Kinda Nervous

[queenoftheskies]

Well, this is the day I've been waiting for. For a couple of months, actually. For this, I've bitched and complained about the insurance. For this, I've stressed.

Appointment with the new doctor this afternoon. He/she (I don't know which yet) is in the same office with my horrible doctor, though, so I'm really very nervous about going.

This is my third doctor at this medical group. The first was an outright quack (I won't go into details.) and disappeared suddenly.

I was assigned to a new doctor that I thought would be better, but this woman frightened me. I hated to go to the doctor. I stressed each and every time and very rarely had good numbers. She yelled and was negative and told me she did it to all her patients because most of them didn't follow the "rules".

Well, I DO follow the "rules", and I always hated going. A couple of times, I even skipped my quarterly appointments because I was afraid of her, which was a bad thing to do.

The last two times I had appointments with her, her nurse called and left me voice mail messages to cancel them, telling me the doctor wasn't going to be in the office those days. Then, as many of you will remember, she refused to refill my prescription when I couldn't go in because I had no insurance.

I went last month to walk-in (when I was SUPPOSED to have insurance, but didn't) and my BP was okay. I like the walk-in doctor, but she's ONLY walk-in. She didn't check my blood sugar, but she smiled at my BP (my other doctor NEVER smiled) and asked if I ate right. I told her yes, and she wrote me one month's prescription for my meds.

Today, I meet the new doctor and hope he/she doesn't fuss over the fact that I haven't been for a REAL appointment in so long. I really want to get off on the right foot. I want someone who will work to help me get OFF the meds...the blood sugar, at least...as I lose more weight. Someone who will help me regulate with diet only, cause I'm good with that. I guess I'll be on the BP meds forever, but as long as BP is good, I'm okay with that.

My fear? Well, my big fear is that I'll get someone like the two I've had before. That prescribe meds for the hell of it.

My first doctor prescribed a med that made me deathly ill and I almost had an accident while driving. I came to find out it was something she should NOT have prescribed and it stopped really fast. Then, she bungled the BP problem and didn't catch the blood sugar when it could have been controlled WITHOUT meds.

Second doctor DOUBLED my blood sugar meds when my blood sugar was ONE-TENTH of a percent higher ONE time. And, then, decided to prescribe cholesterol meds even thought she said I had NO cholesterol problems. "Just in case it pops up later." But, she said if I had side-effects to stop taking it. I did, so I stopped.

I want a doctor to tell me what to do to improve my health and to take care of the conditions and improve them without just throwing meds at them. Yes, meds are necessary, but...there are other things that can be done too.

My last doctor told me she didn't have time to talk to me about those things and that if they ever got a dietician, maybe I could talk to her.

So, I'm trying not to be nervous. Nervous raises the numbers and raised numbers are NOT good.

Comments

[writerbythebay.livejournal.com]

I hope it goes well for you. Yippy for the insurance! Have you thought about changing medical groups/offices all together or seeing a naturalpath?

[terri-osborne.livejournal.com]

*sends tons of calming vibes*

[barbarienne.livejournal.com]

1. If you don't like your doctor, there is NOTHING wrong with switching. You don't like every person you meet, do you? So why would you expect to like all doctors?

2. A doctor is supposed to take care of the single most important object you own. If you didn't like your car mechanic, you would switch without a qualm, right? How can you do less for your own body?

3. Perhaps you should tell the new doctor "I haven't been to the doctor in months because the previous doctor was mean and made me afraid." If your new doctor doesn't react with "Oh, dear! Well, I won't do that to you," then you should keep shopping.

I don't think my g.p. is the best doctor ever, but she's extremely pleasant and doesn't lecture or yell, so I go for my annual every year like clockwork.

[java-fiend.livejournal.com]

Well, I hope it all worked out well in the end. And as others have pointed out, you can switch doctors.

Did it work out well?

[ultharkitty.livejournal.com]

I can't quite belive how incompetant and money-grubbing these doctors sound. I really hope your next one is a real doctor, that is one who thinks of it as their vocation and really wants to help people.