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I had fever, sweats and joint/muscle pain that responds dramatically to antibiotic, i.e. symptoms resolve after 24-48 hours on antibiotic and return after 1-2 weeks of stopping the antibiotic. I also have swelling, twitching, history of bullseye rash, tested positive for exposure to co-infections, heart valve damage, meningitis, cranial nerve palsy, and every single other symptom of lyme disease, all of these confirmed by neurologists and other specialists.
I was told it could be "drug fever" me: Isn't drug fever the opposite, i.e. the person gets worse with antibiotic and gets better when going off?
Another explanation was the antibiotics were causing an anti-inflammatory effect. me:If that were true, wouldn't steroids work better? Steroids cause the fever to spike and worsening of the condition, doesn't that indicate infection?
I have also been misdiagnosed with MS, ALS, dystonia, myasthenia, chronic pain syndrome (which I may still have) CFS, FMS, bechet's, autonomic dysfunction, congestive heart failure, aseptic meningitis, need I go on?
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I saw a neurologist becuase I was having heart palpiations, muscle spasms & twitches, fatigue, insomnia, vivid dreams, headaches, shooting pains, numbness and tingling, unexplained fevers, sensitivity to light.. the lsit goes on and on...
Anyways, I told the lady that I had been doing research and though I had lyme disease and had been trying to tell doctors for the past year and nobody would ever test me.
She then replied, "You have anxiety problems. You are alert & oriented and I see no signs of neurological distress. You complain that you have hundreds of muscle twitches a day and I have not seen one since you have been here. I will run a lyme test only because I think that telling you that you do not have lyme will not suffice."
This lady did not schedule a follow up consult and when I called to get the results she was very rude to me on the phone. She also told me I tested negative for Lyme disease. When I went to the hospital to get all of my medical records I saw that she never even ran a Lyme test on me. When a lyme test was finally run 2 months later I was positive.
Gotta love those doctors!
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I think some of these docs do really know about Lyme and coinfections and are not talking about it because the cost of treatment will be too high for insurance companies to cover, as well as treatment being complicated and they don't want to bother.
I said as much to one rheum who tried to undiagnose me, that insurance companies were behind all this. He walked out saying he was going to write a letter to my doctor. I said, so am I. And I got there first with my letter. Needless to say, I changed all my doctors.
Personally, I think it's time for them to lose their licenses until they're willing to recognize, adequately test for and adequately treat Lyme and co's for the spreading plagues that they are.
Btw, anyone can go to www.ratemds.com and rate a doctor publicly. I have rated both wonderful doctors and ducks.
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I was told by the rheumy too much medical knowledge can be dangerous.
He refused to give me my previous fibro pain med (Vicoprofen) saying he doesn't like to give out narcotics.
He told me I need to quit smoking and get more exercise.
I told him I stopped taking the Mobic because it wasn't helping and it's similar to Viox which is off the shelves. He then wanted to increase it to twice a day.
I said it's a COX 2 inhibitor, and he says it's not (actually it is considered a COX 2 inhibitor in other countries, but not in the US!!) and when I said everyone dies in my family from heart attacks, and I'd rather not take it, he smiled and said everyone dies from heart attacks.
Um.. and this means ....what? Um...excuse me but I would prefer not to die from a heart attack (I am 50) from a drug that doesn't even work (I am taking the generic which I have heard is not for some reason as beneficial as the Brand name, Mobic).
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I chased a diagnosis for more than 20 years. In that time I was given lots of labels with "syndrome" and/or "idiopathic" attached to them. Just a few weeks ago I was finally diagnosed with lyme, as well as a few other complications.
In all that time, doctors have said a lot of stupid things to me. The most absurd statement that immediately comes to mind is this one:
About a year ago I went to (yet another) neurologist because of rather severe neurological symptoms. My regular doctor had suggested I see him to get an MRI of my brain. The neurologist told me he didn't want to do an MRI because he didn't want to "look for trouble". I was so stunned that I was speechless.
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Oh I forgot! I showed him the slight droop in my right eye lid that I never had before. He said he was going to test my thyroid because my eyes were big. I said 'every doctor tests me because my eyes are big...everyone in my family has big eyes.'
'But I see some swelling there." he said.
The tests came back normal thyroid. He never mentioned what he thought the drooping eyelid and swelling were THEN!
