[Lemonpledge]

Several months ago I went to the emergency room. I had weakness on right side couldn't move my legs or arms on right side couldn't even talk. Doctors told my husband I had a conversion disorder but last month I was diagnosed with myasthenia gravis which would explain all my symptoms. Was also diagnosed with pots syndrome. I went to a completely different hospital. A few weeks ago I had to go to the hospital where they diagnosed me with conversion disorder because I wouldn't have made it to the other hospital, the nurses and doctors were making fun of me and got up and left. I go to this er on the first of the month for a reason and I really do have problems all the time.
Anyway non of the doctors believe I have been diagnosed with myasthenia gravis but on my health record from my doctor he has that listed as one of my diagnosis.
The doctors need to stop being so cruel, the ambulance took me to the er down the street and they stuck me in a room and gave me a shot and told my husband you can take her home in 7 hours when she wakes up. Never once took vitals. I hate doctors

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[Skeezyks]

Hello Lemonpledge: I'm sorry you have had to endure this kind of treatment. This really is unforgiveable. I have fared somewhat better. However, I have also had some unfortunate experiences with doctors. I avoid them as much as possible.

[Lemonpledge]

I used to avoid them but my conditions are still out of wack and am trying to control with medicine.

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[Fuzzybear]

[Cat_Lover_58]

I had to go to ER about 8 years ago. I thought I was having a stroke. Turned out I was ok and things were pretty much inconclusive. But...one of the RNs who checked on me, rolled her eyes as she walked out of my room...

I told my sister, who happens to be an RN, she talked to the RN and filed a complaint! I wonder why in the hell some of these people become healthcare "professionals"?

[AncientMelody]

Doctors are not cruel, individual human beings can be cruel.
I'm sorry that they were cruel to you.

[yagr]

I also have myasthenia gravis. I was once shown the door at an ER because I was slurring my words in a myasthenic crisis and they decided I was drunk. I haven't had a drink in twenty-three years. I'm sorry that this happened to you.

[passionfruit3]

I often wonder if my conversion disorder is a undiagnosed medical condition doctors never did much exploring especially when new symptoms occurred

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[specialneedsmom]

Originally Posted by Lemonpledge

A few weeks ago I had to go to the hospital where they diagnosed me with conversion disorder because I wouldn't have made it to the other hospital, the nurses and doctors were making fun of me and got up and left. I go to this er on the first of the month for a reason and I really do have problems all the time. Sent from my Z970 using Tapatalk

You can make a formal complaint to the hospital by writing a letter. I have done this, and I received a reply. The nurses and doctors were acting inappropriately and unprofessional by making fun of you.

[tradika]

I am sorry they treated you this way. Regardless of what is wrong with a patient, they still have a duty to treat you as a human being. Suffering is real regardless of the disease or disorder.

[PandorasAquarium]

I agree completely @Lemonpledge. So many of them really are. They objectify you. They have to in order to poke needles into you and slice you open. They have to dehumanize you in order to hurt you to help you. Hope that makes sense.

Its horrible. I'm suffering from this objectification and dehumanization myself. I really can relate. I feel like an object on an assembly line. A broken machine. They stick you in the waiting room, then preop. Then they open me up, cut parts out, sew me back up, pump me full of antibiotics, and move me into the recovery room. Then out the door. And as I leave the operating room, they clean it up and bring in the next broken machine.

Through it all, they can't see us as human beings with feelings and fears and pain. They have to see us as broken objects that they get paid to fix. Just assembly line workers doing their jobs and daydreaming about what they're going to spend all their money on this weekend.

Yes, I'm a bit disenchanted with the healthcare system myself. I'm sorry you're going through this too.

[bbc666]

whats your diagnosis?

[Noca86]

I had typed out a long response of my experiences with doctors detailing the hell they have put me through but it got lost somehow. I am totally disillusioned to the myth that doctors are all altruistic, competent professionals who actually care about you and who actually give a damn whether you ever recover from what ails you or just stay sick for life.

I find a great deal of them to be sociopaths who cannot be bargained with, who cannot be reasoned with, who don't feel pity, or guilt, or remorse or responsibility or any sort of empathy whatsoever. They often ignore/dismiss every last concern you have until you are on the absolute cusp of death, only coming to help you at the 11th hour and not a minute sooner. Your recovery seems like it was never their goal, not now and not ever. Some of them go beyond just sociopathy, and are also sadists who seem to go out of their way to maximize the suffering you have to go through both in intensity and duration and enjoy making you and watching you suffer.

