After the most basic blood tests failed to show anything, my GP suggested I find a private physician (a private GP) to make sure the diagnosis was correct... well, that was optimistic. I found said physician via recommendation. He made me do things such as touch my toes................. looked at my test results, then said he could find nothing wrong - hardly surprising on the basis of his efforts. I raised the possibility of ME to which his response was (I paraphrase I think as it's a long time ago) 'don't even mention that in here - there's no such thing - you've just been a bit depressed and have had too much responsibility' ...... hahahahaha MORON
- what about the fact that I felt gruesomely ill, had IBS, constant headaches, non-existent sleep, barely any cognitive function etc etc. I'd been practising law part time and had two small children, plus we had moved house a couple of times so a bit of modest stress but too much responsibility?? I never felt that and knew he was talking utter rubbish but I was so taken aback and unwell at the time, I don't recall even responding. It had all started the previous year with several infections culminating in infection in my lung - 6 rounds of antibiotics and I never felt well again and went disastrously downhill for 2 years. But the know-it-all doctor immediately put it all down to faulty psychology.......
How stupid and how arrogant.
- what about the fact that I felt gruesomely ill, had IBS, constant headaches, non-existent sleep, barely any cognitive function etc etc. I'd been practising law part time and had two small children, plus we had moved house a couple of times so a bit of modest stress but too much responsibility?? I never felt that and knew he was talking utter rubbish but I was so taken aback and unwell at the time, I don't recall even responding. It had all started the previous year with several infections culminating in infection in my lung - 6 rounds of antibiotics and I never felt well again and went disastrously downhill for 2 years. But the know-it-all doctor immediately put it all down to faulty psychology.......
How stupid and how arrogant.