I should have asked him at that point, what he thought it was NOW that the tests were negative, but I didn't. I had forgotten why he had originally taken the tests and in my mind I had vowed to never go back.
I had almost forgotten he had taken tests, and he had finally mentioned at the end of the visit they were normal. I had put them out of my mind because he tested in addition to the thryoid...stupid things... Vite D, Fifth's disease (I am 50 years old) ... If he was ruling out something and they were negative, what was it then?
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I went to a neurologist after years of increasing balance problems, memory problems, trouble with comprehension, failure to recognize faces and many other neuro issues.
On the written history form I wrote that I do not drink. During the oral history I answered that I do not drink.
His advice to me after a 5 minute exam: "Cut down on your drinking."(!!!)
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after my gym found a tick in my belly button that was not tested for lymes or any other disease. She told me that lymes test are like pregancy test you ether are or your not.
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after my gym found a tick in my belly button that was not tested for lymes or any other disease. She told me that lymes test are like pregancy test you ether are or your not.
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I went to an Infectious Disease Dr. and when I told him I was certain I had Lyme he said, "Lyme disease? You think you have Lyme disease?! Do you know how rare that is? It's hardly heard of in the north, and we don't have it at all in the south! And let me tell you girly (yes, he called me girly)if you THINK that's your problem, then you are waay out there and I can't help you."
I replied, "No you can't!" and walked out.
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My first Lyme symptom 27 years ago was a sudden sharp stabbing pain under my right should blade that began in a Statistics class in college and never went away.
I'd be rich if I had a dollar for every doctor, counselor and health practitioner who asked "And how did you FEEL about that statistics class?" (I got a "A")
My daughter: I took her to a neurologist who said in one breath that someone her age (13) shouldn't be on Zoloft because it was a "strong" medication and in the next breath blamed her severely tremoring legs on "anxiety"
Marla
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I was going numb all over on my left side (including inside my throat) so I made an early appointment w/my neuro and he told me:
"Don't come back early for your next appointment unless you lose the use of a limb, or go numb from the waist down"
When I finally go back my CDC positive IgeneX results that I had my GP order and brought them w/me to my next appointment and told him that I finally knew what was wrong with me he said:
"You don't have lyme (as he is waving the paper around in his hands), you don't WANT to have lyme, from what I hear it is really BAD!"
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I was explaining to a doctor (not my llmd, clearly) how over a year of high-dose antbiotics had helped: my crushing fatigue was gone, along with horrible joint and muscle pain, facial numbness, uncontrollable tremors, brain fog, inability to stand, and daily chest pains. I said how grateful I was that long-term abx had saved my life, and although all my symptoms were not completely gone, I was still getting better, had not had problems with the abx, and before starting treatment felt like I was dying.
The doctor then said, "Yes, but do you have any objective symptoms and evidence? Without objective evidence you shouldn't be taking abx."
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One visit with my PCP several years ago: I was having horrible ear aches and wanted her to have a look.
She said my ears looked just fine. I said that I thought lyme or certain abx could cause ear pain.
She rolled her eyes, looked at her watch and said "go home and take some Tylenol."
Fast forward to a few months ago. I needed a form signed by PCP to cancel some travel plans.
She said "why would I put my medical license on the line because you don't feel like going on a trip?"
I said "because I don't feel well."
She rifled through my file and said "well, this Igenex thing, we just don't like that lab and this Doctors Data heavy metals test, I've never seen any blood work on you that shows heavy metals".
"I suggest you stop eating food you are probably allergic too (I did years ago) and this will all go away."
"Take the trip, it might be good for you."
Maybe that's sufficient for her medical license to be on the line!
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Sitting in the drs office one day with muscle spasims, chest pains, extreme fatigue, etc.
I told the doctor what my complaints were that day. After looking in my chart for awhile she said that all the tests i've had in the past were all normal.
my muscle spasms were from stress and I should go get a really good massage.
My chest pains couldn't be explained so she told me not to worry because if it was cancer it wouldn't hurt.
I had just had a friend die from cancer and it hurt him all the time.
For fatigue, quit my job and find something easier.
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After showing my GP my positive Igenex of Babesia "Babesia? hmmm I don't know what that is, but I don't think you have it"
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"YOU DO NOT HAVE LYME DISEASE PAULINE"... "no need to test"... and "come back when you have a babysitter and I can examine you". Then he passed me a bottle of Paxil.
