Anyone hate medical situations?

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Women need to see there gyno once a year if they have a family history of cancer of the reprodutive organs <this incules fathers with prostate cancer> or cancers of the lower gi track. If they are over 18 or have starting being sexauly active. If you don't have this history once every two years is ok. I hate it but my mother had cancer as a young woman so I make a point to go. <-- is what I look like but better a once a year poke then cancer.

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I used to be better at dealing w/ dental/ medical situations, but have had some VERY bad experiences including but not limited to;
1) having a crown worked on when not fully numb
2) having 2 emergency c-sections, the first one in which no one even told me what the hell was going on and later learned I may not have had to have
3) this resulted in 2 more c-sections both with horrific inablity to place the spinal into me, injuring my tendons, muscles, ligaments and changing the way my spine is forever
4) Having braces for 4 yrs, retainers before hand and now one in there permanent that I can't even get a dentist to remove

Sigh~ I still do get pap smears, my maternal Grandmother saved her life from cervical cancer this way when she was quite young, so that is a must. My OB is a pretty good lady as far as NTs go, lol, and I trust her as much as I can any doc. She pretty much knows I don't do other docs and will get me the blood tests and screening I need each yr such as cholesterol and such. They have a lab right in the office, so it is both familiar and convient. If I hadn't found her, I may not have as easy a time doing what I ought to take care of myself.
The dental thing is a nightmare. For some reason I am hard to numb, also when I get into a really worked up flux, the Nitrous Oxide won't do a thing for me. Last time I freaked out so much the dentist refused to finish, b/c she didn't want to try any more shots to numb me, she just had me make another appointment. Grrrr. There are a whole host of things that bother me about the dentist, not the least of which is the simple fact that someone is sitting behind my head! That drives me crazy! I can't stand not to face the doorway of a room w/ my back to the wall. I fell all exposed and vulnerable and plus w/ my sensory issues I like to see what is coming b4 I hear/ feel it.
So much more I could say about this one...won't for the sake of time/ space, but glad I am not the only one!

I hate going to the doctor and dentist because I hate being touched by most people and find it painful. However, I dislike the doctor more. Especially when it comes to pap smears or anything like that. I don't handle it well and cry a lot.

*shudder* I hate being touched. I handle the dentist ok usually, I did have a bad experience recently though. The needle which was to numb me pierced a nerve at the back of my jaw, which really hurt, and up to about a week later I was still having burning tingling pains in my chin.

I can't handle the thought of the rest of the things Euuwww. Yikes.

I'm almost never completely numb. It'sfine at the start, but as the drill goes deeper I almost always feel pain. More anastethic doesn't help either.

Have you tried a "no pain" dentist they give pre-medcation to help easy the vist for those with a fear of dentist. It might be of some help if you talk your dentist before hand and see if there is anything that they can do for you to make the vist easier for you bad dental health can lead to heart trouble later in life.

There was a standing protocol at the last clinic I worked in, no closing the doors with female patients, this happened for a reason. I don't wake up thinking about doing anything wrong with patients, but I get all kinds of thoughts coming into my head when I do my exams (I was just a medic). I'm not the guy who tried to slip one past the system, cop a feel, or what have you, but I can tell you it was tempting. Some guys will agree with me on this, the rest may be to ashamed to admit or not even interested in women (I feigned a lot of interest in men to cope).

What does that mean, it means if you feel an uncomfortable vibe, it's there for a reason and you aren't obligated to be polite, you can just turn another face beet red, but in most cases there's just a job to do and it would be a lot less akward if someone in charge took requests for female provider requests more seriously.

hate them both. i've reflexively kicked people during pelvic exams. i know i need them, but i hate them, hate them, hate them, hate them (hate them.)

