Has your doctor been wrong before?

Boy, do I ever! With the last three children I've had, about a couple months after they were born, I would break out with something bad. It seems to be a rash with one of them, but the other two caused me to get something that looked like wounds or bug bites. After my last baby, I had some clear bumps on my finger and that got infected, spreading over my hand. I'm sure it's a staph skin infection, but three doctors have said it's enzema. Yeah, ok, whatever. After three months, I still have it and DUH! I don't have the desire to look for another doctor.

oh yes i've definitely correct my doctor before. i won't really say it's the doctor's fault though. i was down with a bout of flu then. the doctor took one look at my swollen eye and said that the virus somehow went up to my eye through my nose. however, having had styes in my eyes for years, i knew that it was just a plain old stye. the doctor insisted that the swell was caused by the virus and prescribed anti-biotic eyedrops. i took it but didn't use it. a few days later, i visited another doctor and confirmed that it was just a stye. good thing i didn't use the eyedrops. sometimes doctors become complacent and treat every patient like they are the same. it's a risky stance and doctors will do good to remember that patients should know their own body best. cheers ;p

I have a pain in my left side that three doctors have told me "there is nothing there." Excuse me? I don't know what to say, but the pain is getting worse over time. Guess I'll just have to wait until it requires a visit to the ER. Maybe when the bill comes, I'll tell them, "But there's nothing there!" A doctor once treated me separately for three symptoms: Exhaustion, hair loss and weight gain. The second doctor told me I had kidney disease which explained all three symptoms.

My husband had an ongoing skin condition on one hand. I loved my doctor, but he kept asking questions and never coming up with an answer. I did diagnose it myself, after reading an article in Prevention. It was a yeast infection. Hubby had to take oral antifungals for a long time to clear it up. I really have been fortunate in my choices of doctors in this town. They all three usually listen to me.

Oh my last doctor was a work of art. Let's see: 1) Said that my tests results came back negative. Strangely enough when my new doctor and a specialist looked at them, they sent me to another neurologists for a second option. They did the tests again, and something odd was on them which showed up on the FIRST set of tests. So they are still testing on that. 2) He thought I may be diabetic, but never bothered to test for it because I have an issue with needles. Never mind there were other tests he could have done. (And a different specialist he sent me to did them and the issue I had to see that specialist for had nothing to DO with diabities!) 3) Never got back to me on some test results without me nagging him. 4) Never WARNED me before he retired that due to certain meds he had me on (Which another specialist put me on for reasons unknown) it would be hard for me to get a new doctor. Suffice to say he was...not fun.

Yes of course, they are just humans liable to make mistakes. But they are really trained not to make mistakes because they are dealing with lives. But still most of the doctors nowadays are overworked, underpaid, sleep deprived because of the dwendling numbers of doctors. It does not offer a good and high salary. Some doctors even see 50 patients a day in third world countries because of the ratio of patient to doctors. So better watch out of a haggard looking doctors, he might been awake for 24 hours already....

Yes, I too have had this happen. Without the knowledge of test answers, you know your body better than your doctor. That's why they are 'practicing' medicine. They don't know everything and only go by what you tell them, and then by what the tests tell them. It's really kinda scary.

hi zel. i believe we know our body the best. we know when somthing is wrong with it, and usually we have enough time and patience to experiment like you did and find out what is the problem. yes. my doctor was wrong a few times, she just jumped to conclusion, and that is a pity. i go to the doctor about once a year, usually for blood tests. most of the problems i try to resolve for myself. the "no reason" answer that your doctor gave you, is very irresponsible.

Yep! Sure did. The head of Pediatrics at our local hospital said point blank that my daughter would have severe learning disabilities manifesting by the time she was about 18 months. Well she's four 1/2 now and she's the smartest kid I've ever met. Such wisdom too. Doctor's are idiots!

I was having problems with my menstral cycle and I asked the doctor to have a hysterectomy, he said no there is no need to have one that I should have a hysteroscopy. he said that it would be best and that I won't have any problems after that. well I did have problems, he kept telling me its just a fluke that it will fix itself. Well a few months later it didn't fix itself and I wound up getting the hysterectomy. Then I was having problems after the surgery. He said the pain was nothing. I wound up having a staph infection. what a huge mess up. I'm glad its over and done with. it took me a long time to recover from that.

