Dr. All In Your Head Redeems Himself

Ok, so as I mentioned in my post about my latest visit to the Doc the one thing he did agree to do was to send me to get x-rays of my foot.   I’d stepped on one of the dogs toys months ago and my foot has been bothering me since.  After squeezing around my pinky toe for a while and hitting the right spot, he pretty much had to peel me off the ceiling.  His opinion was that since there was nothing broken and it being so tender in that one particular spot, that I injured the joint and it was getting inflamed.   He gave me a shot of cortisone into the joint in hopes that it would give the joint a chance to heal.  If it isn’t feeling significantly better after two weeks, he will give me a follow up shot to give it some more time.

Now for the interesting part.  While I was there to get the shot, which I had been DREADING as I didn’t want to see him again after my previous experience, he asked if I had a chance to think about our conversation.   I told him that I had thought about it and that I didn’t agree with him.  I basically explained what I said in my post where I explained it here.

I think he must have either been feeling bad, or maybe his wife (partner in the practice and the doctor I see most often) gave him a kick in the arse.   In any case he was much more friendly and seemed to think that we had some kind of miscommunication.   In the beginning I was of the opinion that I couldn’t really imagine what miscommunication would make a doctor say something like that, but I shut up and listened to him.

He had us in his office for 30-40 minutes talking and sort of hashing it all out, and in the end he sent me for blood work to check my cholesterol, blood sugar, thyroid, kidney and liver.  I have to phone on Monday to find out the results of those.

He is also giving me a referral to see a dermatologist that specializes in hair loss, which makes me very happy.  My hair has been thinning out quite drastically over the past 3-4 years (especially around the crown) and it’s gotten to the point where I’m completely paranoid and angry about it.  Also frustrated by the fact that nobody would or could help me.   I’m hoping that this doctor will at least be able to stop it from falling out more, even if they can’t make what is gone grow back.   When I was having the fertility issues my gynecologist sent me to a dermatologist at the same hospital where she was, but all he did was look at my head and say “Yes, you are losing your hair.”  Well, no shit Sherlock!   He said there was nothing he could do, didn’t explain why it was falling out or if it would continue to do so.   Hopefully the new dermatologist will have the answers to those questions… please keep your fingers crossed for me with that!

So, that’s the update on my doctor situation.  I don’t know if I caught him on a bad day the last time or what, but it was a total turnaround when I saw him on Thursday.   My crappy appointment was at 4:40pm on a Friday, so maybe that had something to do with it.   I got him at the very end of his week and he was in a crappy mood?  Not really an excuse for such insensitive treatment but I guess we all have our moments.

I was told (by my therapist after explaining the episode at the doctor) that it’s possible to have more than one doctor, and that it’s entirely up to me who I see for what issues.  So while I am going to give my current doctors another chance, I may still look into this International clinic in Den Haag.   I’m quite curious to see what their opinion would be on our fertility issues.

I’ll keep ya’s posted!