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Hello, I am new but I did introduce myself in the 'Introduce Yourself' section a bit earlier.
It just annoys me about the way in which my Doctors talk to me. I mean I am grateful for my Rheumi Doc who is more friendly but with my GP it took me a very long time to get him to believe me about not feeling right. Everyone knows when there is something wrong because you know your body and I just knew. But it took me something like 4 months for the GP to believe me. Instead he said its just stress and it's 'in my head' because I'm having personal problems, which I found insulting. Then I started to get very bad bruises and would get extreme bruises for just kneeling on the floor. His reply to that was 'wear knee pads'.....who carries knee pads with them??? Finally after having a blood test he noticed a positive reading for ANA but said it my just be a 'fluke'. So I had to go again because he still didn't believe me.....and once again it came back positive. This time he sent me off to a Rheumy but he said 'you could just be one of those people with a positive ANA with no actual illness'.
Now with my Rheumy doc she also said 'you could just be one of those people that has hypermobile joints, which cause extra stress on the joints'...but I refuse to believe that because I knowwwww when I don't feel well....I know when something is wrong. So after all the hassle she said it was drug-induced Lupus but it got worse after 6 months of stopping the meds so now she says 'it could be' SLE. But she won't say if it is or not, which is also annoying.
I'm just annoyed at the current moment lol and needed to get that off my chest! Sorry for ranting!
It just annoys me about the way in which my Doctors talk to me. I mean I am grateful for my Rheumi Doc who is more friendly but with my GP it took me a very long time to get him to believe me about not feeling right. Everyone knows when there is something wrong because you know your body and I just knew. But it took me something like 4 months for the GP to believe me. Instead he said its just stress and it's 'in my head' because I'm having personal problems, which I found insulting. Then I started to get very bad bruises and would get extreme bruises for just kneeling on the floor. His reply to that was 'wear knee pads'.....who carries knee pads with them??? Finally after having a blood test he noticed a positive reading for ANA but said it my just be a 'fluke'. So I had to go again because he still didn't believe me.....and once again it came back positive. This time he sent me off to a Rheumy but he said 'you could just be one of those people with a positive ANA with no actual illness'.
Now with my Rheumy doc she also said 'you could just be one of those people that has hypermobile joints, which cause extra stress on the joints'...but I refuse to believe that because I knowwwww when I don't feel well....I know when something is wrong. So after all the hassle she said it was drug-induced Lupus but it got worse after 6 months of stopping the meds so now she says 'it could be' SLE. But she won't say if it is or not, which is also annoying.
I'm just annoyed at the current moment lol and needed to get that off my chest! Sorry for ranting!