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Post by fughawzi on Jul 20, 2009 1:31:58 GMT
Finally, a thread where you can whine all you want about evil illnesses and crappy doctors! Who doesn't feel better after a good whine? Plus, it is always fun to exchange stories.
I've seen hundreds of doctors in the last few years, most of them extremely crappy. There was the one who told me it was all in my head and refused to refer me to an endocrinologist when I was 11 (Turned out I had Hashimoto's Thyroiditis).. Then the internist who said there was nothing wrong with me, I was just female.
Most of you have already had to listen to my epic whining about the surgery of doom, so I'll spare you that for now.. No promises for later though.
Lets hear the stories!
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Post by kitty on Jul 20, 2009 2:04:47 GMT
I could write a book about crappy doctors, funny diagnoses and crazy hospitals buuuut not sure if they are exactly funny?!
But the "she's just female" thing I've heard before aswell! MEN! %$&@@#!!!
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Post by fughawzi on Jul 20, 2009 2:07:52 GMT
Doesn't have to be funny, don't worry! Any and all stories/complaints are welcome!
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Post by Hildor on Jul 20, 2009 6:45:26 GMT
My dentist hurt my teeth the last time  But no, I am very lucky that I haven't come across bad medical personel yet. |
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Post by Ubereil on Jul 20, 2009 11:15:20 GMT
My worst experience was with a doctor from the Balkans who I had a hard time understanding. She seemed to know about as much as I did at the time (IE what I'd read on the internet).
I know I'm lucky, don't worry about that.
Übereil
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Post by kitty on Jul 20, 2009 11:25:07 GMT
When I was 3, I was diagnosed with Aspergers. My mother was told that she should "carry a hard hand, Asperger's are austist but they can be disciplined when called on enough".
When I was 12, I started to have Sinusitis at least once for fortnight. The doctors told me after the fourth time to "just deal with it", so I had to go to school with 40°C fever (for an entire year, then I started to read about medication in ancient times and selfmedicated me and got better).
When I was 15, I broke one of my toes in sportlessons. I still had to do the jumping rope assignment. (which resulted in me also breaking the bone connecting the toe to the foot)
Shortly after, there was that basketball game. I was sent home after I felt a crazy pain in my ringfinger, I went to a doctor and was told that everything is ok. 2 days later a blue line went from my finger all up to my heart, I had to go to hospital where they found out that the finger was broken in 3 places.
When I was 17, my class made a schooltrip to Prague. At day 3, I had insane pain and a doctor was called. I was sent to a czech hospital and diagnosed with severe nephritis. One of the docs gave me a pill, I asked what it was and he said "something that is strictly forbidden in your country!"
The beginning of the year 2005, I'm 19 now and just finished grade 12. And went mad. What did the first psychiatrist I went to say to me? "Females tend to be a bit cranky once a month, you aren't on your period, are you?"
Shortly after I landed in a madhouse. The psychiatrist checking me for entry asked me the following: "So, you wanna kill yourself. Any belts or the like? You've to hand it over, you know. I personally would let you and every suicidal fellow go about his business but the goverment doesn't like that so very much."
Ok so that was a tiny part of the stories...
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Post by Galadriel on Jul 20, 2009 14:50:42 GMT
I have a crooked right ring finger and pinkie finger because some crappy surgeon didn't fix my tendons too well after I had an accident on a survival trip with the youth movement.
I have a hook which is pretty inconvenient sometimes, but I got used to live with it.
I also sprained my ancle when I was a kid, in those days I was an excellent runner, but I lacked good medical support for that ancle and so the joints are messed up and now I can't run fast or far before a sharp pain runs through my ancle and i have to stop running.
My knees are also ruined from the militairy training, I've lost a lot of cartilage and that hurts like hell when I do intensive walks or jogging, but the doctor said it was all in my head, so no worries there either right? 
Same with my constant headaches, I know the cause, a little crack in my skull right above my left eye, (got one hit too many on the wrong place), but no, the doctors keep it on stress, tiredness and more stress. I so disagree, even without stress or when i'm not tired at all, I keep having headaches, sometimes just under the surface and beareble, but sometimes it hits me hard enough that I want to shut down the entire world.
Ok, I hope I didn't depress you all ;D I'm lucky though, i live and i'm healthy enough to do all the things i like. 
