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LoriSue
Thank you, Thank you, a million thank yous to everyone who replied to my previous posts. Your support has keep me going these last couple weeks. It made all the difference in the world. I had some good news today. I finally found a doctor to listen to me. I had a regular follow-up appointment with my G.I. doc and during the course of our visit she asked why I wasn't taking my digoxin. I told her that my PCP took me off it and I have been feeling really bad this week. I also told her about the increase in arrythmias this week and the passing out episode in my barn on Tuesday. She immediately stopped me and asked who my Cardio was. I told her I didn't have one. Her jaw hit the floor. She said I definitely needed one. She said I should have been sent for a consult when the Bivalve was diagnosed 18 months ago. I told her I had asked for a referral but the PCP wasn't cooperating. That was the first time I have ever seen a doc show such emotion. She was pretty animated after I told her about the PCP saying that the swelling feet was probably due to my age (40). I also told her that the second PCP that I saw last week attributed my symptoms to anxiety and offered to prescribe something. At that point she stood up and literally walked me to the cardio's office at the other end of the building and took me into his nurses station and ordered a new echo, holter monitor and set up an appointment with the Cardio while I was standing there with her!
The echo and stuff is all set for next week and then my appointment with him is for the week after that when he has all the stuff back. Then she turned to me and told me to go down to the lab when I was done there and so I did. When I got down to the lab, she had already called and had ordered a bunch of blood work (can't even remember it all now), and urinalysis. Before she left me to go back to her office she made a comment about how wrong it was for PCPs to blame blatantly obvious symptoms on stress or anxiety and no wonder heart disease is the number one killer of women, maybe it isn't the women under reporting their symptoms....maybe it was the doctors ignoring them.
Needless to say....I was in awe. I wanted to kiss this woman.
So what I want to say to everyone is thank you so much for giving me the courage to keep going and have faith in myself instead of cowering down and giving in. For everyone out there that might be having a hard time finding appropriate medical care, don't let a few crappy doctors stand in the way of you finding the really good ones that are really dedicated to healing.
Lori
The echo and stuff is all set for next week and then my appointment with him is for the week after that when he has all the stuff back. Then she turned to me and told me to go down to the lab when I was done there and so I did. When I got down to the lab, she had already called and had ordered a bunch of blood work (can't even remember it all now), and urinalysis. Before she left me to go back to her office she made a comment about how wrong it was for PCPs to blame blatantly obvious symptoms on stress or anxiety and no wonder heart disease is the number one killer of women, maybe it isn't the women under reporting their symptoms....maybe it was the doctors ignoring them.
Needless to say....I was in awe. I wanted to kiss this woman.
So what I want to say to everyone is thank you so much for giving me the courage to keep going and have faith in myself instead of cowering down and giving in. For everyone out there that might be having a hard time finding appropriate medical care, don't let a few crappy doctors stand in the way of you finding the really good ones that are really dedicated to healing.
Lori
. I also have seen so many situations like yours where the doctor thinks that if the paperwork is in order, and the file is put away neatly, their obligation is fulfilled.
