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Originally Posted by faylowell
I wish I could find you a doctor that cared. My husband has had two different wound care specialists and both have been great. The first one retired and the second one was the previous one's assistant until she finished school. We had trouble with doctors and just this year we found a doctor that really listens to my husband. His previous doctor had been treating him for a few years with no explanation for why his legs swelled and why he kept passing kidney stones. She didn't seem too concerned. She would have him come in every three months for blood tests ( he has diabetes, and copd). A few months ago, he went to his appointment but the doctor was called out on a family emergency. Her nurse listened to my husband and then turned around and made an appointment with a specialist on the urinary tract. The doctor wasn't happy with this. To make a long story short, the nurse ended up quitting. My husband swapped doctors with his wound care specialist help. We found out that my husband has been suffering from urinary poisoning all these years, hence the swelling in the legs and the kidney stones. My husband is still scratching and picking his sores, but the wound care specialist gave us medicine to put on them to nip things in the bud. At least she is treating him no matter how bad he is.
Hey, if you lived near Louisiana, maybe I could help you find a good doctor. Just a thought.
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Hi Fayowell, I do have some good news as far as a family doctor. I phoned an MD's office and did a phone interview to see if they were taking new patients, I answered the questions and the MD has now accepted me as a patient and I am to go end of next week for my initial physical exam and such.
My former MD's office I was with for over a year and realized that each time I got sick I would never have a follow up appointment after having a staph infection treated at the er and also realized that I never met the MD who was in charge of the office and the NP I did see only prescribed me the medications from the super old and generic 4buck list from wal mrt and thought to myself no wonder I always had to go back.
I took it on my own actually to find a specialist of Endriconology who did a COMPLETE blood work up and found that I have type 2 diabetes, am in complete Testicular faliure and my body has stopped producing testosterone and that I have a serious vitamin d problem so much so that I am taking 10,000 units of the vitamin by prescription and all that time feeling wasted former MD acted like i was a burden and it was all in my head.
Thanks again
kk101