When I DID get tested positive a month later after I ended up in the hospital deathly ill, I wrote a big, long letter to that practice!
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I went to see a neurologist because my left side (face, arm, leg, foot...) had gone numb. I had a long list of other neurological symptoms.
His only theory was that they were probably the manifestation of some mediumnic/channeling powers my body was trying to block. I could not believe it!
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I went to a neuro who did not perform a neuro exam on me... instead he took a phone call during my visit. He never touched me. He sent me to another room to have some nurse perform an EEG (she ALSO took a phone call during my EEG)
I was told to come back in a month. When I came back I asked why I never got an exam .... And the doctor tried to convince me that I HAD had an exam but that I just couldn't REMEMBER!
I got my files..and sure enough, he had made up exam findings. He said my babinski test was normal... uh.. my shoes never left my feet so how do you know that?
Said my reflexes were normal (I went to a new Neuro three days later who found me to have very hyper reflexes)
The list goes on. Outrageous that he tried to convince me that he'd done an exam, Outrageous that he made up exam findings, Outrageous that the B**tard still has his license.
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Hi All
This is a Really good thread and someone should make a Book out of it- Seriously -
When you read these posts make sure to notice that Very Few of these people are posting here Any More - they have gotten well and moved on with there lives --
You Too Will get Better and Get Your Life back -
The post about the Cheese is Priceless -Jay-
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We went to a regular doctor a few days ago, before switching doctors.
The first doctor said. "Go home. All you have is a simple virus. You will be fine in 3 days."
In three days, we went to a much better doctor. This new doctor took a bright light pointed to all the red rashes and he said "This is obviously disseminated lyme."
He thinks the first doctor is nuts.
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Well, since the conventional docs labeled me a "complex IBS case" a few years ago, their reply to everything is:
"Well, you're just constipated"
I tell them that I've got severe pain in my ribcage, and sometimes I can barely breathe.
"You're just constipated"
I tell them that I'm dizzy and my heart rate drops really low at night, and I'm really short of breath.
"It's probably just the constipation. You're just backed up."
I go to the ER and tell them that my heart is racing, I feel really weak, I can barely stand. It feels like my spleen is super swollen. I've also had diarrhea a few times.
"It's probably because you're constipated"
But I've had diarrhea?
"Yea, that happens sometimes when you're really constipated"
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Groovy said:
quote:This is a Really good thread and someone should make a Book out of it- Seriously -
When my daughter was starting treatment and herxing out of her mind, I printed off this entire thread, put it in a binder, and we would take turns reading it.
It helped us deal with previous years of being jacked around by "specialists"
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My 1st MD ask how my home life was and if I had been sexually abused. He also said Lyme is not in Alabama.
The 2nd doctor would not even address all of my symptoms. He said we can only look at 2 symptoms. Then he pulled out a medical dictionary and read Lyme word for word and said you don't fit the text book description.
Everyone is different and has different symptoms. They don't want to admit that the patient knows more than them.
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"You don't have edema, you are just fat! Don't come back until you have been on the Southbeach diet for 2 weeks."
When I promptly replaced her she "failed" to mail my records to new doctor. I turned her in to the Texas Medical Board, copied her Association and picked them up personally.
She didn't succeed in treating me like I was nothing! I got my records.
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Yalie shrink turned energy worker "There is no such thing as Lyme disease it is just something people invented and friends tell friends about and then they get it too. I don't want to hear anymore of your Lyme dogma."
He interned at Stanford. He still had the price tag on this plastic grapes draped above the armoire in his office in his zillion dollar fake Tuscan home in the hills. He use to be an emergency room duck.
I stopped payment on his check and wrote him a letter spelling out exactly why. He took it well because he knew he had been abusive.
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After having been very sick for over a year, back in '97 when Lyme was really not well known here in OH, a doctor told me (after injecting myself with things he made for a few months, to this day I don't know what they were, I was desperate), "You have Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and since these injections haven't worked, you will be like this for the rest of your life."
I was 19 years old, I went home and cried for days.
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From a neurologist who had (mis)diagnosed me with MS:
"Until you begin to spiritually heal others, you will not heal yourself."
This from a neurologist to a neurology patient, in a neurology practice.
She then told me that she is a medical intuitive as well, and proceeded to try to sell me a painting from the wall of her office, and to convince me to take reiki lessons from her on the side.
At that point, I got smart and found an LLMD.
