Okay, so I really know I've not been around in a long while, and there are an aload of new people running amuck, but I need some advice from those I know here, who know about my situation and anyone who can follow along and help me out.
I want to make it clear that the sueing my doctor question falls mainly in the idea that he has been treating me for 12 years and has disregarded the severity of my condition and has been extreamly apathetic to doing what is right for me. This whole schpeal is about why I have been advised to sue him but I need other opinions, than just one.
Last week, I had the CT scan run and I had an appointment for yesterday lined up for an insulin phoresis and some other panels and a pathology smear on my blood, and having ruled out diabetes and seeing high insulin, this was fine by me to have done.
My doctor told me he'd call me when he started getting test results in, and he hasn't. My CT scan results are in by now and he hasn't called me.
Good news or not, it is his job not to delay and he is.
Well, I showed up at the appointment at the pathology labs yesterday and they are telling me all about what they are going to do, and I was ready to have blood and pee drained and all that crap. Then she said after they tested my sugar urine, that they'd make me drink... Glucola. I immediately said "Does that shit have color in it?" and she said "yeah, it's orange".
doublemuthafucking
So I said "you don't have clear sugar water or whatever? and they said "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO" (you know that long drawn out sloooooow motion 'no' you see in movies when a person is totally dissapointed. Yep. ) I said "unless you want to be admitting me into Toledo Hospital about 15 minutes to an hour after I drank the first drink then I can not take the test."
Well, They told me I could try a different Path lab right down the road, but I would have to schedual to get the test done because it is a three hour test.
Well, as mad as I was, I was glad I went to the other place.
Okay, well, I handed the lady the order and said "I have to schedual an appointment for the GTT, and the other I want to have the other stuff done today." She said "Their best done together." and having been able to only get in next wednesday for the phoresis, I started to cry. I knew it would be another two fucking weeks before I could know that I don't have leukemia and the lady asked me what was wrong and I told her that I didn't want to have to wait anymore to find out if I have cancer, because if I do I've had it for a year, and I need treatment.
She asked me how long I'd been sick for and I told her that all my life I've not been quite right, but in my teens I would get really sick to the point of having to be hospitalized a lot and I'd have to deal with shit.
Well, I clued her in and she just was like....
"Your doctor is just now running these tests on you?" I said "appearantly" and she just told me that I need to get a different doctor and to contact and attorney. She said that he should have done these tests within the first two years of my being his patient, as I've now been for 12 years. I explained that I don't really know if I want to sue him, but I've got grounds to, but I don't fully know my rights.
See, this isn't a matter of strict incompetence. This is a matter of sheer apathy on his part. He has 'sort of' treated me over the years. I would come in his office and try to give him the big picture and he insists on only focusing on symptoms and treating them as the condition.
There is a lot more to all of this, but my visit with him last wednesday was hell, and I totally see that he hasn't been doing what I've been paying for him to do. Two years ago, I complained of the exact same problems, boils, infections, constant nausea and vomiting, excessive weight gain and an inability to loose, because I was already not eating practicly.
He would cut me off while trying to explain, roll his eyes up and chalk it up to something that he really had no proof for. This is how he treated me for 7 years, and I was forced to stay there by my mother because she was convinced he was right. Fucker. Until two years ago when she was with me on that visit. She said she wanted to choke him by the time we left there.
He shrugged it all of to GERD because I am fat and that puts pressure on my organs and makes my stomach sick. I pressured him to justify that by the fact that I've been sick with the stomach problems since the age of 16 or so and then I weighed 120 pounds. WTF?????
See, he treats symptoms, not conditions. That is wrong. I am a whole person and everything that happens in my system is caused by conditions, not individual small things. Well, he told me I had to find the answer myself. What the fuck was I paying him for?
I said this last week, but what is really pissing me off is that I went in there after two weeks time of his office recieving documents on mast cell... It was explained to the lady that this was a disease he needed to look into and to consider the way we should go about being tested for it.
