Anyone else hates going to the doctor?

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Holy crap, that's like 5-star hotel levels of plushness. Next time I go to my hospital I will try to take a sneaky photo of the waiting room to compare.

In answer to the OP, I have had absolutely no choice but to get used to going to the doctor. I have also had to learn how to speak to doctors, something which I always hated doing. I still don't enjoy it, but being passive almost to the point of muteness doesn't get you the best treatment.

I find medical tests a doddle to be honest. I've had a million blood draws and IV infusions. I've been on two meds which I had to inject myself. I've downed revolting colonoscopy preps and had camera tubes stuck up my arse. I've been an inpatient several times. And all within the grim confines of your average NHS hospital.



That's fantastic advice. If you want your doctors to basically not treat you, that is. My Crohn's disease went undertreated for years, partly because I never spoke out. But hey, at least they didn't find out about my cousin-twice-removed's hiatus hernia, so it was worth ending up having a colectomy to preserve that all-important privacy.

Earlier in my post which you quoted, I stated that I discuss only the reason(s) that caused me to attend my physician's office. So, for example, if I need a prescription, that and its related condition(s) is the only thing I will discuss. So, I do happen to describe adequately my medical needs quite well, if apparently accidentally and despite my obvious problems with the authority figures of my medical staffers. I am glad to be so simultaneously disgusting and humorous to you. My reasons for my behavior are completely my business. That I shared it here was a simple matter of trying to describe my experiences and, maybe, possibly, helping others with whatever drivel I have spewed.

Excuse me. I am so sorry to have wasted your time.

Last edited by AspieUtah on 04 Jan 2015, 9:12 pm, edited 1 time in total.

I pretty much hate going to the doctor at this point. I have some hard-to-pin-down health stuff: a "complex" health history. Fix one thing and in fixing that everything else goes to hell; it's really because it's difficult to manage everything. I always feel guilty when I go back and still things aren't better, also. Like it's some how my fault. I know it's NOT my fault... but... somehow don't know it? I feel like a disappointment, sort of. But, really there's nothing I can do to just MAKE a medication or treatment work better. And I get sick all the time right now because my immune system suckitysucks. So, I'm at the doctor or urgent care constantly and feel guilty for going. But, like... ok if I can't breathe I kind of have to go... so now it's just at a point where the only time I feel like I am willing to go is if I seriously can't breathe.
So, um... yeah I hate going in to see any doctor for any reason because I just feel like I shouldn't be there ever.

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So... your insurance providers, yeah. They kind of have to know what they are insuring you for.
Physicians within your practice that are treating you have access to your records.

Outside of that? People only have access if you've signed off on it or if you are in a corrections program basically, and in a lot of circumstances that is restricted a whole lot as well. If you have signed off on access for any entity, you can withdraw it at any time- so if you have a problem with it and it is bothering you, maybe review who has access. HIPPA is actually a pretty big deal at this point and has been for several years. A bunch of crap went down a while ago and since then records stuff has gotten pretty tight.

So, if people have access to your records, either they are part of the same health group or you signed off previously at some point or you have a really strong case against them.

The reason you should be telling your physician all the stuff going on with you- and why it's not a great strategy to "only tell them what is necessary" is that it can actually be harmful. Treating a patient as a whole person is way more successful, and knowing all that is going on with a patient can give clues to what may be wrong or any side effects- even if you don't think they are important.

You may think you know more than your doctors because you know more about whatever ails you than they do, but maybe you are hiding too much from them.

ETA: ...and I get that this seems like "pot calling the kettle black" or whatever that saying is, but I'm not sure you see a doctor every week [ though you may, but that's about where I'm at, even with my reluctance to go in] so despite what it seems, not quite the same.

I have never waived my privacy rights. It works just fine for me. Thank you.

I must ask, however, how did we as a species ever survive all those years when patients weren't interrogated by their physicians and related camp followers for every kind of personal information whether relevant or not? Being asked if I wear seat belts when I am attending the physician for a prescription refill is akin to asking a woman if she has ever had an abortion when she is pursuing a diagnosis for a suspected allergy.

Last edited by AspieUtah on 04 Jan 2015, 9:21 pm, edited 2 times in total.

I was only taking the same tone in my post as you was in yours, so there's no need to take it personally. I already said I don't enjoy talking to doctors: it's a necessary evil for me. But that sarcastic comment you made about your great grandmother's testicular cancer? Well, many diseases (including some forms of cancer) are highly hereditary and family history can be an important factor to consider.

You're basically not helping anyone by encouraging them to be paranoid about talking to their doctor.

Its not the whole task of going to the doctors and mixing with lots of other people awkwardly staring at you for 30 minutes while you wait your turn, although I hate that part! Its mainly the fact that doctors tend to cost an arm and a leg for such small 'treatments'. I am reluctant to go to the doctor eventhough I have had a lump and pain in a certain area for the past several months that hasn't gone away.

The doctor I see is the one that admitted me to hospital when I was severely suicidal and now I feel too embarrassed to go see him especially with my self harm issues. I guess thats one of the benefits of having both parents in the medical field, my fathers a lecturer in nursing and my mother is a nurse, so they can diagnose me without having to spend a cent.

Hate it, imagine it will cause me serious problems eventually too.

Thank you. A good 98% of what you tell your doctor is HIPAA protected in the US. In most states, doctors are mandated reporters for suspected child abuse/neglect, though, so disclosing that, for example, you drove your child home from daycare while you were extremely drunk isn't going to stay between you and your doctor.

Hate it - because they always seem to find something that's a health issue of concern. Then specialists, tests, meds, new meds, follow-ups, etc. Ugh!

I agree with you AspieUtah, they seem to care more about numbers and filling in forms than about me and who I am and what I need and often I get nothing but grief, pressure to do things I don't want, and having to beg for what I need. I HATE being a number! I hate being reminded I'm not normal, too

Thanks!

Pressure to do what? I've never been pressured to do anything.

Pressure to go along with routine tests that offer me little or noting. For instance getting blood drawn to check cholesterol that's been fine for years when I do not need nor would I want medicine if it were abnormal which it isn't. So it's being checked because that's the routine not because I need it and sometimes I hate that pressure and don't want to be stuck.

Oh okay.

Should move to the UK! I guarantee your average demoralised GP will not be pressurising you into having routine checkups for the sake of it, not least because they don't make any money that way. The only reason I've had so many blood draws is because I was ill with Crohn's disease. Once I had surgery and got into remission, the numerous tests came to an end. In fact when I was scared my Crohn's had returned a few months ago, I had to pursue my hospital, not vice versa.

Has your Crohn's returned?

My mother is dead set against surgery. She has what has been described as "Crohns colitis," meaning a hybrid of Ulcerative Colitis and Crohn's Disease.

This is what my mother wants: remission.

That sounds awful. My best wishes for her recovery.

My father has Crohn's Disease and I've spent a good portion of my life worrying that I'll inherit it, as well. I'm far more athletic and health-conscious than he was, but I still get paranoid...so paranoid that twice I opted to have colonoscopies, both of which came out clean, thank goodness.

I guess in those situations, you'd think I'd say I hated going to the doctor's, but really, the procedure itself is painless. It's the day of preparation before which is the hard part...