her again!

Slipperboy is welcome to help clean the glasses I brought back home but couldn't face today. I will put him to work when he arrives!

take care and I hope you manage to fix your back through your vigorous daily physio

skezier

Hi Rita,

Maybe they should make it part of their training...... We could train them to at least pretend to understand.........He did offer me morphine patches so at least he believed me........... I just don't fancy being sick as well just now....... x

Hi Debs,

He's new and very young, imagine how 'good' he will be when he becomes complacent............ x

Hi Wonky,

I like to think my 'lovely' doctors are the minority and most are good but sometimes as you read the posts you wonder don't you? I see the pain clinic soon, she may be able to tell me what I have done. I also get my drip next month and if I ask them nicely they may get my Rumo to pop down and have a quick look so it could be worse.

I'm glad you all enjoyed your selves, and hope the clearing up doesn't tire you too much.

I hope Little legs stopped quickly? Did she say that while you were out enjoying your selves she was having her own party? I don't know where he's been but slipper boy said he'd been up helping you........ He's obviously taken a wrong turn somewhere....... In so many ways!......... I'll send him back in a min...... No need to return him........

Well I am off to do some work, I hope the back holds up as I seem to remember this is where it started!

You take care and I hope you get some sun today,
Cris x

josiec

Oh Cris! How ridiculous that doctor is but how frustrating it must be for you!! It does put you off even bothering sometimes and it shouldn't be like that! Grrrr! Hope you feeling better very soon! Take care, Josie x

skezier

Hi Josie,

I a resolved to not being looked at by the 'lovely' doctors...... :roll: However I really would like to know what I have done....... Seems fair to me...... I think the dehydrated disc has gone and this is bone on bone, I can't think what else it could be?

The people here have helped me to keep going as deep down all I want to do is curl up an die just now, I did a sale this morn and they are hard work where my bones are concerned. Cup of tea and I shall be fine again. I owe you people with your kindness and thank you for agreeing the doctor could have done more but I think they have written me off.......

I hope you are ok and have the same sun as here.
Take care, Cris x

josiec

I wish we could do more to help though, emotional support isn't the same as proper medical care which you should be entitled to. :x

skezier

Hi Josie,

I absolutely promise you that the emotional support is worth more than any medical support any day x

nickynysmon08

skezier wrote:

Hi Josie,

I absolutely promise you that the emotional support is worth more than any medical support any day x

reply;

I fully agree and endorse what has been said here. doctors are human and one assumes capable of complacency, and maybe they have had an argument with the wife, or kids, or maybe they too have health problems like we??

I have excellent doctors, but their advice on osteo is limited, though up to date. tablets and basic common sense are what i have gotten from them, but I am still seeing a physio, I hope soon. one really needs in depth advice from those who understand the full mechanics of arthritis, I agree about the emotional support.
my problem is the 'fear' factor, will I damage it more, how will my knees be in one, five, ten years time let alone thirty. and should I still go for walks. longish walks, and will it damage them more. I quite simply, do not know........

I believe we need in- depth advice, and in the end personal experience is often the best counsellor i believe, but we do need reassurance from other fellow sufferers, or from physios and surgeons.
it is not easy , flare- ups are unpleasant., the blow torch burning in our joints at night, sleep disturbed by lying on our arthritic joints- I know how much pain that can cause!!!
in the end we need more than all else to know what our limits are, and whether these limits are increasing, stabilizing, or decreasing. only time and professional advice will help us here I believe.
I am going for a long walk in a couple of hours, I hope, - but am fearful of disturbing my knees as to make them worse, but have reasoned the only way to find out is to try.
how sad seeing all the walkers and hikers, older than myself, strolling on ahead. but such are things,

best wishes,

nick

skezier

Hi Nick,

I am so lucky I don't have the fear of what I might do to mine, I worry sometimes over what it might do to me but I tend to hold to the 'if I can do it I will' thing....... Not always sensible but it is less constraining. Certainly it could be argued my attitude has made things worse..... especially just now..... but I still think it would have done this at some point anyway.

Fear of the future I did used to do, they were wrong on their prognosis though so nothing is certain. You may be able to go on as you are for a very long time and you may get treatments that can return you to all but normal for you again.

I agree it would be handy to be able to have it all explained to you but my Rumo does tend to do that, thankfully. My original back surgeon was very good at explaining things as well, its my doctors that are rubbish but luckily I am in the system so there are other people to talk to when I see them.

Its hard to get your head round it all to begin with but you do find your own levels and you learn what your bones are capable of doing in time. I think the fact you are still walking is good and the people in front, well they have just been luckier than you.

You take care, Cris