A rough end to a rough week

[cornerofmadness]

You know I'll defend medicine/doctors tooth and nail EXCEPT when they exhibit asshole behavior. Once I get through my testing I'm finding a different new cardiologist. the one I met today didn't listen to me. rolled his eyes at me and then berated me and my other doctors.

So why are you here? I explain that I've been coughing and while I think I'm coughing down the hiatal hernia, my GP suggested it might be me internally massaging aFib into rhythm. He literally rolled his eyes and I knew it was on. He then basically went on attack WHY are you still on blood thinner 5 years after your accident. You should have been taken off these years ago.

Well I have a stent.

yes but that's old school giving plavix for it. Yes I guess it's been a while since I wrote for that drug for MY patients (i.e. you're talking to another doctor in case you didn't bother to look) I had to say several times that I will ask my vascular surgeon about it in a few weeks. i.e. I'm not switch my care to you but yes I'll take that drug name and ask him (seriously if I could be off the blood thinners I'd be thrilled).

So again why are you here? Because of what I already told you and I'm tachycardic (my heart rate it too high) and has been for years because we thought it was compensation for my very low blood pressure. And in the last year I've gained 10 pounds (for no real reason) and my pressure has gone high 140-150. I thought it was the wellbutrin but going off hasn't helped.

You're diabetic WHY aren't you on statins and ace inhibitors. Ace inhibitors save kidneys! (said in an affronted tone like he'd like to throw down with my endocrinologist)

Did you NOT hear me? I have had low blood pressure. If you put me on an ace inhibitor I'd pass out. (We are trying one now because he wouldn't shut up and my pressure has been high)

You need to be on a statin. No, my family doesn't tolerate them. I've tried. muscle pain, fuck that. I'd rather try adjusting my diet/exercise. He scoffs you're at 110. So? Well the NEW number is 70. (Don't get me started on the fact that the only ones doing drug research are pharm companies with a vested interest in lower numbers to sell more pills).

Finally he stops harping on my other doctors and my unwillingness to try a battery of new meds (one, dude, let's start with one) and decided I need an echocardiogram. Agreed. Your last one was 2017 (said in a tone that said he was shocked I had one because he hasn't been fucking listening to me about the tachycardia, low pressure and heart zoomies in the middle of the night) and I'm like really and holy hell how is that nearly a decade ago and not last year?

You need to take your blood pressure 3 times a day and we'll give you a log.

And you need to be on a Holter monitor which is what I was hoping for. He fucks off to go be a ray of sunshine with someone else and the nurse comes in with the Holter monitor and tells me I need to return in two months (which I bargain down to about 6 weeks because I'll be traveling by then). I'm used to Holter monitors being 72 hours. Not this time. 1 month. ONE month! 'it gives us more info' True. 'if nothing is happening we'll call you in 2 weeks and you can take it off then but if something is wrong' Sounds great.

She shows me two placements (straight between the boobs, across the left boob) she goes left and now the fucking monitor jabs me in the tit every time I move my left arm. I don't have enough glue pads to take it off just yet. Also it has its own little phone that records and sends it to the hospital too but now I have to carry my phone, this phone AND the dexcom reader. I need a wee purse for all this crap.

So once all this is done and if it finds anything seriously wrong (according to him my heart beat was irregular via ascultation) I will find someone else. I can not imagine staying in this dude's care. And that is something I highly encourage everyone to do. If you can (not everyone can) if you don't like your doc get a second opinion. There is never a need to stay with someone you don't like (within reason like my insurance, I don't know if it'll pay for Marshal U's docs in WV but I am going to look into it. I have found teaching hospital doctors to be a bit nicer).


