I wrote more about it on Facebook but it was the most dismissive doctor I've ever had. "you're fine, it was just anxiety"....Which every woman with a chronic illness has heard at least 500 times before actually getting the right care.
Oh, I ~hate~ that one. When I blew out a spinal disc and my entire right leg went into a perpetual, and painful, cramp, I was dismissed repeatedly as "over reacting" and that I'd be ok if I'd just "calm down." The pain was worse than anything I'd ever had, and constant. After three months of beating down medical doors, I was finally referred to a muscle/skeletal guy who, when I showed up on crutches with my leg contorted six inches off the floor, took one look at my back and could identify
by the redness and swelling over my spine that something was terribly amiss. The redness and swelling that like five doctors, an urgent care clinic, and the ER had failed to notice. Was in a MRI scanner the next day, and lo, a large chunk of disc had blown out and was impinging on a major nerve.
Gosh, yeah, we are all psychological cripples who visit doctors for "attention". (Yeah, freaking MEDICAL attention!
) I'm afraid I become extremely testy if a medical professional is the least bit condescending, these days.
