General Health Conditions/Issues

Hello,

Don't mind me much, it's just figuretively there's STEAM comming from my ears, nose, and mouth. Yesterday after my Social Security hearing I went to the V.A. Health Clinic where I've been getting health care steadyly since Aug, 2002. I will be repeating myself here at Disaboom, oh well. I wrote about this matter in that subject about Fibroyglia pain. I seen a rheumy doc in 2005 or in 2006 and this doc there at this same clinic and I think he still works there, told me I have this fibro stuff. Yet yesterday my primary care doc said there's no such record on file for me regarding this. Either that rhemy doc never wrote about this on the computer there at the clinic, my primary care overlooked that info, or this was deleted. I made this appt. to tell my primary care doc that I have had this pain on the outside and inside of my left wrist that was concern to me. The pain level has decreased since the onset of this around June first, but is still there. After I was there and discussed this matter, this now view I have of him is that he is a jackass because he twisted my wrist to bring on more pain. Oh he said there's no swelling going on. Yeah but still I have pain there and other places in the bones and muscles, etc.

Time is up, and no time to write about those "other bozos'"

gary

Last year, leading up to my amputation, I was chatting with my specialists. My neurology specialist told me of four medications I should NOT take. I get settled into my room. My floor resident, a 4th year know-it-all little queen, prescribed ALL FOUR meds I should not take. Next day she comes STORMING into my room questioning my audacity to refuse her prescriptions. I told her I didn't want to die. I then explained why I refused her godlike prescriptions. My neurology guy was the chief of neurology. I never saw her again. All patients have the right to refuse a medication or treatment. Don't let some idiot treat you badly because "they're the doctor" or nurse.  

 Diagnosed with Chicken Pox when I knew I had an EAR INFECTION and told them, lol. Just because have never had any childhood diseases guess they were trying to get it out of the way before I was 40?

  Promptly went to another Dr that same day, one look in my ears and .... ear infection. The first Dr reimbursed me my money. Second Dr was ... speechless.  

 Hey Tony see your still about here. Anyway I stop by time to time but I always have found it pretty useful toget to know the nurses because they are the ones that really are more up on what is going on then any Doctor. VA what can I say other then I've avoided them a long long time with success. But really want to put a big in any doctors ear better talk to his staff of nurses they are the ones that are covering for all the stuff going on they are well to busy being doctors to learn about.

 Hey desan,

 Hope you have been having a good summer. You are so right and a great tip. The nurses often do know more about what is going on and many times gently "guide" the Dr's.

 Good to see you here. I have been away for a little while but like you drop in from time to time, things permitting.

 Tony  

I call her the Neuro Bitch.  When I said "I'm getting mixed messages here...some say my spinal cord is bruised and swollen..others say it is severed..."   She said the only way they would know if it was severed is if they cut me open and looked.  I said "But the MRI image showed"  and she said "MRI images are not reliable"   Then why do they put people thru that torture?  She said "What difference does it make...your injury is complete...you are never going to walk again"  And left in a huff that she had to deal with my petty problem. 

 

I'm thinking of stalking her when I get a power chair....

Hello,

I wrote this topic last Friday and here it is Wednesday already yet I didn't finished to write what is stored in that computer bank other known as my brain.

This topic is what transpired a week ago today in the afternoon there at the V.A. clinic. After I got back to my apartment last Wednesday, the wifee' told me what happened to her that very same day. She was experiencing pain very bad in her inner right thigh for a number of days. She has Diabeetes Type 2 and my logic understanding is that this had to do with her Diabeetes. Well the pain was so bad that she went to the emergency at one of the hospitals in this area. She had a M.R.I. or Ct-scan done and this turned up negative for a problem. So she call the health clinic where she goes to (this is a non V.A. Health Clinic where I used to go myself in late 2001 to June 2002) and they gave her a appointment for this last Wednesday as I stated here today. Anyway, this BOZO doctor told her, "if you go to emergency again, I won't be your doctor no more". DUHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!! What happenes if she has a heart attack because of this Diabeetes she has or what is called Diabetic Shock. The prescription she got from the emergency at the hospital for Vicodin, the narcotic pain killer, wasn't being effective for awhile. That's how bad the pain was at the time.

Long time ago back in the summer, 2002; I seen a pulmonary (lung) doc at Ann Arbor V.A. Hospital, MI and this MORON was rude to me. He may be still is there, I don't know if that is the case. My report card on him is a D-. I seen DR. Beck & Dr. Christiansen since this MORON. These two were alot better. Majority of time was this later doc and I give him a A. My primary care doc I have now, I originally gave him a B, but now is down graded to a C-. He is the same one I seen last Wednesday. The head neurologist I seen down at Ann Arbor facility I gave him a B. My old "fart" primary care doc (he retired in 2007) is grade varied from a D+ to a C+.

Unrelated to my story here but is to this topic in a general sense is of the following. I heard before that some people in the U.S. have told them that this Sarcoidosis that I was diagnois of having is a "black persons' disease". Stupid, stupid, stupid. Yes the majority of these Sarcoidosis cases in the U.S. are of a black person or a african american person, but that is just the nature of this beast. This Sarcoidosis has people of majority of the ethic peoples worldwide. Sweden has highest amount of cases worldwide for one country, yet the majority of the people there in Sweden are caucian/white.

Morethanable, sorry to hear that you had to have an amputation. Yeah all doctors and nurses "are not necessary all there".

Desan, you getting health care through the V.A.? If so, where?

Mcjane, get "ground to ground" missle launcher with that power chair!!!!!!!!! Ha! Ha! Ha!

gary

Tell me about it. I had an accident about 2 years ago and I knew there was something terribly wrong with me. I had numbness down the left side of my body, electrical shocks, stabbing pain you name it. the first woman I saw decided I had epilepsy because I was LIGHT SENSITIVE. isn't everyone? and since I had never had a seziure or anything close to it so she sticks me on really high dosed of eleptic meds, which made me crazy and severely depressed after 2 weeks of that I weaned myself off of it. then for a while i had a neurologist who was okay with doing absolutely nothing for me at all for pain. or even telling me whats happening. she was just content to have me keep "waiting another 6 months" forever. and the orthos would only say they couldn't do surgery, and "had and idea" of what was going on "but couldn't say, because they weren't sure" someone finally sends me to pain management. turns out ive been going around with a spinal cord injury for 2 years. with destroyed joints in my neck and low back. nice of them to tell me right? part of me thinks they just didn't want to tell a 20 year old kid her life was going to change. but what was that going to do for me, only to let me suffer even longer. but i think they knew the whole time. thankfully I'm getting great help now and am seeing the right people who can help me, but it still angers and upsets me to no end that no one could man up and just say it.