I also included this synopsis of my symptoms for him to read and have sorted all out in his brain so he could know what I've endured specifically and how it may relate or not, to this or other rare diseseases, since I was under the assumption that we had ruled out every common thing that it could be during my many tests at the hospital. I did this so he wouldn't be tempted to cut me off mid sentence trying to tell him about it all as I've done on four or five occasions only to be cut off and written off.
This is what I gave him. Clear, cut and dry, with little or nothing left out.
Synopsis of my symptoms:
As a child:
Sudden bouts of stomach problems, vomiting, and such, that would last for longer than a flu period, but that where diagnosed as the flu.
Constant colds, and flues that lasted longer than other kids. (I always missed more school than any other children)
As a teen: Same stuff as when I was a child but far worse.
Bouts of gas expansion and release that would be continuous for up to 6 hours after eating anything, but would seem to come on after I ate things that later I correlated to having food coloring in them, but I didn’t always react or ‘flair up’ when eating food coloring. I could eat canned corn and it would make me flair up really bad.
In those bouts, my stomach seemed to ‘shut off’ and stop digesting and eventually I’d vomit from the noxious gases forming. I would literally get a toxic feeling in my body, like I’d have been mildly poisoned. My senses would distort and I’d get horrid smells in my nose of decaying organic matter. This continues to this day, but since I’ve cut out all food coloring, it seems to happen less and less. I have had one 3 week bout this year already.
As and adult: The stomach matters have remained the same. I am constantly nauseated. I’ve become constantly prone to boils in my armpits, crotch, under my breasts, and on my inner thighs. I get yeast infections, sometimes very severe like the one described in the email, at least three times a year, maybe more. For the last three years I’ve hurt in my body really bad, and I have not had any relief of it, because every time I take ibuprofen I get sick and puke.
I tend to have scalp problems, that don’t go away with the use of special dandruff shampoo.
I have noticed out of moderating it closely that my body temperature has not exceeded 97.4 in the last three years, and often, when I am really sick it will go down to as low as 96.2. When this has happened, I feel very faint, weak, and like I am in shock.
I’ve also begun, in the past two years, to wake up with bruises all over my inner arms, my legs and sometimes my back and stomach. Often they look like I’ve been stabbed repeatedly with a pencil or some other sharply pointed object, that cover in masses in those areas. I usually cannot attribute this to any injury, but when I do injure, the bruising is massive and usually exaggerated from what I’d expect to see.
Fucker never read it. I am furious. I wasted my time and now I come to find out that he didn't run tests that should have been done ages ago when they took blood from me and did tests before?
I forgot to mention that he was assuming that I'd been diagnosed with Mast Cell disease already? WTF? I'd be in Boston or Maryland if had that disease. What the fuck would I be doing at a general practioners office for a rare degenerative immune system disease. UGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG!!!
I am at wits end with all of this.
I am now ready to switch doctors, but should I sue him? It's been twelve years that I've lost a huge amount of my life. I am twenty eight and I am still in college, since 21, for fucking hell. That is 7 years and I have only completed half my BS and my Landscape degree is still two semesters away from being done, because I have had to take more classes to keep up with the increased program standards in order to graduate. I am alreday 32,000 in debt, nearly twice that of what it would be to have gone straight through school where I am at, if I had gone only for the four years I should have had to. All that because I have been totally impaired by my illnesses.
I can't pay for my medical bills because I can't work steadily and get insurance, and Dave's boss is a dick and hasn't offered him a benifits package or the pay he deserves for being the only landscape foreman of the company. That makes him a supervisor and he gets paid way under what he should. So dave is giving him an ultimatum and if it doesn't work, he is quitting going back to school one more semester and going to a bigger company that will pay him better for being a supervisor.
And if I find out that this is as simple as the fact that I have high insulin, I am going to flip my fucking gourd.
I really need help. I need to not be swayed by an attorney who would be making money from my sueing at this point though, so that is where some of you come in.