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Post by The Sonar Chicken on Jul 20, 2009 19:24:27 GMT
How to start? I know there's something wrong with my body and there always has been something off about it.  When I was a kid, my body temperature was so low, it was like touching a dead body(amazing how I managed to keep living). This may or may not have had to do with the copious amounts of cough mixture I was on. Then there's all the times I felt very faint and would've nearly passed out from pure giddiness. Seeing a ton of Normal, "Western" doctors never fixed that. They all thought I was: nuts in the head, dismissed it as something "silly" or if not, ignored me and concentrated on "things" they could fix. Well, until I saw a Traditional Chinese Doctor who told me that my eczema(poor skin conditions), asthma(very slight only) and poor blood circulation were all likely related. Then there was that run with that psychologist? Oh btw, I think 1 big problem why "psychologists" usually have such a bad rep is cos for really serious mental issues, 1 should see a psychiatrist instead. The latter has real training and likely sound experience with real issues, most psychologists are ehhh... |
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Post by Glance A'Lot on Jul 20, 2009 21:18:22 GMT
Oh btw, I think 1 big problem why "psychologists" usually have such a bad rep is cos for really serious mental issues, 1 should see a psychiatrist instead. The latter has real training and likely sound experience with real issues, most psychologists are ehhh...
You know the expression 'to build castles in the air' for someone who has 'visions'?
Well, to differentiate the psychological professions, remember:
- the psychologe builds castles;
- the psychoanalyst lives in them;
- the psychiatrist collects the rent.
;D
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Post by fughawzi on Jul 21, 2009 1:59:59 GMT
Sonar - Have you ever been checked for hypothyroidism? The poor blood circulation especially.. Also, have you found out if the eczema is allergy related or not?
Kitty - I didn't know you were an Aspie! I have lots of friends who are as well. I can't believe they told your mother that.. When people say things of that nature, I just get the overwhelming urge to hit them. I'm pretty sure I'm somewhere in the spectrum because I just have such a hard time functioning in basically every situation. So uncomfortable everywhere.
When I was 8, I was bitten by a dog and almost lost my left eye and front tooth. My mother took me to the emergency room and requested that they get a plastic surgeon to do the stitches, they refused. They said they were good enough. This angers me quite a lot because they messed up and part of me really wants to go after them so that they give me the money to fix my face. Of course my mother didn't push it, she was quite upset and just wanted me to get better.
I had knee surgery on both knees, one at ten and one at eleven, because of torn menisci. Apparently this is a very hard thing to do and I wasn't into any serious sports.. All doctors are weirded out by this information. Anyways, the surgeon went in and there was a huge amount of plica build up, which is another very strange thing for the age I was. I have no idea how people didn't realize something was up! Silly folk.
I have had really bad luck with psychiatry in the past as well. The psychologist I was seeing a few months ago was perfect because all the sessions consisted of was me ranting and her giving suggestions, really pushing towards me going back to school and the like. I actually had refused to see anyone for years before that because of how they screwed me up after my dog bite.. The psychologist I saw after my dog bite was ridiculous and I hated her. I actually was fine after it happened, wasn't scared of dogs or depressed or anything, my mother still has problems to this day. I didn't like the lady, so I really didn't talk much and just played with the toys, so she thought I was supremely depressed and forced me to go to a psychiatrist that put me on pretty strong antidepressants. I was nine. They severely changed my personality and I become a very depressed, self conscious child. I was really upset one time (Now, I believe it was some sort of panic attack) and the psychologist told my parents the best way to handle it would be to TIE ME UP and break things I liked until I calmed down. The antidepressants also made me suicidal, something I started trying to commit since I was 9 more times than I care to say. They tried so many different pills.. I took myself off of them when I was 12 and when we moved, I found a ton of pills that I had hid so I wouldn't have to take them.
Sorry, long rant. Ehh.
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Post by kitty on Jul 21, 2009 3:17:09 GMT
^ Stop saying sorry for rants! Rants RULLLLLE!
I'm not really an aspie... well at least, it isn't the dominant thing that makes me a nutcase. I was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, and just from the symptoms, I'm more a schizo...maybe an autistic schizo.. or something *does nutcase face*
@ Sonar - I dunno how it is over at your place but in Germany you can't actually go to a psychologist/therapist when you are diagnosed with a severe mental illness. The health insurance doesn't cover it and most psychologist are aware of their incompetence in such cases and won't take you anyway.
What sucks. With my diagnose I have to see a psychiatrist who does nothing but tell me "which symptom is prominent? Ah, I see, more ... {put in psychomed of choice}" and that's it. And if I dare to say how the symptoms effect my mood ("I'm unhappy... I don't want to continue like that.."), the doc won't ask me why or tell me what I could try to do but push a little button on his phone and voila - back in lunatic paradise! Wooot.....not.
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Post by Cat on Jul 21, 2009 10:33:16 GMT
Can we complain about the dentist? Because I HATE the dentist.
Most of you know this story. But I went to the dentist once, needed a crown, twas cool. He gave me anisthetic...that didn't work. I told him, but he said ''it'll be fine'' and continued. He then said he'd have to take the tooth out; okay I thought. He drilled for a bit, and whilst it was painful, I could live with it. But then the tooth shattered. In my gum. And he had to take the bits out, slowly, I told him I could still feel everything, so he gave me another syringe for of the anisthetic, still not working properly though. And hastily continued, he then cut open my gum, and then sort of fished around inside. I couldn't handle the pain. And started panicking majorly, he put me on the oxygen.
