What was the last thing you attended the doctors for?
By killahclaire
@killahclaire (3665)
March 18, 2008 10:09pm CST
I was very unhealthy as a young child. I caught everything that was going and have actually had some long stays in hospital but it occured to me yesterday (when someone was accusing me of wasting my countrys NHS money by being a smoker) that I have not beent to the doctors in a long while.
I am not saying that I intend to go as I have not been in a while. It is just nice to think that at last my health seems to be balancing out.
I think the last thing I went with was just a bad viral infection about a year ago that seemed to look like glandular fever.
Crazy thing was it came on within a few days and when I went to the doctors they tested me for glandular Fever, oh I think in the states it is called Mono. I phoned my friend afterwards and he said he had just been tested for the same thing.
We both came back negative though thankfully.
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@bronie123 (4587)
• United States
20 Mar 08
Ah yeah thats called mononucleosus I beleive here in USA :)
Im glad that you have been well for some time. Well me on the other hand i just had to go the my "women's doctor" yesterday to get help with a certain problem and turns out he thinks it because of my current birth control so he switched my pill yay!!!
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@killahclaire (3665)
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20 Mar 08
Well that is good that they have came up with an easy solution to whatever your problem is. There is nothing worse than when you are left feeling like it is something irregular about you.
Good luck and thanks for responding.
@wolfie34 (26771)
• United Kingdom
19 Mar 08
I hate going to see my doctor, she is so cold, unfeeling and treats you like a nuisance, as though you are taking up her valuable time. I had a bad sore throat and after a reluctant cursory glance tried to prescribe me penacillin, had she of checked my records she would have found I was highly allergic to penacillin so I had to tell her, and it was like tut tut my fault. I get more compassion from the local tom cat. I had a few questions to ask her but it was like it was all too much trouble.
@killahclaire (3665)
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20 Mar 08
Yeah some doctors are like that and I suppose it is cos they are busy. When I was younger I was taking seizures. For years I was taking them and he kept referring me to specialists but they would rule out that it wasn't whatever they dealt with and I would be sent back to the general one and he was starting to get really peed off with cos he didn't know what wrong.
It wasn't my fault I was fitting all over the place. I had to explain to him one day that it wasn't my fault and that I would rather not be doing it.
@AmbiePam (93739)
• United States
20 Mar 08
Ah Mono, what they call the 'kissing disease.' Funny, I've never had it, but most kids who got it, got it from putting their mouths too close to the water fountain spout. Had nothing to do with kissing for them! : )
Well, I have several doctors as I'm not entirely healthy, but I'll assume you mean the primary care physician one has. The last time I saw him, a couple months ago, was for a mysterious rash on my wrists. It was just large red spots, no pattern like a rash usually has. We went over everything we could think of to see if I had an allergy, but nothing. I had put off going for a month, thinking aloe would cure it, but it didn't. So I got a prescription for some cream. And it works. But once I stop using it, the rash comes back. He thinks it is stress, but I really don't think so.
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@AmbiePam (93739)
• United States
20 Mar 08
It's similar here. If I need to see a neurologist, I have to get a referral from my regular physician. Same with if I need to go see a rheumatologist. Each visit has to have a referral from my regular doctor. The waiting list is usually a month for the first appointment.
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@killahclaire (3665)
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20 Mar 08
I think the shortest amount of time I had to wait for a referral was about 3 months.
And the longest I had to wait was 10 months for a brain MRI scan. And when I got there I was the only patient in the whole entire department.
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@killahclaire (3665)
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20 Mar 08
Very random that you keep getting that rash. Is it like symmetry. I once had a rash on the inside of my arms and both of them were the exact same thing. The only thing they could link it to was that I had just been to a slate mine. They say that apparently the dust must have irritated them.
Aye, here in Scotland you only get one doctor. Just your general practicioner and sometimes they send you off to see someone else but you have to be referred and then go on a massive waiting list. You can't just decide yourself to go and see a specific kind of doctor or make appointments without your GP seeing it all first.
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@just2crazygirlz (2479)
• United States
19 Mar 08
I went to the doctor yesterday. I had to get my depo provera shot. It's birth control. You get a shot every 3 months. I usually get it in my hip, but yesterday the nurse just took me back in the office real quick while other patients had to wait. She gave me the shot in my arm. By the time, I got home I thought my arm was going to fall off. I couldn't life it higher than my shoulder. It is still sore today. Didn't bruise tho. I thought it might since I bruise really easy.
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@killahclaire (3665)
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19 Mar 08
Yeah they do say that if the nurse does it right then there should be no trace of it.
I didn't know that you could get jags done in your hip. I may consider that the next time I need to get ones done.
I actually need to get some immunisations done that I never got as a child due to other health reasons.
@bfarrier1 (2082)
• United States
19 Mar 08
I hate going to the doctor so I always try to be doctorB and cure myself first but 2 weeks ago after being sick for a week and half and I couldn't cure myself I had to go. There has been this terrible flu going around and thats what it was dr.said no one was getting over it with out antibotics I was feeling better but woke up today with the headache and sore throat again so I called the doctor and she called me in another round of the antibotics so hopefully I don't get it full blown again as I was a very sick person.Have a great day and stay healthy!
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@killahclaire (3665)
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19 Mar 08
Oh goodness that sounds terrible. I must admit that I actually just make a trip to the parmacist generally instead of the doctors myself.
I thought that anti-biotics could not treat the flu. They always had notices up in the doctors saying nothing can cure the flu so don't waste appointments with it.
@gemini_rose (16264)
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20 Mar 08
I last went to the doctors in August last year, I had a hysterectomy in late July and I had over 100 stitches on my insides, about a week after the op, I developed an infection and had to go on antibiotics, they seemed to clear it up and so at the beginning of august we went on holiday. I became ill while I was on holiday and as soon as I came back home went back to the doctors and ended up on antibiotics again, it was really horrible. Oh and I am with you on the being a drain on the countries NHS money as I too am a smoker! Yet I am hardly ever at the docs, I have not had a cold for about 2 years or a cough or any chest ailment or anything!
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@killahclaire (3665)
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20 Mar 08
Thank you Gemini. At least someone else understand that just cos we are smokers doesn't mean that we are walking around dying. I am perfectly aware what smoking does to you and I know I shouldn't do it but that girl gave me such a hard time when it was totally irrelevent.
So have your insides healed up now?
@gemini_rose (16264)
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20 Mar 08
I think all smokers are aware of what they are doing to themselves, it just annoys me that no one ever picks on all those others addicts to things and the drain they are on NHS resources! Yes my insides are fine now, thanks for asking!
@killahclaire (3665)
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19 Mar 08
In cast? Wow I did not know that they done that for a torn tendon, even on the achilles heel.
So was that at your doctors surgery that this was done? In the Uk you would need to go to the emergency room for that kind of treatment.
@jeanniemay (1798)
• Philippines
20 Mar 08
My last visit to the doctor was for a follow up test. I had been in the hospital for a week on the last weelf of February for having a high fever due to my tonsillitis infection. I haven;t thought it would turn out that bad.
I have recurring tonsil infection in the past 3 years and my doctor is really having a good client in me. 
@killahclaire (3665)
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20 Mar 08
My friend often gets severe tonsilittis and I can just imagine how much pain he is in. Normally I go up and sit with him but most of the time he is lucky if he can even stay awake or get up to go to the bathroom.
You take care of those tonsils.
