and1GS wrote:TBH mine took about 4-5 months to diagnose with my primary doctor basically calling me a pussy and saying I was good to resume activity. Turns out I had a muscle tear and severe sciatica-related pain.
Looney has the benefit of real doctors so he should be diagnosed much earlier.
Honestly, I've had bad experiences with the last two primary care physicians I had, the first one spent little time with me and he would barely review what was going on and either send me away with some medication or I basically wasted a visit just to be completely frustrated. Two of the medications I actually got prescribed from that physician, I went to a specialist for the issue and he basically stated to me those two medications I got prescribed were completely useless in what was actually causing the problem, so I basically wasted about $80 for medication I didn't need. One of those medications were amoxicillin and if you know anything about antibiotics, you want to be cautious when prescribing them and not hand scripts willy-neely because future bacteria may become resistant to the antibiotics you're taking and this guy has definitely prescribed me amoxicillin for different stuff at least like three times.
A doctor I visited a few weeks ago basically acted like I was an idiot or overreacting. I went to her to taper off some medication I was taking and I told her I didn't think I needed it anymore, she was acting all skeptical. I also pointed out to her another problem I had while on the medication and she was like I think you're overanalyzing it. I also mentioned I wanted to get off of it because I was gaining weight, which is a known side effect of this medication. Again, she acted like I was making ish up, she was like are you sure it's the medication because I have never actually seen anyone gain weight from it. By the way, I'm a pharmacy student, going into the final year of my actual education, the year after will just be rotations, so I've studied this stuff and I even had a rotation at a hospital where many of the patients were taking the same medication and had to be monitored for weight gain because long time ago they didn't monitor it and their patients gained a significant amount of weight.
There's other cases I know from friends where they've had bad experiences, like an ER doctor prescribing a specific medication less likely to work than another in a person with this certain condition that ended up causing my friend's mother to go back to the hospital in even worse condition... Rofl end of my rant, but I understand the frustrations with having a doctor not taking you seriously.