I'm scared to death of doctors and dentists and it really sucks because I have 16 cavities that need to be filled (hopefully none will turn into root canals) and my dentist assured me that I was going to get wisdom teeth and even showed me them in my x-rays. When I was little, I'd have to get like 3-4 people to hold me down to get shots and get blood drawn. when I got my tetanus shot for 7th grade, I had to sit on my uncles lap to stop from freaking out. I went to the dentist like 2 days ago and they were poking around my mouth and around my gums with that weird object that they use, and I thought I was going to die. when I got my x-rays taken, the dentist said that it might just be a bit uncomfortable, but at the end I could have sworn that machine was made to torture people.

16 cavities? I would recommend getting a second opinion before you have anything filled. Sometimes, dentists just want money and they fill things that don't need to be filled. I know, because I experienced this myself once when I was younger, and more susceptible. Just be sure any procedure you get really is necessary.

Sadly I think I really do have 16 cavities because I can see most of them and the dentist also had another dentist poke around in my teeth too. I'm not sure where else I would go because my dad and I were only able to find 2 dentists around that would accepted Medicaid and the only one that would take me in was this student program at the hospital. I don't really like the idea of a student dentist (He said that he was in graduate school or something) working on my teeth, especially if it turns out I need a root canal (he said it didn't look like I did, but there were a few that may turn into them...) and even then I don't like the idea because I'm scared they won't numb my mouth correctly. When I was getting my x-rays done, they told me, 'No. It won't hurt. It may just be a little uncomfortable at most.' and it was more than uncomfortable. I was actually in tears while getting them done and I could have sworn they scratched my mouth up. Then when I go back the next week they show me the pictures of my teeth and all that and then the dentist gets one of he many devices or torture out and scrapes around my teeth (which hurts my ears) and pokes my gums (which hurt). When the procedure is done and he finally (somewhat) explains what all of his bizarre dental gibberish meant, he goes down to try to find my dad (because I didn't want to go out there where there's tons of people in the waiting room. I get real nervous around crowds.) and the whole time I'm sitting there, staring at all the stuff in the room and getting anxious because there was no one there with me and I felt like I must have said a million things wrong. I'm not really sure if I like having a male dentist (or any doctor). For some reason it doesn't feel right to me to talk to them. I'm scared I'm going to say something and, because I'm no longer a little girl any more and am a teenager, that it's going to be taken the wrong way and sound either sexual or rude to them and I don't want that.

wow...I didn't mean to write that much. Sorry if I got a bit off topic (I actually kind of forgot what the topic was about kind of), but it helped to get some of that out.

I've had tons of operations, tests, appointments, what-have-you for various conditions of mine. I go back and forth between being a pro at things and being a traumatized wreck. Most of it has to do with me being in control of the situation. I make it perfectly clear what tests and procedures people can do on me when I'm still conscious, where they can stick the needles, how they have to warn me before they do something, etc., up front, and those people who have disregarded me end up having to deal with me at my most uncontrollable.

Anesthetics and the sort of cleaning fluids they use in medical settings are two of my absolute least favorite smells in the world.

Hate dentists and gynos, dislike going to other doctors.

i avoid going to the doctor, because i see no point in taking care of myself as i really don't feel like a legitimate human anyway.

Yes, I absolutely dread going to the doctors and especially the dentist! Even with laughing gas and tons of freezing I moved while having a cavity filled. I am incredibly sensitive to pain. I am also sensitive to smell in hospitals and dentist offices.....make me want to throw up.

I had a great dentist, known him since before I had teeth. He retired a couple of years ago; another guy took over his list and he is, in no uncertain terms, quite odd. But you'd have to be a bit weird to spend all day looking at teeth.

Doctors are another matter entirely. They've spent my whole adult life telling me there's nothing wrong, I'm making a big fuss about nothing, wasting their time and looking for attention. Yeh, cos we aspies just lurve attention. I don't know how they can keep that line going when I've had to go through four totally preventable surgeries and am now facing a fifth, just because they keep dismissing my concerns and ignoring all my symptoms until I hit the emergency room (and even then they're usually rather slow on the uptake).

I'm wondering if I was officially diagnosed/registered as an aspie whether they would treat me better or even worse...?