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Enter the Sixth Ranger Hazbin Hotel

Home No More Torchwood

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Rain, Games, and Ferrets Fire Emblem: Fuukasetsugetsu | Fire Emblem: Three HousesFire Emblem Musou: Fuukasetsugetsu | Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes

the little bird that got away 陈情令 | The Untamed

Being Green Torchwood

The Most Important, Bejeweled, Gold Tipped Cog Hazbin Hotel

pinned and mounted (wings) Hazbin Hotel


Better than Tons of Gold and Cases of Diamonds
Le Comte de Monte-Cristo | Count of Monte Cristo


the Love Songs of the Urban Borahae Bird 방탄소년단 | Bangtan Boys | BTS


Secrets in the Shadows Hazbin Hotel

Comments

[angelofthenorth]

That sounds like one effed up doctor

[cornerofmadness]

I think in his head he is 'protecting' me from others not doing their job right (or he's paranoid of being sued if I have a heart attack and someone asks WHY wasn't she on these preventive meds)

[aien_hime]

Aw sorry about that dear. He sounds like an ass. Hope you can find someone else.

[cornerofmadness]

thanks. I'll worry about it if there is something seriously wrong with me. Otherwise, I'll just flip it all back to my general prac. doc who I adore

[kitarella_imagines]

Gosh I hate doctors who act like that. Acting like it is a court case and we have to defend our actions to a prosecutor.

[cornerofmadness]

Me too. I hope I was never like this to MY patients. I don't think I was but who knows how they perceived me

[kitarella_imagines]

It's hard to know. We can say the same thing to different people and they perceive it differently.

Communication is so difficult.

[ashelterofpages]

That....that doctor sounds like so much. Good grief, why are people like this?

[suzume]

He sounds like an absolute asshole.

[cornerofmadness]

Pretty much. I'll be shopping around for others

[suzume]

Ugh, you must!

[cornerofmadness]

it's my crap insurance stopping me

[suzume]

Augh, no, not the bad insurance! ;_;

[cornerofmadness]

someone else was complaining about that in public today (and she works with the local hospital so even they have shit insurance)

[suzume]

Oh, no, not them too?! ;_;

[cornerofmadness]

At this point it's nearly everyone

[suzume]

;_;

[dr_zook]

Good luck finding a better cardiologist (in case you're allowed, good lord, your insurance system is so fucked up, I'm really sorry)!! Having a decent GP is worth so much, isn't it?

I have found teaching hospital doctors to be a bit nicer. - Me too! They're definitely fresher and not as jaded as their older colleagues. ;)

[cornerofmadness]

thanks. Yeah our system is broken and I say that as someone who has worked with in it

[shanachie_quill]

Does your phone not support the Dexcom app? Because I find that a whole lot easier.

[cornerofmadness]

it does not unfortunately

[barbaratp]

Eu fiz Holter uma vez, de 24 horas. Foi horrível. Experiência nada agradável porque era jovem e ninguém respeitou eu usando o aparelho. Não me deram preferência para sentar no ônibus (ele quase quebrou por causa disso), trabalhei o dobro carregando aquela coisa em mim. A única boa sorte foi ter tido uma crise com ele ligado em mim o que auxiliou um pouco a me diagnosticar, infelizmente fui atendida por péssimos profissionais após isso que me deixaram sequelas. Um cardio fajuto que me deu um remédio que me levou a uma magreza extrema, pesava 52 e cheguei aos 36 quilos. Além de uma enfermeira que deixou o remédio entrar no músculo e não na veia, queimando meu braço por dentro me deixando com restrições de movimento e firmeza do lado esquerdo do braço. Um horror.

Sim médicos horríveis são uma coisa dura de se conviver. Eles só gostam de pacientes obedientes que os tratam como deuses e seguem tudo que dizem. Se você discorda de algo passam a ser agressivos.

[cornerofmadness]

oh wow, so sorry you went through all that, it's awful.

Some doctors are definitely like that. I worked with some of them and often ended up in verbal matches with them at meetings because of it

[barbaratp]

Eu tenho deixado de lado esse tipo de coisa o máximo possível. Eles não vão mudar nunca e o melhor a fazer é seguir em frente. Mas obrigada por se importar.

[cornerofmadness]

that is unfortunate