Dontcha just love doctors? I've been having trouble with my elbow since the first time I broke it when I was 8 years old. Then I broke it again when I was 19. (I'm 22 now.) Y'know what my doctor told me? "Well, there's not really anything else I can do."
But, that doesn't mean there's not anything else that can be done.
If the problem is a significant one that impacts significantly on a person's life, they should see a specialist or search the net for more information.
I did not mean to be critical of my doctor. He was teasing me. We have been going to him since 1971. He is one of the few doctors I know who admits that he does not know the answer to a problem. Or, if it is about something else, he will say that is out of my expertise. I do not know what we will do when he decides to retire.
I most decidedly don't like Doctors.
I just discovered that a medicine they gave me while I was in the Hospital exactly a year ago, is what put me on crutches!
Just as I was getting stronger from having a tired heart due to 24-hrs of atrial fibrillation, they put me on a medicine for Bp that causes "extreme muscle weakness".
I've been complaining about having to use a crutch or two, to walk, to do anything!
It was when another drug was added 2 weeks ago, and I was made so weak, I was basically bedridden, that I went online, looked up these drugs, and for both, "severe muscle weakness" and "fatigue" are listed as severe side effects.
I am so mad - and disapponted in a Doctor I really, really trusted.
Unfortunately, I have to keep taking this drug, until I find a Doc where I now live, but I'm looking forward to being put on a drug that does what the original one was supposed to do - get my blood pressure under control, without putting me on crutches at the same time!
And yes, I AM guilty of not reading those inserts they give you with medicines - as I was given the original drug in the Hospital where they don't exactly give you those little sheets to read. Stupid me - trusted Doctors, especially Cardiologists who don't know anything about rheumatology, and *I* should have known better.
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