I must have my "LITTLE" MD rant...

Wow Bellyful! I'm so sorry! I mean this as an utter compliment. So, please don't take this offensively. You had me really laughing. You're so funny. That is a good thing. I really needed it.

Ayayay, I have to engage in these tactics too. Maybe not exactly. At least my doctor cares that I'm suffering. We had a rocky start. He wants me to be comfortable by helping me to manage my symptoms. I know that he does not believe in Lyme. Since he is trying to help me, it makes me feel better. In the meantime, I can attack the bugs with my LLMD.

Hang in there. I wish we did not have to pave the way for future generations, but that is our path. We have to take any blessings we can get. Keep fighting!

Bellyfull, I also think you are very funny. If I see you've posted, I will usually read it. I like your posts. You have a good way of looking at things.

I feel for you - my sister just took her son to the doctor today with a tick bite and he refused her antibiotics - she told him that her sister has chronic lyme and he laughed, told her that it doesn't exist, and that anyone who believes it does is STUPID!

SO messed up. I get that the research didn't used to be there but there's plenty of proof now! The stupid ones are the doctors who don't keep up with medical research!!

I think about 80% of doctors are aholes, whether they mean to be or not.

There, now you can curse vicariously through me!

I was once trying to post about ****s, meaning the German Army during WWII, and that word automatically gets bleeped out, which I thought was kind of funny.

Can you find a Lyme friendly doctor?

I just got walloped by another bad doctor experience earlier this month, and now I realize I should never have shown him my photo of the EM rash. That convinces some docs, but it alienates others.

Margaret

Sadly, I stopped trying, even when it comes to stuff apart from Lyme. It's too hard for me to think well enough to talk in person, with anybody - friends, family, let alone doctors. They all know me, that I "think" I have Lyme. It comes up during our sessions, again, regardless of what the visit pertains to.

They just to convince me everything's fine, then push the Lyme stuff off as psychosomatization. I just can't defend myself against it anymore.

It really is sad. I've had constipation problems for months now. Laxatives barely work, most of the time. I have feared, still fear, getting a blockage, or something. I tried and tried, multiple visits, multiple doctors, to get them to scan my bowels.

When they finally agreed to, insurance wouldn't cover it, so I got a different scan.. that didn't even look at the lower intestines, the problem area.

I went back, told them this, and was basically told that there's nothing they can do. I can sort of understand that, they can't force the insurance people to pay, but.. still kind of borderline malpractice imo.

If I end up getting a blockage, that stuff is all on record, that I tried, so..

Anyway, yeah, those talks. Ugh. Can't do it anymore. I'm probably gonna have to force it out of me though, 'cause.. got some more problems going on. Yay.

Your doctors sound like Greek doctors, Antonio.

Belly~cross off the turd & on to the next (will that be bleeped?).

Antonio~Geezch-not good being all bound up. You're not taking pain pills, r u? Cuz they will do a # on u & not the # you want! Guess you've exhausted the colace type of drugs, right?

SillyS~lolol-your stepD-"You talk too much!" And his other casual ways-he could very well have some Greek in him-ha! AND DFK--brilliant!

Had a friend going thru med school & I thought I knew what the term GOMER meant, but never had an inkling the words for this acronym. For this cast, anyway, it was reserved for the older folk coming into the ER, putting aside the needs of the younger. The decoding: "Get Out of My Emergency Room." I know, not nice.

U ever see the movie "Captain Corelli's Mandolin"? Dunno-reading your post, SS, somehow reminded me of it.

Just for giggles

www.healthline.com/symptom/dark-urine?pagenum=1&

silly doctor anyway.

You handled that with class.....

"I've had doctors get mad, during visits. Well, not mad exactly, but tense. It's like they take my "thinking" I have Lyme personally, like they're offended"

That exactly describes my the Greek doctors at my ER visits, Antonio. The Greek neuroligist too. Couldn't have put it better myself.

Bellyfull, would could be sister's. I was that "strong willful" child and karma is definitely bites you because my 15 yr old son is now the "strong willful" child. Boy is it hard when we disagree.

One problem with doctors (and especially specialist) are they think the words after their name spell GOD, not MD. They hate bringing showed up and they will never admit they don't know something. The worse offense is trying to make you feel like it's all in your head.

I've had symptoms since I was 16, so I have two kids and went through two pregnancies. My youngest, my son, has lots of symptoms that I thought had gone away but are reappearing.

I was using the Guaifenisen Protocol for Fibromyalgia. I wanted to start him on it because the quicker you start the less time it takes to treat. So we discussed it and she sent us to the head of Pediatric Rheumatology. We went and did every test imaginable. When they were all done, he came to me and said that he didn't find anything, he didn't think it was all in my sons head because the way it presented. The came the kicker, he said "sometimes when we see patients with parents who have chronic issues like pain, THEY project the symptoms on to their children." He was saying my sons pain and another symptoms were a figment of my imagination. I was so upset, I couldn't think never mind tell him off.

At our next pediatric visit, when we were done, she said to me so you saw dr so and so and there's nothing wrong. I told her I don't care who he is. He may know a lot about pediatrics, but his been side manner sucked. I would never under any circumstances either go see him again or recommend him. I said this doctor told me it was a figment of my imagination. i had been with this pediatrician for more than 10 years and she was my son's first doctor.

She was dumbfounded. I told her it was ok because the tests he had done were the suite of tests needed to rule out everything but Fibromyalgia. Si I was going to start him on the treatment She said she couldn't recommend it because she had read a paper about the guai causing problems with plateles. I said I would check it out (and I did) but I needed to do what is right for my child. And I did, no hard feelings.

it sound like it's your primary. Fire him! Your LLMD might have a suggestion of someone who works for them.

Find a good one. i know it takes effort, but think how much energy you are wasting dealing with this doctor. We all fear that our doctors will stop treating us if we talk back at them, but they are human so they make mistakes. It's a partnership not a boss/employee relationship. Fire him and move on to someone that will work with.

Good Luck, Kim

Well... if it walks like a duck... and talks like a duck... its a QUACK!!!

*quack=non llmd denying lyme