After 3+ years of treatment, no more MS symptoms and no more MS diagnosis.
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Mine is hilarious:
I had 6 Brain SPECT scans done. Every single one was abnormal. In 2004, my Brain SPECT scan said:
"Cerebral Cortical perfusion ranging from 50% to 70% of max perfusion seen in RT frontal, temporal region, left frontal and parietal regions.
Heterogeneous cerebral cortical perfusion suggesting widespread process such as a micro vascular, infectious, or encephalopathic process rather than large vessel or classic degenerative dementing process."
I was hospitalized in early 2005. I had all my medical records with me. The Infectious Disease specialist came in, and told me "You don't have Lyme Disease."
I said "Dr. _____________ said that I do, and it's supported by 1 psychologist, 1 psychiatrist, 1 infectious disease specialist.
He said "We tested you, it was negative." I said "Testing for borrelia is inadequate, I'm well aware of this fact, and you should be too given the abundant studies available on the public medical database -- Seronegative ELISA and Western Blots."
He said, well that may be, but you don't have Lyme.
I said, well I was bitten by a tick at age 9, I've been sick since, that was 1987. I have a history compatible with the disease, I'm responding to treatment, I have bands showing up on the test, although circumstantial evidence, and I have 6 brain SPECT scans indicating global hypoperfusion and vasculitis."
He says "Let me see them, I'm going to consult the Neurologist overseeing your case." I show him and he reads what you read above, and you know what he said?
"This test isn't yours. Me and the Neurologist agree. You wouldn't be able to talk to us, this is the test of a 90 year old man with severe Dementia, neither of which are you. -- It's a lab error if it isn't yours."
So I say, well I have 6 of them, done at more than one facility. Farmington UCONN, UMASS Memorial, Western Baystate." Are you telling me they're all incompetent or that their equipment is all faulty?
He said "Well I don't know, but these obviously aren't your tests, someone gave you the wrong charts."
He then said "I know your Lyme Disease specialist, him and I worked together for many years -- over 25 years in-fact we've known each other. He's incompetent and a quack. He likes to take a lot of vacations out on his Yhat on weekends. That's what he's doing with your money."
I don't pay him. Medicare does. Medicare has investigated him and found him competent in treating me, and I reviewed his malpractice history. He hasn't had one malpractice suit, nor been brought before any medical board at any point, so I think the burden of proof belongs to you. Additionally, He works 6 days a week, has over 10,000 patients, and he doesn't own a yacht, and It's not very professional to talk about a fellow doctor as you have. I'd recommend that if you two have disagreements, that you two work it out, it's not my problem.
He tried to talk over me, but my family was there and they told him it was time for him to leave. He walked out and he was ****ed. What a ****in' moron.
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I was told by my PCP that I was the healthiest looking sick person he knew.
I had empty nest syndrome (my sons had been on their own in college for years already)
That it was because my husband worked nights and I was alone
The best one is that I was bored and needed a vacation..hey I would have loved to go away on a trip if only I wasn't so sick!
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What a great thread.
I really needed to hear how much they make as*()(*)(*_ses out of themselves.
Yes, a book is a must.
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When my daughter first got sick, we printed out this entire thread and put it in a binder.
We would read it on days we needed encouragement to deal with the crappy years of seeing doctors who diagnosed her with one syndrome after another.
It's amazing what doctors feel they can say to a patient. Just because they can pass a test, doesn't mean they should be in practice.
We have had more than one doctor lately say, "you must have brucillis, not bartonella"
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I saw this thread while searching for something else. It gave some good laughs. I thought it would be fun to circulate again.
One of my severe symptoms is light sensitivity and very Sound Sensitive. Any light caused severe pain in my head and Migraines
Doctor told me to go to the beach every day. Start by going 5 min. a day, than 10, etc. and soon I'll be able to go anywhere.
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1) "No, I won't test for Lyme. We don't have those ticks here." (Um, yes, we do. And I just moved here from Northern CA and went to college in western MA!)
2) MD: "Are you pregnant?"
Me: "No. In order to get pregnant, I'd have to have sex. I haven't felt well enough for sex in months. No sex, no baby."
MD: "I'm ordering a pregnancy test."
3) "You have CFS. CFS is exactly the same thing as chronic EBV. You should feel better in two to three years. Check back with me in a few months."
4) From a yoga teacher, with no medical training:
I was sick because: 1) I don't eat meat. 2) I have bad karma.
