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> On Thu, 31 Oct 2013 08:40:24 -0400, Ed Pawlowski > wrote:
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>>On Thu, 31 Oct 2013 01:00:27 -0400, Goomba >
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>>>Anyone who says he's had a liver transplant needs to refer his med
>>>questions to his doctor. Too many reasons why to bother listing.
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>>>Goomba -a critical care nurse
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>>Yes, and then go another couple of steps There are many wonderful
>>people in the medical profession. Smart and caring as they are, they
>>don't know everything so it is good to do some research on your own. I
>>speak from first hand experience.
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> I timidly asked my doc if I could try Imitrex for my migraines when it
> first came out - he gladly looked it up and gave me a prescription. I
> had thought he would be annoyed with me but he said no, it's not
> possible for family doctors to keep up with all the reading there is
> and the patient who suffers from something will be reading anything
> new on the subject, thus being better informed on one item.

I had a Dr. tell me that my best resource for medical stuff was the
Internet. Why did I go to her? Chronic pain! She is no longer practicing
at that clinic. She went elsewhere to a chronic pain relief place. Did she
do a thing for my pain? No. Except to prescribe an off label seizure med
that caused me all sorts of scary side effects. She did however
inadvertently find part of the source of the pain which was being put on a
thyroid med that as it turned out, I didn't need. She wouldn't do anything
about it though, referring me to my Endo. who kept me on the med but lowered
the dose twice at my insistence. It would take two more Endos. in two
different states to finally put that right.

And when I moved to NY, yet another medical condition was diagnosed
correctly. I had been told that I had psoriasis on my legs when it was not
at all but stasis dermatitis due to venous insufficiency. Odd thing was,
every Dr. I saw in NY nailed that one immediately! I saw I think 5
different ones in CA and none of them got it right.