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Re: Everything is fine » Racer

Posted by Maxime on April 11, 2005, at 20:43:10

In reply to Re: Everything is fine » Maxime, posted by Racer on April 11, 2005, at 18:12:39

Racer, I can't talk like that to anyone. I just can't. Besides, I am not going to be on any more anti-depressants. It ends now. There is nothing left for me to try ... not in this country anyway. And I think I am just one of those people who does respond to meds. Lord knows I have tried enough.

I have never been a hypochondriac. In fact I am the opposite. I usually assume that whatever I am feeling is psychosomatic and I brushed it off and just put up with it.

Thyroid problems and depression are intertwined. I've read that it can take up to a year before you feel normal after having a thyroid problem and many people never feel the same again.

I'm not pursuing it any further. I am not going to complain ever again about I feel. I am just going to "be". Eventually it will consume me and then I will be at peace. I have no purpose. There is no great plan for me. It's just me and Darwin.

Maxime
> This makes me so frustrated. Just when you most need to be able to speak up for yourself and listen, you're feeling too rotten to do it. And the doctors take advantage of our vulnerability.
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> Now, he did say, though, that the physical symptoms you're experiencing could be related to anti-depressants? Fine. In that case, you have something to take with you to the pdoc -- and, if he says that it's not the meds, you tell him that the endo didn't want to hear it from you, so he'll have to call himself. And when he tells you that it's not his job to talk to your other doctor, have yourself a merry little tantrum on his rug: "The endo wouldn't listen to me, he said it was your problem. Now you won't listen to me, you say it's his problem! What in the [expletive deleted] am I supposed to do, if you both keep PASSING THE BUCK?" And if none of that gets him motivated, tell him that you are really unhappy about having real physical problems shoved aside as "merely hypochondriasis."
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> Bad word! It's ever so easy, isn't it, to blame it all on hypochondria when a doctor can't figure out what's going on. That's where I start getting snarky with doctors: "Gee, doc, I've been told that that's what doctors say when they just don't have the skills to diagnose a complex problem -- but I know it's not what you're doing..."
>
> Ugh. I'm sorry, Maxime. I know that everything is NOT fine, and I really hope that someone outside this little online community will take you seriously and get you some relief!

 

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