why I don't trust doctors...

[BardTard]

I had my check-up today (I'm epileptic, meaning, I have seizures) and first of all, the doctor was late as usual, by like an hour... so I was just waiting in there forever and almost fell asleep. But anywho.

The real rant. The reason I'm posting this. When I was finished with the check-up the doctor mentioned an EEG (electroencephologram... or something... it's a brain scan). Well, I'm not doing it. Wanna know why?

BECAUSE HERE IS PROOF DOCTORS ARE DUMBASSES:

The last time I had an EEG, I almost had a seizure. Almost=my body started jerking and my head felt funny and I was confused, and my mom watched me and flipped out. Why did this happen? Because the doctors put a strobe light in front of me, which if you don't know, is hazardous to epileptic people. Why did they do this? They wanted to see if it would bother me or not. To do the EEG, I have to do weird stuff, like close my eyes and not be asleep, and then fall asleep, and then wake up and relax, and answer questions so they know I'm alright... so to be able to fall asleep during the EEG, I have to stay up the night before.

In case you don't know this too, sleep deprivation is also more likely to cause seizures. So putting a strobe light in front of an epileptic person just to see if it would bother them is... not helping any. Definitely stupid. Of course it's going to bother me. It's as if they're going out of their way to give me a seizure, because the last time I had a seizure was about 4 years ago maybe. If I had a bottomless bottle of Topomax (medication I take to control seizures) and didn't have to get refills or go to check ups or have brain scans, my life would be completely normal.

Sorry, I just had to rant about that. I don't understand why they have to be so dumb... like... what's the purpose of an EEG? Are they trying to kill me? Also just thought I'd warn anybody else who's epileptic about how incredibly dumb this is.

[Megami]

Well, once I had a health problem that bothered me for 2 nights, I visited 3 doctors, only the 3rd helped me.

Some doctors are just..not good.

But nobody is perfect and they don't know everything.. I guess

[BardTard]

Well, once I had a health problem that bothered me for 2 nights, I visited 3 doctors, only the 3rd helped me.

Some doctors are just..not good.

But nobody is perfect and they don't know everything.. I guess

They should at least have the common sense to not put a strobe light in front of an epileptic person who is sleep deprived. I mean, they are doctors. That's sort of along the lines of giving a box of chocolates to a diabetic person with no insulin.

[Little Blue]

From what I've seen though (note, I'm no medical expert, just someone with a tv), this is a major issue on the whole anyway. Doctors need to find what the trigger is to know what the cause is. I don't know your medical history, but was you a known epileptic before your first eeg or only a suspected epileptic?

Similar things happen (or used to happen a few years ago) with diabetics. They have to drink a litre of sugar solution and wait a bit to see if the body deals with the sugar like it should. Yet too much sugar in a diabetics blood can be fatal.

Hell, even vacinations could be called backward logic. The injection of sometimes live viruses or bacterium into ones body so that the immune system can build a defense against them. My mum had the flu jab this year and a week later she fell ill with mild flu symptoms.

I guess its just the fact that medics aren't mind readers / all knowing miracle worker and need proof of stuff that isn't that easy to prove otherwise... Also, doctors do make mistakes, but they do usually try to help so don't hold it against them. (unless they're murderous or imbeciles )

[Quindiana Jones]

I don't mind doctors. It's dentists I don't trust. They always try to give me a filling.

[Bunny]

I haven't been to a doctor or dentist since 1969.

[Roto13]

From what I've seen though (note, I'm no medical expert, just someone with a tv), this is a major issue on the whole anyway. Doctors need to find what the trigger is to know what the cause is. I don't know your medical history, but was you a known epileptic before your first eeg or only a suspected epileptic?

Similar things happen (or used to happen a few years ago) with diabetics. They have to drink a litre of sugar solution and wait a bit to see if the body deals with the sugar like it should. Yet too much sugar in a diabetics blood can be fatal.

Hell, even vacinations could be called backward logic. The injection of sometimes live viruses or bacterium into ones body so that the immune system can build a defense against them. My mum had the flu jab this year and a week later she fell ill with mild flu symptoms.

I guess its just the fact that medics aren't mind readers / all knowing miracle worker and need proof of stuff that isn't that easy to prove otherwise... Also, doctors do make mistakes, but they do usually try to help so don't hold it against them. (unless they're murderous or imbeciles :p)

Yup yup.

