Okay, they are studying for about 6-8 years? before going solo as a General Practitioner, but why is it that the majority of doctors I have went to do not have a clue what they are doing? Is it just my bad luck?

Please tell me YOUR stories of when you went to have something checked and it turned out they diagnosed you wrong, couldnt find out or you found out by yourself at the end without their help?

My stories;




When I was 16, these little horrible smelling clumps were coming from the back of my throat and I was having an unwell feeling in my stomach.
I went to the doctor, nothing, I went to the hospital, they did an endoscopy on me which was horrible and couldnt find anything. They were both stumped.
I suspected I was having a food intolerance (which the doctor never suspected either) so I cut out all wheat and dairy cause I was eating mainly sandwhiches for lunch at school and ta-da! It eventually stopped, and those horrible clumps were tonsil stones which according to the Wiki, some doctors say that cutting weat and dairy can help, though its unfounded, it worked a miracle for me. So basically the internet and my own gut instinct literally told me what the doctors couldnt. It was so simple? yet I ended up with an endoscopy

Thinking doctors in America would know what they were doing, I was on holiday and I had bad circulation in general, I have a small varicose vein that gives a dead pain all the time, Im a normal BMI, and my hands and feet felt extremely cold all the time. Where I was holidaying, was extremely hot and it aggravated me, dizziness, pins and needles in my hands and feet when they used to be cold and having to sit in a car to go every where didnt help either to stimulate ciculation. It made me a huge crank because I was used to walking every where and I ended doing everything the American way, in a car.

I went to the docs, told him my predicament, but all he could see was my anxiety and frustration from having this problem and he gave me a 30 day trial pack of these well dodgy anti-depressants and these were some serious stuff. How the fuck can a doctor prescribe anti-depresssants just cause you feel bad about a blood circulation problem???????????????????????/

WTF?

Please, share you story..

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My doctor is very sweet but not very informed. When I went to her about changing my contraceptive pill, she was like "Well, what brand do your friends like and I'll swap you to that?" I also had suspected leishmaniasis which she googled in front of me. I was like, hang on, I could do that. Also, I had a kidney infection over christmas and was on two antibiotics, first doxycycline and trimethoprim, then they changed the doxy for cephalexin (which I'd had before). Three days later, I developed a massive rash, so they concluded I must be allergic to the cephalexin, because I had started that recently and the trimethoprim 9 days before. So they stopped me taking that. The next day, I took my trimethoprim and my throat started swelling up. I went to hospital and was like, what the fuck, and they told me it must still be the cephalexin in my system. Went home and googled it and apparently the average time it takes for a trimethoprim allergy to develop is....9 days. I told my doctor and she was suprised, she'd never heard that before.

When I was 14, I had a child psychiatrist who put me on prozac (bad idea number 1, I was suspected bipolar). It made me manic. I went back and she doubled my dose. I got worse, realised I was off my rocker and went back saying "the side effects list mania and say to stop taking it". She went "Oh really, I've never read the side effects of Prozac before". Interesting when it is your job to prescribe it.

Best of all though was a doctor I saw in Australia for my asthma. She asked me what I was taking and I said "beclomethasone". She looked blank, so I told her the brand name, "Qvar". She still looked blank. I went "the brown inhaler". She finally caught on. Alarming since that is probably THE most commonly prescribed asthma drug....

in this case the doctors were right. your gut instinct means squat if you're not medically trained, and self diagnosis by the internet is dangerous.

i think they were right to do an endoscopy as it could have been something serious. also what you describe isn't a typical symptom of a wheat/dairy intolerance, and as you say the internet links are unfounded. there's no peer reviewed research/proof

be thankful they did an endoscopy and took you seriously. some people die of problems because they aren't listened to and are told they have something minor like an intolerance. i know someone with ovarian cancer who was told for years she had IBS.

i had severe endometriosis on my bowel. they spent over a year making me cut wheat, eggs, dairy out of my diet and trying various silly herbal remedies and were insistent i had IBS, despite the pain being very severe and the symptoms not fitting with IBS at all. after a while they gave up trying to diagnose me and just put me on a whopping dose of painkillers every day. i had to pay to see a gynaecologist privately, as i felt from research and family history it may have been a problem like endometriosis. if i hadn't have pushed this, i'd probably never have been diagnosed.

But the issue is the doctors are still incompetant whether the problem is looking too much into it or not enough which was your case. At the end of the day it was up to you to "push it" as you said, and it was your pushing that helped find what it was, not the doctor.
Im not into pure self diagnosis but you know yourself, looking stuff up will only help if the doctors cant find anything. What I had was simple, I had tonsil stones, wheat intolerance wasnt my biggest concern, I saved and showed them the ugly clumps I was bringing up and they hadnt a fucking clue when its there in front of their nose and there's no mistaking them to see and smell if they had even heard of it.

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Having a crap illnes like m.e/chronic fatigue means i generally get shit doctors. Since the onset i've had bad heart problems which all doctors for over 6 years put down to 'm.e' but after being house bound for most of that and being so ill i started writing letters to more speicalists, they all univerallsy agreed it wasn't classic symptoms to the illness. So off my own bat i'm now seeing eminemt professionals who are investigating and turns out i may not even have had m.e at all. 5 years down the pan because doctors want to brush you off.

I've also had the rudest ones and been hung up on the phone before after calling for a home visit.

Some are ok, but some are unduely shit.

My best advise is, if you don't agree, go with your gut insticts and get a second opinion.