Most of them are totally useless, like a group partner that you get stuck with to work on a school project together. You end up being the one who has to do all the work, while they simply show up to class(the appointment) and take all the credit. They seemingly can't even do the most basic of jobs such as prescribing medication properly, the equivalent of writing names on a title page. They go beyond just being useless, they manufacture problems that didn't exist before hand because they don't listen to a word you say, which is the equivalent of them taking work you have done and folding it up into paper airplanes and flying them across the classroom. That is how I see the patient/doctor relationship I have with most doctors.

If it isn't clear already, from my past 10.5 years of experience with countless(close to 200) doctors for various health problems, I hate the vast majority of them.

[coyotee]

Originally Posted by PandorasAquarium

I agree completely @Lemonpledge. So many of them really are. They objectify you. They have to in order to poke needles into you and slice you open. They have to dehumanize you in order to hurt you to help you. Hope that makes sense.

Its horrible. I'm suffering from this objectification and dehumanization myself. I really can relate. I feel like an object on an assembly line. A broken machine. They stick you in the waiting room, then preop. Then they open me up, cut parts out, sew me back up, pump me full of antibiotics, and move me into the recovery room. Then out the door. And as I leave the operating room, they clean it up and bring in the next broken machine.

Through it all, they can't see us as human beings with feelings and fears and pain. They have to see us as broken objects that they get paid to fix. Just assembly line workers doing their jobs and daydreaming about what they're going to spend all their money on this weekend.

Yes, I'm a bit disenchanted with the healthcare system myself. I'm sorry you're going through this too.

You put it into words very well. That sort of treatment can make you feel so alone.

[karleen's whisky]

I am sorry to hear you had such a bad experience doctors usually are kind and gentle to their patients.

[HeavyMetalLover]

Originally Posted by Noca86

I had typed out a long response of my experiences with doctors detailing the hell they have put me through but it got lost somehow. I am totally disillusioned to the myth that doctors are all altruistic, competent professionals who actually care about you and who actually give a damn whether you ever recover from what ails you or just stay sick for life.

I find a great deal of them to be sociopaths who cannot be bargained with, who cannot be reasoned with, who don't feel pity, or guilt, or remorse or responsibility or any sort of empathy whatsoever. They often ignore/dismiss every last concern you have until you are on the absolute cusp of death, only coming to help you at the 11th hour and not a minute sooner. Your recovery seems like it was never their goal, not now and not ever. Some of them go beyond just sociopathy, and are also sadists who seem to go out of their way to maximize the suffering you have to go through both in intensity and duration and enjoy making you and watching you suffer.

Most of them are totally useless, like a group partner that you get stuck with to work on a school project together. You end up being the one who has to do all the work, while they simply show up to class(the appointment) and take all the credit. They seemingly can't even do the most basic of jobs such as prescribing medication properly, the equivalent of writing names on a title page. They go beyond just being useless, they manufacture problems that didn't exist before hand because they don't listen to a word you say, which is the equivalent of them taking work you have done and folding it up into paper airplanes and flying them across the classroom. That is how I see the patient/doctor relationship I have with most doctors.

If it isn't clear already, from my past 10.5 years of experience with countless(close to 200) doctors for various health problems, I hate the vast majority of them.

You've just written my thoughts on this topic as if you're my twin! I have Bipolar 1 Disorder, PTSD, BPD, COPD, gastric ulcers , am a cervical cancer survivor and now I have chronic searing pain in my abdomen that started on the upper right side then moved to the upper left side as well as the lower right side. I have constant searing, stabbing pain in my abdomen no matter what I do or what position I'm in as well as nausea( sometimes accompanied by vomit, which is also sometimes bloody vomit). I have been in & out of ER departments in this town in 2 hospitals several times for this. They admitted me once with a diagnosis of pancreatits after a prior time they admitted me & took out my gallbladder because it was , I quote. "about to explode". I'm STILL sick, STILL feeling pain. None of their prior treatments have rid me of the pain/ill feeling.

I went to ER 2 weeks ago again. They did some labs (blood work, UA, etc.), did a CT scan, gave me pain meds & Zofran & sent me home after telling me that I have an enlarged liver &my liver enzymes are still elevated ( They've done several blood tests over the past few months and my liver enzymes have consistently been elevated). They diagnosed me with fatty liver disease, which is WRONG, because you don't feel pain with fatty liver disease.

