Harrybaby666
Well-known member
Hi Gang,
Just wanted to post and let yall know that my frustration is now getting the best of me...I am in the middle of changing my primary care doctor to one that is further out of my area, and I discovered that I am going to be out of my Lasix and Potassium in a couple of days, so I called my current cardiologist's office to get them refilled, and she told me that "because I don't have heart failure-they cannot refill them
and that I need to go back to my Primary care doctor...of whom I can never get to talk to or listen to me either in person or over the phone, and every time I try to tell the nurse (who is very indifferent and rude), she and/or Dr. Donovan just keep telling me that they are very busy, or they don't return my calls, or I cannot get in to see them right away...because they are not taking me seriously...AM I WRONG TO BELIEVE THAT A DOCTOR SHOULD NOT ONLY RELY ON TESTS, BUT TO LISTEN TO HOW THE PATIENT IS FEELING AND LISTEN TO WHAT THEIR SYMPTOMS ARE??? I got into it again with my cardio's nurse over the fact that I am not able to get my doctor or nurse to answer me, instead of pushing me to the side...Every time I call them, it's like I am bothering them, and so I haven't called them for anything even though I have been sick...ONCE AGAIN IT GOES BACK TO "BUT THE TESTS SHOW EVERYTHING IS OK....." They don't even consider the possibility that one condition could mask the other(s), I guess what I am saying is that I don't believe everything that the Dr says because if I am still having symptoms...Everytime I exhert myself, I start having chest pains, and get short of breath....I am swelling up and when I get full of fluid--which I tried to explain to the nurse--I start coughing like there is no tomorrow and this this goes on until I take a dose of my lasix and then the fluid is removed, then I start to feel better as far as the coughing until the next time it happens, then the cycle starts all over again...I am to the point of crying, I am so frustrated....I am sorry for venting...I am just so darn angry and frustrated....Harrybaby666
Just wanted to post and let yall know that my frustration is now getting the best of me...I am in the middle of changing my primary care doctor to one that is further out of my area, and I discovered that I am going to be out of my Lasix and Potassium in a couple of days, so I called my current cardiologist's office to get them refilled, and she told me that "because I don't have heart failure-they cannot refill them
and that I need to go back to my Primary care doctor...of whom I can never get to talk to or listen to me either in person or over the phone, and every time I try to tell the nurse (who is very indifferent and rude), she and/or Dr. Donovan just keep telling me that they are very busy, or they don't return my calls, or I cannot get in to see them right away...because they are not taking me seriously...AM I WRONG TO BELIEVE THAT A DOCTOR SHOULD NOT ONLY RELY ON TESTS, BUT TO LISTEN TO HOW THE PATIENT IS FEELING AND LISTEN TO WHAT THEIR SYMPTOMS ARE??? I got into it again with my cardio's nurse over the fact that I am not able to get my doctor or nurse to answer me, instead of pushing me to the side...Every time I call them, it's like I am bothering them, and so I haven't called them for anything even though I have been sick...ONCE AGAIN IT GOES BACK TO "BUT THE TESTS SHOW EVERYTHING IS OK....." They don't even consider the possibility that one condition could mask the other(s), I guess what I am saying is that I don't believe everything that the Dr says because if I am still having symptoms...Everytime I exhert myself, I start having chest pains, and get short of breath....I am swelling up and when I get full of fluid--which I tried to explain to the nurse--I start coughing like there is no tomorrow and this this goes on until I take a dose of my lasix and then the fluid is removed, then I start to feel better as far as the coughing until the next time it happens, then the cycle starts all over again...I am to the point of crying, I am so frustrated....I am sorry for venting...I am just so darn angry and frustrated....Harrybaby666
