dancingwithfibro
Distinguished member
- Joined
- Jul 27, 2015
- Messages
- 112
- Reason
- DX FIBRO
- Diagnosis
- 02/2014
- Country
- US
- State
- HI
So I just moved to a new location which meant that I had to find a whole new set of doctors and it has been painful, a different kind of pain from the flu-like achy all over electric nerves on fire whole body pain. This is more the - want to pull my hair out, scream, be belligerent but biting my tongue for the love of gawd kind of pain. I think many of us come across these situations with doctors and I thought maybe we could share them here to vent the nonesense, insensitivity, incompetence we deal with.
A few days ago I went to see my PCP for the third time after we've done a lot of blood work to find..nothing substantial. I addressed my concerns about having severe chronic fatigue for the past few months and asked her if I might have CFS. Her response, "I don't believe in labels. I don't believe in labeling things like CFS and Fibromyalgia. I think there is a reason for all your symptoms, have you considered seeing a behavioral therapist here?"
OK, wtf are you suggesting? Just because you can't figure out why I'm having all these symptoms doesn't mean that the root cause of all these symptoms are psychological. If you don't know, you simply don't know, just own it, don't blame the condition on your patient! Ugh. Sorry, just gets me so mad when doctors lack integrity.
A few days ago I went to see my PCP for the third time after we've done a lot of blood work to find..nothing substantial. I addressed my concerns about having severe chronic fatigue for the past few months and asked her if I might have CFS. Her response, "I don't believe in labels. I don't believe in labeling things like CFS and Fibromyalgia. I think there is a reason for all your symptoms, have you considered seeing a behavioral therapist here?"
OK, wtf are you suggesting? Just because you can't figure out why I'm having all these symptoms doesn't mean that the root cause of all these symptoms are psychological. If you don't know, you simply don't know, just own it, don't blame the condition on your patient! Ugh. Sorry, just gets me so mad when doctors lack integrity.