Do You Trust Doctors?

[Disco Scratch]

The reason I don't trust doctors at all is because just in the past three years while they've tried to figure out what is going on with me they've diagnose me with so many random things. It makes me think doctors really aren't as good as everyone believes.

With me seeing multiple specialists and telling them the EXACT SAME SYMPTOMS they've diagnosed me with the following conditions.

October 2013 - December 2016

Strep
Lupus
Sinusitis
Acid Reflux
Constipation
Food Allergies
Anorexia Nervosa
HIV (it was negative)
Eosinophilic Esophagitis
General Anxiety Disorder

*FACEPALM*

That's Gastrologists, Allergists, ENT Specialists, Infectious Diseases Specialists, my primary doctor and a number of hospital doctors coming in at over $100,000 in debt after I lost my heath insurance when Obamacare kicked in.

Medications they've prescribed or recommended

1. Flovent HFA 220 mcg (Eosinophilic Esophagitis Treatment)
2. Pantprazole SOD DR 40 MG
3. Sucralfate 1 GM Tablet
4. Ventolin HFA 90 mcg
5. Fluticasone Propionate Nasal Spray 50 mcg
6. Amoxicillin 500 MG (2x per day for 10 days)
7. Clindamycin 300 MG (3x per day for 7 days)
8. Doxycyclin 100 M (2x per day for 7 days)
9. Metronidazole 500 MG Tablet (x1 every 8 hours for 7 days)
10. Buspar 15 MG / Lorazepam 1 MG
11. Prilosec OTC 20 MG Tablet / Nexium 40 MG / Esomeprazole 40 MG
12. Phillips Milk of Magnesia / Dulcolax 25 MG

Yes, they've prescribed me all those random medications before identifying what's going on with me.

I've had health problems ever since I was eighteen. I'm thirty three now with health problems advanced enough to significantly impact my quality of life, but I still don't have a clear diagnosis yet. I've become almost physically incapable of getting myself out of bed and doctors still have no clue why. They've even resorted to blaming me or accusing me of doing this to myself intentionally. Fifteen years of my life have been flushed down the toilet. Not by drugs, alcohol or bad choices, but by doctors. I'm never going to be anything. I'm never going to be able to do any of the things I've always wanted to do. I've never even had a girlfriend before. I've never experienced love.

My life has been wasted by doctors. They destroyed anything I was ever going to be.

If you've ever wondered why I'm so skeptical of science...

This is why.

[Dr. Na'vi]

Originally Posted by Eternal Enigma

I'm never going to be anything. I'm never going to be able to do any of the things I've always wanted to do. I've never even had a girlfriend before. I've never experienced love.

My life has been wasted by doctors. They destroyed anything I was ever going to be.

I don't even know how properly react to this in text form...
Only an expert in that field can diagnose you correctly ofc, but that paragraph and the way you express your feelings make me almost 100% sure that you also have some sort of depression.

What's really wierd for me is that you got prescriptions without even having a clear diagnosis, it's totally justified for you to distrust these doctors.

[Crickett]

Originally Posted by Dr. Na'vi

I don't even know how properly react to this in text form...
Only an expert in that field can diagnose you correctly ofc, but that paragraph and the way you express your feelings make me almost 100% sure that you also have some sort of depression.

What's really wierd for me is that you got prescriptions without even having a clear diagnosis, it's totally justified for you to distrust these doctors.

At least some of those are fairly standard, and I take at present two medicines on that list. Clindamycin is an anti-biotic, Amoxicillin is a weaker form of penicillin, Ventolin is meant to open up the lungs (it's an asthma medicine from my experience), nexium is something commonly given for acid reflux and Dulcolax is an over the counter stool softener.

[Disco Scratch]

Originally Posted by Dr. Na'vi

I don't even know how properly react to this in text form...

Only an expert in that field can diagnose you correctly ofc, but that paragraph and the way you express your feelings make me almost 100% sure that you also have some sort of depression.

That's just me being a realist. I'm optimistic and hopeful that maybe I'll find a doctor who realizes what this is and gets me the right treatment that will lead to the cure and allow me to get back to my life so I can maybe meet someone and maybe have kids or do all the things I've always wanted to do. The problem is once something goes on for so long and symptoms get to a certain point reality begins to kick in. Some people go to anger or denial. I've moved on to acceptance because I realize that I wasn't going to live forever anyway. I'm not sad or depressed. I'm not even angry. It is what it is. In the United States medical malpractice is the 3rd leading cause of death behind cancer and heart disease. I just happen to be among the unlucky ones. Though an unfortunate turn of events I found all the wrong doctors.