And eating dead animals is supposed to give me better karma? Riiiiiiight....
5) MD: "You have low ferritin." (Ferritin levels test out fine.) "Well, it's probably still low ferritin because you don't eat meat."
Me: "But the test showed my ferritin is normal. In fact, all of my labs are perfectly normal. And I've been vegan for five years, and only now am sick."
MD: "Let's give it a few more months. Come back then."
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I agree with a previous responder. Those with horror stories should add their opinions to www.ratemds.com. You don't need to join up or recieve spam or anything. Just fill out a simple evaluation after you find the correct doctor.
The only way some will learn is if they lose business or are admonished publically. Information can be a great equalizer. All patients deserve basic decency and an empathetic experience. Unbelieveable what some of these stories are.
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one of my doctors asked, How much money do you have???
I was like UGH.............. Posts: 208 | From Hudson Valley, New York | Registered: Mar 2008
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Most common question I get when I tell them I'm sick: 'Where did you get your degree from?' and 'What level of schooling do you have?' WTF?
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So I'm bringing this back up, because I found it randomly, and thought it was great.
Here are my stories:
Chiropractor/acupuncturist: You don't have Lyme disease. If you did, your knees would be swollen to the size of grapefruits.
(When I still looked sceptical)- It's easy to think you have a brain tumor whenever you get a headache (I had not mentioned headaches or brain tumors)
Family doctor: When I came to him with Lyme- ``People get over Lyme.'' (as in, without treatment).
When I told him I'd already got an ND to sign off on the Igenex test he said sarcastically ``Welll, let's bet on the outcome.''
At drop-in clinic: I was there to talk about muscle twitches/tingling and eye problems.
Before I even got to the eye problems, he interrupted me to ask (3 times!) if I were an anxious person. Then he told me he thought it was stress.
I said I wasn't stressed. He went back to my chart from my previous visit , and started critiquing it!
Him- ``I see you came to us for shin splints. Have you resolved that?''.
Me- ``Not yet. I'm supposed to do physio for periostitis (shin splints'').
Him ``but your bone scan is normal. You can't have shin splints.''
Me ``The sports med doctor said I do.'' Him- ``You can't have shin splints.''
Arg! He was obviously looking for ways to prove I was a hypochondriac! Getting him to test just my thyroid/blood glucose was like pulling teeth!
If my Igenex comes back positive, I'm going to send them all copies!
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"Go home and have a glass of wine"...!!! What the...??
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quote:Originally posted by btmb03: "Go home and have a glass of wine"...!!! What the...??
I had a similar experience east December in the midst of my horrific Lyme crash.
My PCP said, "Take a Xanax. It's like having a glass of wine."
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Years ago I stopped to help our family doctor and crawled under his car to tie up the muffler to keep it from dragging on his way home from church. On my next visit to his office, when it was time to pay, he told his secretary not to charge me because I did him a favor last week.That was outrageous.
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Years ago I stopped to help our family doctor and crawled under his car to tie up the muffler to keep it from dragging on his way home from church. On my next visit to his office, when it was time to pay, he told his secretary not to charge me because I did him a favor last week.That was outrageous.
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Years ago I stopped to help our family doctor and crawled under his car to tie up the muffler to keep it from dragging on his way home from church. On my next visit to his office, when it was time to pay, he told his secretary not to charge me because I did him a favor last week.That was outrageous.
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Years ago I stopped to help our family doctor and crawled under his car to tie up the muffler to keep it from dragging on his way home from church. On my next visit to his office, when it was time to pay, he told his secretary not to charge me because I did him a favor last week.That was outrageous.
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Years ago I stopped to help our family doctor and crawled under his car to tie up the muffler to keep it from dragging on his way home from church. On my next visit to his office, when it was time to pay, he told his secretary not to charge me because I did him a favor last week.That was outrageous.
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Years ago I stopped to help our family doctor and crawled under his car to tie up the muffler to keep it from dragging on his way home from church. On my next visit to his office, when it was time to pay, he told his secretary not to charge me because I did him a favor last week.That was outrageous.
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That sounds nice Oz.
At an ER that my college roommate years ago dragged me to, the ER doc told me I drank too much, to stop drinking so much and I'd feel better.
Another doctor told me I had Somatization Disorder, past emotional trauma was causing my brain to make me sick.
Another told me it was normal to feel this way.
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