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This is the email I sent to Doctor B’s office, my current primary care physician. So far I haven’t heard anything back.

Nurse J,

Thank you for calling me back yesterday. I apologize for not being able to take your call; I was at work.

Concerning your message you left, I also thought that I was being referred to the endocrinologist to have the sestamibi scan and CT scan of the head done. I was under the impression that Dr. B was referring me to him for that reason, because Insurance Co. wouldn’t cover the tests otherwise. I assumed Dr. B had told him this.

Instead, when I went in on Wednesday, the doctor didn’t even know who had referred me. He thought Dr. A had. Apparently he’d gone back through my old chart from her office and he just parroted all the same stuff about “anxiety” and “stress” that got me unhappy with Dr. A and led me to come back to Dr. B.

(He literally said “I suffered from anxiety once...first I treated it with alcohol, then I went to a psychiatrist. This guy was a real piece of work and I nearly walked out.)

All the endocrinologist guy did was tell me to quit taking my metoprolol and when I have another episode I’m to do a six hour urine collection. (I asked him if I should wean off the metoprolol and he said “How much are you taking?” I told him 100mg in the morning and 50mg at night and he replied “Oh...I thought you were just taking 25mg.” which was the original dose Dr. A put me on back in February. See? The guy had no clue about me.)

So, no...he didn’t order the sestamibi scan and didn’t address the fact that I have significant blurry vision in my right eye, even though I told him about it.

I haven’t been able to go off the metoprolol or even decrease it down to less than the 100mg/50mg regime without my pressure going up and I notice a worsening of my vision whenever my pressure is up, so weaning off this medication is worrisome to me. I sure don’t want my vision to get worse.

Which is why I called Dr. B. I felt like going to this particular endocrinologist was a complete waste of time, made worse by the fact I waited something like 6 weeks to get in to see him, thinking I’d be getting these tests done and possibly find out what’s really going on.

So the prospect of going to a neurologist and possibly having to repeat this scenario again isn’t what I want to do.

I want Dr. B to help me. Before I lost my hearing in my right ear nine years ago, I knew something was wrong and didn’t push hard enough to have it addressed. I don’t want to make that same mistake again. I don’t want to wait weeks and weeks to go to a neurologist. Dr. B can help me with this.

I will await your reply.