Post by mccutcheon on Jan 31, 2012 15:09:28 GMT
URRRRRGH! It is MADDENING how many doctors don't have a clue about ADHD. But what is making me even angrier is how much bullshit they talk just so they don't have to admit they don't have a clue!
Take, for instance, my eye specialist: She found out that my field of vision is impaired. I told her that my eye hurts and that I'm feeling nauseous a lot and that I have taken Strattera for my ADHD.
"Your what?" she says.
"My Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder," I say, patiently.
"Ah! Yes yes yes," she says quickly.
I frown inwardly but let her go on.
She tells me to get my prolactin levels checked because of the field of vision thing but fails to write me a referral to the lab. Instead she tells me to go to my gyno so she can write the referral. Whut? Ah well, I'll just get my referral elsewhere then.
A week later I called her to tell her that my prolactin got checked and is fine. She says. "I'd like you to see a neurologist."
Sure, sounds good to me. So I went to pick up the referral and right now, at home, I wasn't quite certain whether I was reading it correctly (it is partly handwritten), so I called and asked what she wanted the neurologist to check.
Answer: "Well, what you said you wanted."
Me: "Huh?"
Answer: "Well, it says Antihyperactive Therapy. It's what you said you're doing.
Me: *multiple headdesks*
Well, turns out I was reading correctly I just didn't WANT to be reading that. She has NO IDEA so she just cobbles a couple of words together that don't even make sense in the SLIGHTEST! GNAAAAAH!
And she's not the only doctor who doesn't have a clue. This is a widespread problem, at least where I live.
How about you? had any doctor-cluelessness induced head-meet-desk moments?
Take, for instance, my eye specialist: She found out that my field of vision is impaired. I told her that my eye hurts and that I'm feeling nauseous a lot and that I have taken Strattera for my ADHD.
"Your what?" she says.
"My Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder," I say, patiently.
"Ah! Yes yes yes," she says quickly.
I frown inwardly but let her go on.
She tells me to get my prolactin levels checked because of the field of vision thing but fails to write me a referral to the lab. Instead she tells me to go to my gyno so she can write the referral. Whut? Ah well, I'll just get my referral elsewhere then.
A week later I called her to tell her that my prolactin got checked and is fine. She says. "I'd like you to see a neurologist."
Sure, sounds good to me. So I went to pick up the referral and right now, at home, I wasn't quite certain whether I was reading it correctly (it is partly handwritten), so I called and asked what she wanted the neurologist to check.
Answer: "Well, what you said you wanted."
Me: "Huh?"
Answer: "Well, it says Antihyperactive Therapy. It's what you said you're doing.
Me: *multiple headdesks*
Well, turns out I was reading correctly I just didn't WANT to be reading that. She has NO IDEA so she just cobbles a couple of words together that don't even make sense in the SLIGHTEST! GNAAAAAH!
And she's not the only doctor who doesn't have a clue. This is a widespread problem, at least where I live.
How about you? had any doctor-cluelessness induced head-meet-desk moments?