Zelo- It's a good thing you know your body so well. Not everyone has that awareness. Doctors don't want their patients to be educated or second guess them. The American Health Care System is based on profit. Doctors want money and they rush their patients without paying attention. If you find a doctor who doesn't, don't let them go. The most telling incident for me was from a visit to a neurologist. After discussing my symptoms, he told me point blank, "I can flip a coin and come up with a diagnosis that is right or wrong. I only have a 50 50 % chance of diagnosing you. At least he was honest.

zeloguy hi oh yes just not too long ago,first he diagnosed me as having an attack of divertiulitis and I kept saying it felt different but he went ahead and prescribed t wo different antibiotics. the next day I broke out over half myabdomen adn i called his office to get an appt to see him, and instead 'got booted to the ER so when I got there at acost of fifty dollars.I waited for a lng time for the doctor to tell me what in heck was wrong and he took one look at my abdomen and said i have good news and bad news. you do nothave diverticulitis, you have shingles oh joy oh ouch so its been over eight weeks and am not rid of them yet but am feeling much better.

I used to go to a doctor who was wrong most of the time. I always ended up spending the money to go to a better doctor and getting cured by him instead. Maybe thats why he gave credit. I once owed him for three months. He drives a broken down car in a city where every other doctor earns better mnoey than a banker. I am amazed by him. He smokes in his office and advises his patients not to smoke. What a guy !

Well I was 17 with reoccuring bladder infections the drs didnt know why I kept getting them but they said I had nothing to worry about but boy were they wrong I went to a specialist and found a lovely tumor and turned out half of it had cancer in it.

I find it funny now with doctors, you go there they ask you what you are there for and you spell it all out for them, and they pay no attention to you at all. And you have to beg for the test that you feel you need. I come to Ohio from down south, I have been on the same medicine since I had the heart attack in 1998, you tell the doctor what you taking and it must be working if you still alive and it's no you dont' need that, well maybe she thinks so, but I think different. I have had to change doctors several times before I found one that will listen to you. I think they get so many people that complain about having some ailment and it is that nothing is wrong with them, it is more for attention than being sick and they treat everyone that way at first. I try to bring whatever papers I have from the other doctors and hospital stays so that they can see what problems I am having.

My doctor told me 3 years ago it would take a miracle for me to get pregnant again.Well my daughter just turned 1 last week so I would say that he was quite wrong with his diagnosis.

Yes, and it could have cost me my life. I went to the dermatologist to have a mole examined. It grew fast (within a year), was the size of my thumbnail, and so irregularly shaped it almost looked like a warped star. It also had three different colorshadings. I mean, duh, you read of that to be typical signs for skin cancer, but he just claimed it's nothing. Only after I insisted on a biopsy he reluctantly did it and sent it in. Three days later I got a call to come in ASAP. Turns out it was cancerous but fortunately was caught in time that a big incision removal would take care of things. If I would have believed the guy and not insisted on the biopsy, as fast as that thing grew in the first place... I don't want to think about it. I have to note, he did apologize over and over and over again. I just hope he learned his lesson and won't be so careless with other patients in the future. And yes, as soon as I switched insurance companies, I switched to another, more concerned, doctor. Doctors don't know everything. They can fail. You, the patient, is in charge of your own healthcare. Only you know your body and know that something is seriously wrong even though the doctor says is nothing. If you have that nagging feeling and your complaints fall on deaf ears it's time for a second or even third opinion and some research of your own. A sad but true reality.

At eighteen years of age, i was experiencing numbness in my finger tips, double vision, headaches etc. I went to my doctor, he got book and started asking me questions, "is your hair falling out", "are you having trouble breathing" etc. I do have allergies, but that was not the problem, nonetheless, he prescribes allergy medicine for me. I am getting no better, now I am staggering when I try to walk, my speech is slurred. I go to another doctor, and he admitted me into the hospital for tests. I was in the hospital for one month. The prognosis was that I had MS, when I left the hospital I was told that I would be in remission for 15 years, and then the symptoms would reappear, and that I would probably be bined to a wheelchair. that was more than 30 years ago. I still do not believe I had or have MS. So that goes to show that doctor's do not know everything, I had a neurologist as well so I guess the final diagnosis was his.

Luckily, I haven't been diagnosed yet so I haven't experienced that thing. So far, my doctor never fails me.

Lol well when that happen I think you need a new doctor.. Just kidding that'd be a horrible thing to say to someone, maybe your doctor just feels hes better qualified to make those decisions and such. Or that coul all be just a load and your doctor is just stuck up. Answering your question i'd have to say no. I don't visit the doctors often and the times i do are mostly for check-ups and physicals. But if i had a broken bone and my doctor looked at me and my bent arm and said nothing was wrong, then I'd get a new doctor.