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RE: Two Health Professionals, Two Experiences: Why I'm Angry at Mainstream Doctors, And Advocating for Naturopaths.

in #steempress6 years ago

I know what you mean. Docs had me on a med (oxcarbazepine) that dried my joints out and i ended up getting a pointless surgery because of it. Then when i switched medicines on my own by badgering a newbie doc all my issues went away.

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'Badgering a doctor' ... yes!!! It's like we HAVE to do that to get anywhere. So I walked in with a badger attitude.. yet polite... and he did NOT like that at all. We need to be in charge of our own health though... trust can be tricky, especially in situations like yours when you've had such a shit experience. My Dad was told he had a kind of fibromyalgia when he had a cancer tumour... he trusted his GP when he should have got a second opinion. It was only that he went for a skin chevk.up that the skin doctor said.. hmmm.. get a biopsy. Whilst doctors are human, sometimes they are very cursory too.

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Yeah you definitely have to set the agenda with the docs otherwise they'll send you down the pharma path with lots of side effects and useless treatments. Either that or they'll just shuffle you from one doc to another.

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