Anyway, I had pain so bad last night that I doubled over and passed out while walking into the bathroom at home. My bf took me to ER again. They took my blood & a UA ( yet again) , then took forever to send the doctor back in my room. He had discharge papers in his hand, lectured me about going to ER so frequently when it's not a life threatening emergency, told me to go see a GI & never treated my pain or nausea!!! When I asked him why he wasn't treating my pain, at the very least, through tears because I was still in agony, he visibly rolled his eyes at me, told me to take Tylenol, because I already have hydrocodone at home (which I do but it's not even TOUCHING the pain). I insisted that he at least give me a prescription so I wouldn't pass out from pain & fall AGAIN & he wrote me a prescription for menstrual cramp medicine. ( I had a hysterectomy in 2009. I no longer have a uterus not to mention THIS ISN'T F^&KING CRAMPS!!!) Then.... it gets better... He THREW the prescription at me and showed me the door . As my bf & I were leaving & I was STILL crying, I overheard the ER doc say to my ER nurse that I'm just " a junkie trying to get another fix".

I stopped, turned around, and at the top of my lungs yelled my reply at the ER doc that if I was just looking for a fix I know a place downtown where I can get the good **** without having to take any **** off some pompous asshole in a white coat. ( My Irish/bipolar temper got the best of me). I was crying mad &in pain. I vomitted blood right at their door in the front lobby & left them to clean it up.... because I already knew they weren't going to do jack s*&% to help me.

That was last night( Friday night). Today I've been home, taking my hydros and Ramitidine, lying here with my heating pad on my belly. I occasionally get up to eat, go the bathroom, etc. but I'm just making it through the weekend as best I can until I can call my pcp Monday to light a fire under her butt to get me a referral to a GI doc.

I HATE doctors!!!!!I've only met one that seemed to really give a s&*^ & she moved back to Canada because , as she told me, our health care system sucks & she felt like she couldn't really help people because of the politics involved here. Now, my new pcp, her replacement, seems like she's unsure of herself most of the time & I'm not real confident she can help me either.

Anyway, if you've read this far...THANK YOU FOR READING MY RANT!!! Now, I'll give ya'll a break from my bi^&*ing. For now, anyways.

[MobiusPsyche]

A doctor tried to diagnose me with conversion disorder once. Yelled at him that I was depressed, yes, but this was not conversion disorder. He gave me an MRI to shut me up and...turns out i had suffered a stroke. That doctor never spoke to me again. Much happier with his partner anyway.

That said, most doctors I've met are really doing the best the can in this crazy Healthcare system. I love my primary care doc, he will joke with me and isn't afraid of my mental illness.

Psychiatrists, though, never had a good one yet. (Shakes fist)

[The_little_didgee]

Most of my horrific doctor experiences happened in the emergency department. It was always the same doctor, the one with the expressionless face. He had no tolerance towards people with mental illness. I was often a victim of his frustration. Now, I won't to go to emergency, unless I am dying or have suffered a major injury such as a fracture.

The worst hospital I ever "served time in" was the local children's hospital. The staff were cruel in that place. They used threats to get patients to cooperate. Image being threatened with an admission to a provincial psychiatric hospital at the age of 16. As far as I am concerned that was very inappropriate.

When I diagnosed with personality disorder, it was very heard to be heard. I developed psychosis about 5 years after that diagnosis. When the illness was in the early stage I ended up in the emergency department. The psychiatrist accused me of lying about my symptoms and told me it was just my personality. About 4 months later I was very ill and in need of treatment. At that point it was very obvious my illness was a lot more than a disordered personality.

So many clinicians are very judgmental towards personality disorder. They assume legitimate medical concerns are malingering or due to factitious disorder.

[lv99atheist]

America. Earth's latest third-world country.

[Gus1234U]

i have had so many horrible (truely horrific) experiences with doctors.
i was telling a new friend about the lastest one, where the only clinic in the county tried to 'disenroll' me for filing a complaint (they CAN do that~!)

and she wrote back asking me what i was doing wrong
who can trust a person like that ? why would i want them for a friend?

[Calico_91]

=( Yeah, I tend to not be fond of doctors either. I'm sorry that happened to you, too.

They tend to get annoyed with those of us with chronic illnesses or psych stuff.