I'm close to giving up on my health, nothing seems to work and the symptoms are just getting worse. I feel like an asshole commenting or blogging about these health issues sometimes but I have no one to talk to about it all IRL.
The gastroenterologist has written me off after the last treatment didn't work and friends and family are fed up with hearing about it as it has been going on so long.
It's discouraging when a doctor fails to behave properly. I had a student many years ago who was about 13 or 14. She was being treated for a psychiatric illness. That's how she ended up in my school. It was believed she was afflicted with a psychosomatic ailment that crippled her. It turned out, after years of being written off as imagining symptoms, she was actually ill. She had a difficult-to-diagnose, rare gastrointestinal affliction. Once this was treated properly, her physical symptoms disappeared. Of course, psychologically, she would forever be affected by those years of misdiagnosis and placement in psychiatric institutions.
So, just because a doctor says you're not sick...that means they can't find out what's wrong. Their failure, not yours.
Keep plugging. Anytime you want to talk, or unburden, I'm available.
Sometimes, doctors are not enough. Medicine is an art, an imperfect art that lacks essential tools.
Hope you feel better today. Keep writing and keep smiling...just read an article about how the act of smiling actually helps mood. I'm running around with a silly grin on my face today :)
Keep plugging. Anytime you want to talk, or unburden, I'm available.
Thanks 🤗
I'm thinking of finding a different doctor/specialist but it will take research and time to force it through with the NHS. Be worth it in the long term though.
Thanks for your encouragement, you're right I've got to push on, split some heads and kick up a fuss 👍
I'm close to giving up on my health, nothing seems to work and the symptoms are just getting worse. I feel like an asshole commenting or blogging about these health issues sometimes but I have no one to talk to about it all IRL.
The gastroenterologist has written me off after the last treatment didn't work and friends and family are fed up with hearing about it as it has been going on so long.
Kinda at my wits end with it tbh.
It's discouraging when a doctor fails to behave properly. I had a student many years ago who was about 13 or 14. She was being treated for a psychiatric illness. That's how she ended up in my school. It was believed she was afflicted with a psychosomatic ailment that crippled her. It turned out, after years of being written off as imagining symptoms, she was actually ill. She had a difficult-to-diagnose, rare gastrointestinal affliction. Once this was treated properly, her physical symptoms disappeared. Of course, psychologically, she would forever be affected by those years of misdiagnosis and placement in psychiatric institutions.
So, just because a doctor says you're not sick...that means they can't find out what's wrong. Their failure, not yours.
Keep plugging. Anytime you want to talk, or unburden, I'm available.
Sometimes, doctors are not enough. Medicine is an art, an imperfect art that lacks essential tools.
Hope you feel better today. Keep writing and keep smiling...just read an article about how the act of smiling actually helps mood. I'm running around with a silly grin on my face today :)
Thanks 🤗
I'm thinking of finding a different doctor/specialist but it will take research and time to force it through with the NHS. Be worth it in the long term though.
Thanks for your encouragement, you're right I've got to push on, split some heads and kick up a fuss 👍
You can never give up on yourself. Doctors go home and night and don't think about you at all. It's not up to them. Fight for yourself.