Jennifer🇨🇦 :
I have sooooooooooo many, I don’t even know which one to pick. Not just for me but for my two kids as well. The medical system hasn’t treated me very well in my life. I think my most unhinged one was when I had been dealing with severe, unexplained neck pain that led to profound numbness that affected the entire upper right quadrant of my body and I couldn’t be upright without having to use my hands to hold my head up because the pain was that bad. I’d had a spinal fusion a year previous that was showing signs of failure and so I was on very strong pain medication to help manage it and so when I went to the hospital, I live in a small town with no walk in clinics, to have it investigated I was very open and upfront about the meds I was on and explained what was happening, how the pain was unmanageable and that I really felt I needed an Xray. I also explained that both my Mom and Sister have MS and I asked if it was a possibility that this could be a presentation of MS for myself and would referring me out for an MRI be a logical choice to make given the family history. He literally laughed at me as he was looking at his palm pilot, this was back in 2003, and said “I think you have been reading too much and are trying to sound smart but you’re not. Your supposed numbness makes no sense for anything neck related and the fact that you don’t have weakness as well, just shows me that you need to change your reading material”. I was so confused and I said to him “ok, but if you took a lighter to my arm, I literally wouldn’t feel it, that’s not normal” and he said “well I can guarantee it’s not that dramatic”. He didn’t even examine me and he said “you already take prescription pain meds, I’m sure you have Cyclobenzaprine(muscle relaxer), just take those and you’ll be fine” and so I said “so I’m not even going to get an XRay?” And he said “nope, you don’t need it, just take the muscle relaxers, stop playing doctor and you’ll be fine” and he started to walk out so I said, “I don’t have any of those meds can I get a prescription?” And as he walked out he said, “nope but you seem crafty, I’m sure you can get them from somewhere” and he left. Continued below…
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