I went to a doctor the other day who had the guts to say he misdiagnosed and an MRI gave a closer look at the problem.Few will do that.
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I had a problem with a knee. This doctor I went to sent me for an x-ray. They put a little magnetic thing on my knee. My doctor said I had a BB in my knee. I just looked at him with wide eyes and said I think I would have remembered that and was it the magnetic marker they use?? He walked out and his PA came in and I said...”leave while you can, this isn’t a BB.”
He was my insurance doc and I was kind of limited at that point. Another time I needed my inhaler script refilled and called them and told them I needed my Xopenex. They called me back and said I must be mistaken as there was no Zopenex listed. I asked them if they were spelling it with an X or
Z as it was an X? And for some reason.. they stopped liking me ðð.
I switched as soon as I could to a doctor from Baghdad (seriously) and he had a HUGE problem prescribing my natural desiccated pig’s thyroid medication. I was asking him about his education, just bein’ nice and he said “they hired him because he could speak Arabic.” ð
That was at Scripps in San Diego.
Similar experience with my ankle/foot. It seemed like a normal sprain but was still swollen after two weeks. I went to a local doctor to have x-rays to see if anything was fractured. He didn’t find anything but said the tendons were torn (not ruptured) and put me in a boot with no instructions about how long to wear it.
FF two more weeks. I went back because I still couldn’t walk right so he sent me to have an MRI locally.
MRI came back that no tendons were torn. He said all he could do was put steroid shots in it. I said no thanks.
A few months later I went to a PT in Knoxville on my own dime. He did the usual massage and exercises done for sprained ankles but finally said I needed a second opinion from another different doctor, so I did. Still no diagnoses.
When I went back to the PT, he said he wanted me to see an ankle specialist friend of his, so I did.
Two more MRIs and multiple x-rays later she said that the tendons HAD been torn but the first local MRI was wrong. By that time, they had healed on their own but had healed too short. She gave me tendon stretching exercises and a brace and told me they would stretch naturally but it would take a very long time. Two years after seeing her, I’m still doing stretches. It’s slowly getting better but the whole thing could have been avoided if quack #1 and quack #2 had put me in PT at the very beginning, according to her. LOL
Both the specialist and the PT laughed and said that it probably would have healed better if I had avoided quack #1 and #2 and just walked on it. ðĪŠ