Oh my god people..
What do I do?
I want to make it clear that the sueing my doctor question falls mainly in the idea that he has been treating me for 12 years and has disregarded the severity of my condition and has been extreamly apathetic to doing what is right for me. This whole schpeal is about why I have been advised to sue him but I need other opinions, than just one.
Last week, I had the CT scan run and I had an appointment for yesterday lined up for an insulin phoresis and some other panels and a pathology smear on my blood, and having ruled out diabetes and seeing high insulin, this was fine by me to have done.
My doctor told me he'd call me when he started getting test results in, and he hasn't. My CT scan results are in by now and he hasn't called me.
Good news or not, it is his job not to delay and he is. Well, I showed up at the appointment at the pathology labs yesterday and they are telling me all about what they are going to do, and I was ready to have blood and pee drained and all that crap. Then she said after they tested my sugar urine, that they'd make me drink... Glucola.
I immediately said "Does that shit have color in it?" and she said "yeah, it's orange". doublemuthafucking So I said "you don't have clear sugar water or whatever? and they said "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO" (you know that long drawn out sloooooow motion 'no' you see in movies when a person is totally dissapointed. Yep. ) I said "unless you want to be admitting me into Toledo Hospital about 15 minutes to an hour after I drank the first drink then I can not take the test."
Well, They told me I could try a different Path lab right down the road, but I would have to schedual to get the test done because it is a three hour test.
Well, as mad as I was, I was glad I went to the other place.
Okay, well, I handed the lady the order and said "I have to schedual an appointment for the GTT, and the other I want to have the other stuff done today." She said "Their best done together." and having been able to only get in next wednesday for the phoresis, I started to cry. I knew it would be another two fucking weeks before I could know that I don't have leukemia and the lady asked me what was wrong and I told her that I didn't want to have to wait anymore to find out if I have cancer, because if I do I've had it for a year, and I need treatment.
She asked me how long I'd been sick for and I told her that all my life I've not been quite right, but in my teens I would get really sick to the point of having to be hospitalized a lot and I'd have to deal with shit.
Well, I clued her in and she just was like....
"Your doctor is just now running these tests on you?" I said "appearantly" and she just told me that I need to get a different doctor and to contact and attorney. She said that he should have done these tests within the first two years of my being his patient, as I've now been for 12 years. I explained that I don't really know if I want to sue him, but I've got grounds to, but I don't fully know my rights.
See, this isn't a matter of strict incompetence. This is a matter of sheer apathy on his part. He has 'sort of' treated me over the years. I would come in his office and try to give him the big picture and he insists on only focusing on symptoms and treating them as the condition.
There is a lot more to all of this, but my visit with him last wednesday was hell, and I totally see that he hasn't been doing what I've been paying for him to do. Two years ago, I complained of the exact same problems, boils, infections, constant nausea and vomiting, excessive weight gain and an inability to loose, because I was already not eating practicly.
He would cut me off while trying to explain, roll his eyes up and chalk it up to something that he really had no proof for. This is how he treated me for 7 years, and I was forced to stay there by my mother because she was convinced he was right. Fucker. Until two years ago when she was with me on that visit. She said she wanted to choke him by the time we left there.
He shrugged it all of to GERD because I am fat and that puts pressure on my organs and makes my stomach sick. I pressured him to justify that by the fact that I've been sick with the stomach problems since the age of 16 or so and then I weighed 120 pounds. WTF?????
See, he treats symptoms, not conditions. That is wrong. I am a whole person and everything that happens in my system is caused by conditions, not individual small things. Well, he told me I had to find the answer myself. What the fuck was I paying him for?
I said this last week, but what is really pissing me off is that I went in there after two weeks time of his office recieving documents on mast cell... It was explained to the lady that this was a disease he needed to look into and to consider the way we should go about being tested for it.