I just remember biting his finger really hard at one point and he said to me ''YOU'RE BITING MY FINGER''
So yeah
I hate dentists.
I also hate my doctor. And my therapist. But I won't go into that, yet. : D
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Post by kitty on Jul 22, 2009 3:57:35 GMT
^ Ouch! Jee |
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Post by Glance A'Lot on Jul 22, 2009 12:23:09 GMT
Dentists live from hand to mouth and go on my nerves...  |
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Post by Galadriel on Jul 22, 2009 17:57:29 GMT
How many of you have a personal psychiatrist? Seems like a lot of people need one, or at least had to deal with one in their lives. I hope I will never have to do with a shrink though, they're way of treating a patient freaks me out a bit 
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Post by fughawzi on Jul 22, 2009 23:22:20 GMT
Do you mean psychologist or psychiatrist? I know you said the latter, but a lot of people think they're the same thing and I wanted to check.
I was seeing one every week last year, but I cut back as soon as I started back at school and was around people again. I saw her really infrequently.. Went a couple months back and there wasn't much to talk about anymore, so I stopped. She was great and it wasn't like a normal therapy session, she talked to me about her stuff, too (Which probably isn't good, but most people do that so eh). I really like her enough to want to hang out outside of therapy, but she is so busy that it probably will never happen. How weird that I want to be friends with my ex psychologist? Haha. Never thought that would happen a couple years ago.
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Post by Cat on Jul 23, 2009 0:11:04 GMT
I had a someone once, who was a something, but I didn't like her and she couldn't help me. I stopped seeing her pretty quickly.
patronising...condescending...cow. :{
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Post by kitty on Jul 23, 2009 3:25:54 GMT
Do you mean psychologist or psychiatrist? I know you said the latter, but a lot of people think they're the same thing and I wanted to check. I was seeing one every week last year, but I cut back as soon as I started back at school and was around people again. I saw her really infrequently.. Went a couple months back and there wasn't much to talk about anymore, so I stopped. She was great and it wasn't like a normal therapy session, she talked to me about her stuff, too (Which probably isn't good, but most people do that so eh). I really like her enough to want to hang out outside of therapy, but she is so busy that it probably will never happen. How weird that I want to be friends with my ex psychologist? Haha. Never thought that would happen a couple years ago. Then she was either a very good therapist or did something majorly wrong, I hope she denies you to see her out of therapy! That would be equally wrong like students seeing their teachers in private (no offense Ash *hugs*) @ Gal - I think Ash's right, you might mix up psychiatrist and psychologist. A psychiatrist is a doctor that will see you and give you medicine, they usually care for severe mental illnesses and suicidal patients. A psychologist is not always a studied doctor (more often not) but is able to subscribe some medication (antidepressants, sleeping meds). He'll care for minor disorders, depression of the not-chronical type, breakdowns and the like. And then there are pure therapists which are similar to psychologists but won't subscribe any medication. They will do deepanalyzes ("tell me about your childhood!") or do behaviour therapy with you ("during the week, try to talk to at least one of your classmates"), people seeing a pure therapist have stress in their lives, worry too much, have power-and violence issues, have low selfesteem. And then you have specialized psychologist that don't do any therapy and essentially do not cure illnesses. Those can be psychologist for the discovery of giftness in children and adults, coaches for people that are gifted or highly gifted and need support in handling the situation, psychologist for schoolproblems (that's the one that sometimes get referred to as "helping teachers"), pure group-therapists, psychologists specialized in traumatherapy, psychologists specialized in the finding and documentation of eating disorders, psychologist specialized in research (they make studies, often work at univeristies) etc etc And then there is also the neurologist who will care for patients with neurological diseases like torette syndrome, retardness through a genedefect (mongolism etc), alzheimer, sometimes for medical research schizophrenia patients, patients with dissoziative disorder (multiply personality disorder) etc |
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Post by fughawzi on Jul 23, 2009 5:05:09 GMT
She was a very good therapist. Don't worry, not offended.. She isn't my therapist anymore and she acted a lot like my favourite grandma and was about the same age. I have "gross" relationships like that with people I shouldn't. I still keep in contact with my favourite teacher from middle school and will probably have dinner with him sometime soon. I don't mean gross in a remotely sexual way, but adults have always treated me like another adult and they really shouldn't, but that is how its always been.
Eh, my life is already weird.
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Post by Galadriel on Jul 23, 2009 15:58:04 GMT
Yeah I did meant a psychiatrist or a shrink not a psychologist, it seems that some people (not you guys here, but people I know) just like to talk about having to go to one because it looks trendy 
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When I was a kid, my body temperature was so low, it was like touching a dead body(amazing how I managed to keep living). This may or may not have had to do with the copious amounts of cough mixture I was on. 
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