Gut Brain Connection

Your so lucky to have found good doctors.

/rant During my short lived period of hope I told my Pdoc that I may have found a physical cause for my bipolar symptoms and that if things worked out, that I’d like to reduce my meds. His response was to immediately recommend EST which is apparently a slightly more humane version of ECT.

Was he not listening to me at all? I said there may be a physical cause and he decided that permanently altering my brain would be the best way to move forward. How does that even make any sense? That’s like recommending heart surgery for a broken foot. He could have at least waited for me to come to my next appointment, depressed because no physical cause was found.

Doctors don’t just treat me like a hypochondriac, they’re flat out rude. I had one nurse practitioner at my Pdoc’s office kick me out in middle of the appointment. My GP and her nurses make fun of me (I can hear them, they’re not as quiet as they think they are).

A recent ER visit (which I was told by my doctor that I had to go because I passed out from pain while I was driving) they were nice at first, but then found nothing and the nurse says “the doctor will be in shortly to deal with you” and the doctor came in and said there was nothing wrong and said I had to leave. I was in so much pain I could barely walk. Another nurse then walks in and says I’m not allowed to leave until I can prove I can walk. WTF? I’m discharged but not allowed to leave? I think they thought I was a drug seeker. I never asked for drugs. I asked for help. I don’t want something that’ll make my pain better for 5 hours, I want my pain to go away. I limped out of there and almost fell over twice.

Afterwards, I call my doctor and she says “now that someone’s seen you I feel ok recommending this simple at home treatment” I was pissed. I just got treated like garbage because she didn’t want to tell me what I could do at home to get better? Not to mention the thousands of dollars that I’m gonna hafta pay for that ER visit. I don’t have that kinda money.

My mom was with me and was shocked at how rude they were. I was like nope, this is normal.

Rant over.

Sometimes I slur my words too, it’s usually after I eat. When it happens at work, people suspect I’ve been drinking and look at me funny. Sometimes I’m able to cover it up, most of the time not.

So you were eating normally, but losing tons of weight? Or were you too sick to eat and losing weight? 100lbs is really thin. How much did you weigh before? Where are you now?

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