I also included this synopsis of my symptoms for him to read and have sorted all out in his brain so he could know what I've endured specifically and how it may relate or not, to this or other rare diseseases, since I was under the assumption that we had ruled out every common thing that it could be during my many tests at the hospital. I did this so he wouldn't be tempted to cut me off mid sentence trying to tell him about it all as I've done on four or five occasions only to be cut off and written off.
This is what I gave him. Clear, cut and dry, with little or nothing left out.
Synopsis of my symptoms:
As a child:
Sudden bouts of stomach problems, vomiting, and such, that would last for longer than a flu period, but that where diagnosed as the flu.
Constant colds, and flues that lasted longer than other kids. (I always missed more school than any other children)
As a teen: Same stuff as when I was a child but far worse.
Bouts of gas expansion and release that would be continuous for up to 6 hours after eating anything, but would seem to come on after I ate things that later I correlated to having food coloring in them, but I didn’t always react or ‘flair up’ when eating food coloring. I could eat canned corn and it would make me flair up really bad.
In those bouts, my stomach seemed to ‘shut off’ and stop digesting and eventually I’d vomit from the noxious gases forming. I would literally get a toxic feeling in my body, like I’d have been mildly poisoned. My senses would distort and I’d get horrid smells in my nose of decaying organic matter. This continues to this day, but since I’ve cut out all food coloring, it seems to happen less and less. I have had one 3 week bout this year already.
As and adult: The stomach matters have remained the same. I am constantly nauseated. I’ve become constantly prone to boils in my armpits, crotch, under my breasts, and on my inner thighs. I get yeast infections, sometimes very severe like the one described in the email, at least three times a year, maybe more. For the last three years I’ve hurt in my body really bad, and I have not had any relief of it, because every time I take ibuprofen I get sick and puke.
I tend to have scalp problems, that don’t go away with the use of special dandruff shampoo.
I have noticed out of moderating it closely that my body temperature has not exceeded 97.4 in the last three years, and often, when I am really sick it will go down to as low as 96.2. When this has happened, I feel very faint, weak, and like I am in shock.
I’ve also begun, in the past two years, to wake up with bruises all over my inner arms, my legs and sometimes my back and stomach. Often they look like I’ve been stabbed repeatedly with a pencil or some other sharply pointed object, that cover in masses in those areas. I usually cannot attribute this to any injury, but when I do injure, the bruising is massive and usually exaggerated from what I’d expect to see.
Fucker never read it.
I am furious. I wasted my time and now I come to find out that he didn't run tests that should have been done ages ago when they took blood from me and did tests before?I forgot to mention that he was assuming that I'd been diagnosed with Mast Cell disease already? WTF? I'd be in Boston or Maryland if had that disease. What the fuck would I be doing at a general practioners office for a rare degenerative immune system disease. UGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG!!!
I am at wits end with all of this.
I am now ready to switch doctors, but should I sue him? It's been twelve years that I've lost a huge amount of my life. I am twenty eight and I am still in college, since 21, for fucking hell. That is 7 years and I have only completed half my BS and my Landscape degree is still two semesters away from being done, because I have had to take more classes to keep up with the increased program standards in order to graduate. I am alreday 32,000 in debt, nearly twice that of what it would be to have gone straight through school where I am at, if I had gone only for the four years I should have had to. All that because I have been totally impaired by my illnesses.
I can't pay for my medical bills because I can't work steadily and get insurance, and Dave's boss is a dick and hasn't offered him a benifits package or the pay he deserves for being the only landscape foreman of the company. That makes him a supervisor and he gets paid way under what he should. So dave is giving him an ultimatum and if it doesn't work, he is quitting going back to school one more semester and going to a bigger company that will pay him better for being a supervisor.
And if I find out that this is as simple as the fact that I have high insulin, I am going to flip my fucking gourd.
I really need help. I need to not be swayed by an attorney who would be making money from my sueing at this point though, so that is where some of you come in.
Oh my god people..
What do I do?
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