[Avarice-ness]

Speaking as a person who went to doctors all my life and now do my best to avoid them even if it means my demise..

The doctors have to test what level your epilepsy is, regardless if it seems retarded, they have to see (*points up to duality*) what triggers it. The strobe prolly has different levels and each level determins what the severity your epilepsy ranks on. It's not that they didn't know what they were doing (because there most likely was a nuerologist in the room and not just idiotic nurses) it's the fact that you do have a disorder that -can- change do another level. One day a fast strobe may trigger it, the next a strobe flashing every 2 seconds can trigger it.

From my own experience of doctors doing -everything- to see what's going on, I had caught Mono and had it for about 6 months (Yay crappy immune system~) it took 5 blood tests and a bruised arm that I couldn't move for a while with out pain setting in to realize EVERY TIME IT SAID NEGATIVE IT WAS A -FALSE- NEGATIVE. But they kept testing to make sure because they didn't want to tell me I had mono with out a positive in my blood work. They have to check -every- possible venture to get the best diagnoses.

Look at it this way, if you have a seizure in the doctors office, how bad can it be, You're already at the doctors!

[Sergeant Hartman]

Down with strobe lights!

[theundeadhero]

My doctor always tells me to drink water, take ibuprofein (like I know how to spell <i>that!</i>), and walk it off, no matter what the problem is. Awesome, huh. I live in a world where they discourage going to the doctor when your sick unless you're dying and can't get to them yourself. So, I've been tired, cold, sick, and achy, along with wet at work, for three days now.

[BardTard]

From what I've seen though (note, I'm no medical expert, just someone with a tv), this is a major issue on the whole anyway. Doctors need to find what the trigger is to know what the cause is. I don't know your medical history, but was you a known epileptic before your first eeg or only a suspected epileptic?

Similar things happen (or used to happen a few years ago) with diabetics. They have to drink a litre of sugar solution and wait a bit to see if the body deals with the sugar like it should. Yet too much sugar in a diabetics blood can be fatal.

Hell, even vacinations could be called backward logic. The injection of sometimes live viruses or bacterium into ones body so that the immune system can build a defense against them. My mum had the flu jab this year and a week later she fell ill with mild flu symptoms.

I guess its just the fact that medics aren't mind readers / all knowing miracle worker and need proof of stuff that isn't that easy to prove otherwise... Also, doctors do make mistakes, but they do usually try to help so don't hold it against them. (unless they're murderous or imbeciles )

I was diagnosed with epilepsy when I was 11. The last time I had an EEG they were well aware of my epilepsy, I was 15 or 16 then, and I've had 5 seizures before. The causes of them were bright crappy computers that I have to turn the contrast and brightness all the way down (3 times), a really flashy episode of Sailor Moon and Quistis's Degenerator. I had a seizure but hey I won! I was 11 when I had my first seizure and 12/13 when I had the others, and I'm 17 now, so it's been a while since I had a seizure. They know I'm epileptic and not just suspected epileptic, and if something as simple as typing on a computer and using Degenerator gives me a seizure, then it's likely a strobe light will. Especially when I'm sleep deprived.

Look at it this way, if you have a seizure in the doctors office, how bad can it be, You're already at the doctors!

It actually wouldn't make any difference. Medical attention isn't required unless it's the first time a person has a seizure, or the person is pregnant, or it's an injury-induced seizure, or stuff like that. Like, if I just have a seizure from a strobe light I don't need any attention when I wake up from it. Whenever I wake up I'm really tired and start crying cus I get freaked out (seizures are really scary) and then my mom helps me get to my bed cus I have no energy and my legs feel really weak and I need to lay down. So it doesn't matter where I'd be at, really. I'd rather be at home than the doctor's office, to be honest.

[-N-]

You guys are right. You should never go to the doctor.































Hopefully now I won't have to wait as long when I go to the doctor.stfu kant

[LimitBreaker]

i hate them they send you a message saying please come early so i do and the people who signed in last, for some reason go first. once i waited for hours and when i went in then out.

[Tifa's Real Lover(really]

i hate them they send you a message saying please come early so i do and the people who signed in last, for some reason go first. once i waited for hours and when i went in then out.

same here

[- - - TAURUS - - -]

They just want your money 90% of the time.