I Could Be A Doctor

From what I've witnessed over the past ten years with MY doctor, I'm quite confident that I could do his job. Listen to patient, take notes, look up random drugs, write prescription, collect paycheck. Got it.

The man has been treating me for the same exact thing for 10 YEARS, and I get the same response every time I see him. "I don't see any change in your blood work...Hmmmm... Let's try this." **Shrugs**

Wow, that reassures me. At least he's consistant. Basically what it boils down to is that he DOESN'T KNOW what to do. Okay, no problem. I wish doctors would just be honest about what they do and don't know, rather than trying to act god-like and prescribe you all sorts of BS that won't help. I'd be far more willing to go along with something if they made it clear that it was more of an "experimental" sort of treatment to see what works. I'm not stupid, I know when you don't know what you're doing...

I swear, it took like 13 years for them to realize that I had Lupus. Heaven forbid that they listen to me and go along with MY theory of all the symptoms being related. No, they want to treat every symptom individually, or insist that I take an antideppresant because it's "all in my head". WTF?

I started this rant because of the newest thing to happen. My doctor finally figured out that I have endometiosis. Of course, they had to cut me open to figure it out, but I'd say it was well worth it. Now that man can't give me anymore crap when I tell him that my PMS includes so much pain that I can't WALK! That man used to look at me like I was crazy when I'd explain it to him and then try to prescribe Zoloft. Hello... I'm not depressed, or crazy. I have PAIN. MEN!! The best part? They're not going to do anything about it. Too risky to cut it out, and the drugs that are supposed to help don't mesh well with me. My prescription? "Take Advil." Which, if he'd bothered to care or just look at my file, would know that I can't take Advil, or aspirin. I've been with him for 10 FRIGGIN YEARS!, and he can't remember that?

I think I'm done with doctors for a while. Until something major happens, like my arm falls off, I won't be making any appointments any time soon.