jorats said:
Wow. OMG. He's an awful doctor!
There are two types of anemia, or three. One is low iron. Poor you! I like the idea of writing a letter to him. Be polite and but firm. He needs to know how he treats others.
I don't know Jo, I've kind of reached my limit of rude people that I can continue to treat with more kindness than they do me.
He seemed to want to just make me out to be an idiot. I've had- sorry this is a bit TMI and graphic- but I've had white stools about 3 times in the past 9 mos. It's really quite a shock to see. Each time I called my doc, but they only let you talk to the nurse, NOT the doctor, and she would tell me it's nothing to worry about.
But I'd ask her to find out what causes it, and she would only say it's nothing to worry about. That's not an answer. It's clearly not normal even if it is nothing to worry about!
So here I have a doctor I can talk to directly without going thru a nurse and I figure I'll just ask him. I wanted to know if it was because I don't have a gallbladder, because from what I read, white stool is caused by little or no bile in the stool; that bile is what it gives it the normal poop color. And bile is stored in your gallbladder blah blah blah....so I don't know maybe not having a gallbladder has something to do with this, I don't know. Maybe that's why they're telling me it's nothing to worry about, even though my gallbladder has been gone for ten years now and this never happened before. :roll:
He laughs and tells me it has nothing to do with bile- that white stool is caused by too much fat in the diet.
So I'm trying to figure out how does this work? and he says that when there's too much fat for your liver to digest, it's excreted in stool. So I say, the fat is white? and he says, no it's white because there's too much fat for the bile to digest....
It's the lack of sufficient bile, or rather, a
relative lack of sufficient bile. So I was half right and there was no reason for him to laugh at me. He could have just said, it's because there's too much fat for the normal amount of bile, instead of making me feel like an idiot saying it had *nothing* to do with bile, because it obviously does! Just not the way I thought. :roll: :gaah:
I"ve been told I have liver disease, fatty liver disease. So for all I know that means my liver isn't producing enough bile..... or it's getting trapped in there or something. Geez, I'm not a doctor, that's why I ask these questions. Instead of addressing my anxiety about what might be wrong, he just tries to make me out to be an idiot for even thinking it has anything to do with bile. :gaah:
I told him that I have serious doubts that the ophthalmologist is going to do my cataract surgery and rather than ask why, he just laughed and says, well if he doesn't do it, he won't get paid, so why would he not do it?
talk about a simplistic view of things.
It has to be medically necessary to be done on my insurance, and it never even occurred to this guy that maybe it is NOT yet medically necessary.
The first eye doc I saw is very eager to get as many cataract surgeries under her belt as she can, so, yeh she could have put it thru as necessary when maybe I've got more time. I am having symptoms but that doesnt' mean it can't wait. I need to know that the surgery is going to accomplish what I want it to.
She told me I would not need glasses for close work afterward.
The NURSE who books the appts told me that's not true- I will need reading glasses! :gaah: :gaah: :gaah:
I don't have the $$ for prescription glasses, they are very very expensive.
so there may be no point in my having that surgery now.
But this simple minded doctor couldn't even entertain the possibility that I might know what I was talking about!
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