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Question about switching doctors
| Wed, 02-16-2005 - 2:48pm |
Hi Everyone
Happy belated Valentine's Day
Here's a dumb question, but I knew you ladies would understand....
Has anyone ever switched doctors and wished they hadn't? I felt I had a good partnership with my doctor and then I relocated and my new doctor is wanting to take a completely different diagnosis and route and I don't relate to him at all.
I'm really frustrated and "doctor spooked". Does this happen to you?
(I made an appointment to talk to my previous dr. in April.)
Susan

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Susan, no question is ever dumb and yes, we do understand.
Molly
AS for regretting and going back,that is your rite. I am sure the Dr would understand or at least he should.Good luck. Bev
Susan,
After 3 years with my first rheumy, we moved and I had to find a new one. After 6 months of every test under the sun, this new rheumy tells me I do not have anything rheumatologically wrong with me!! I was in shock!! No FM, no RA!! nothing!!! I went back to my first rheumy confused and upset. He said I was in remission and I definetly have FM. He told me to find a new doctor, that he wanted me to have one that was closer than he was, but that he would treat me till that happened. He treated me till my eye doctor finally got me in to see a rheumy he recommended. I am still with him and happy. I still like my first one better, but a 2+ hour drive over the Sierra Nevada Mountains to Reno is not worth it. He feels that if my knee were to blow up, I would need immediate attention. So, Susan, I suggest you do go back to your old doctor and then if he is too far away, find a new one!
Good Luck,
Hugs,
Vicki
Thanks for the reassurance. This rheumy said doesn't think that my low back pain is caused by any inflammation - even though it's present on the x-ray. My first rheumy has been insistant on it for the past year and wants to keep it in control. I believe her - everything I have read on spondylitis backs up what she's telling me and the symptoms I'm experiencing.
The second rheumy thinks (and he's not certain) that I have FM and that the low back pain is not worth taking MTX for. I was mad. I mean, this thing HURTS! I quit my job because of it, I can't do the activities I use to be able to do, I can't sit for very long without discomfort, I can't drive for more than 15 minutes at time without discomfort, I can't be on my feet very long....etc, etc. And NSAIDS don't do anything for it.
I am not stupid about this - or my body or medical sciences in general.
Argh! I'm anxious to talk to my first rheumy.
Thanks - I needed to vent!
Susan
Molly
Molly
Yes, I had something similar happen. I had to change doctors because the first one hated me and the second doctor didn't have privledges at my hospital (the only hospital in town). So this is my third RA doc. He has made it pretty clear he thinks I'm doctor shopping for pain pills - but in reality I just wanted someone who didn't loath me because I'm overweight (I live in CO where skinny is the norm). So now I'm stuck with a jerky doctor and I'm afraid to go anywhere else for fear I'll be further labeled. Its very frustrating.
Avin
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