All my doctors, since 2003 have been treating me w/ the anxiety & depression kill pills! I could never get any of them to listen to me! I would literally tell my family doc HE BETTER FIX ME! cuz I was tired of my symptoms. Last weekend ended up in the hosptial w/ same symptoms & found out my blood sugar was 50, got an iv. Same symptoms last night & this am. Bought a blood kit, tested my blood, it was 66. I am so mad! after all these years these doctors been telling me it was anxiety & depression.
2007-02-14 08:24:47 · 11 answers · asked by pinky 1 in Health ➔ Mental Health
Thats awful. I would complain about him, it practically amounts to negligence.
2007-02-14 08:28:59 · answer #1 · answered by huggz 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
50 is a bit low, 66 is normal, do indeed see an endocrinologist, but don't discount that you also likely have anxiety and depression. Especially if your symptoms continue after you have eaten something. A little bit of knowledge can skew your view, and I suggest that your doctor probably already knows alot that you don't realize. Rather than automatically assuming that a doctor doesn't know what he is doing, try developing a relationship with him. Discuss your concerns, ask why he makes a particular diagnosis over another. People who just simply have faith that their doctors know all see all and cure all are just foolish.
2007-02-14 08:56:59 · answer #2 · answered by essentiallysolo 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
While they are still in medical school, pharmaceutical companies start courting doctors, giving them gifts and dinners and "educational" trips to Hawaii. The pharmaceutical industry promotes their new miracle cures -- selling not just drugs but also the latest diseases that go with them. It's a $550 billion (that's half a trillion) industry that uses, manipulates and, in some instances, creates illness for capital gain. A perfect example? Prozac was dyed purple and called "Sarafem" to treat an invented "illness" called Premenstrual dysphoric disorder (which is a bad case of PMS to us ladies!)
Pharmaceutical advertising glamorizes and normalizes the use of prescription medication, and works in tandem with promotion to doctors. Drug reps admit to giving doctors $400 golf clubs, paying for $8,000 trips, and having over $30,000 a month to spend on promoting their drugs. The more drugs the doctor prescribes, the bigger and better the perks! (kickbacks)
American health care (which should be renamed "drug care") + insurance companies will kill you. As you almost learned.
It's not "negligence" it's a multi-billion dollar industry that spends millions and millions to "teach" doctors how to dispense their product.
You should go to a drug convention one day- drug makers hawk their wares to make profit. HUGE profits.
2007-02-14 09:56:21 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You need to find a different doctor or stand up for your health. Let this experience be a lesson: in the future, never let a doctor put you on a medication until you've researched it and agree. You hae the right and responsibility to take charge of your health and whatever treatments any doctor offers.
(By the way, most doctors will deny it, but they sometimes get paid by psychiatric drug companies to prescribe certain medications.)
2007-02-14 08:42:57 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am so happy, it was only a 35 minute drive ( 70 minutes total) but absolutely no sign of anxiety or panic i shopped till I dropped - brilliant! I will now go for the next stage DUAL CARRIAGE way, probably at the weekend, with my husband accompanying me first then the solo drive, if successful the final stage of driving on motorway
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2016-05-17 09:03:22 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I want to suggest you add another doctor to the list. Go to an endocronologist. If your blood sugar is low, that is the doctor that can help. However, low blood sugars cause anxiety and depression.
2007-02-14 08:33:23 · answer #6 · answered by istitch2 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Any time you have trouble with a doctor, the best thing is to get a new doctor. In your case, I would ask around till you find someone who has diabetes and go to their doctor because that doctor knows how to monitor and maintain blood-sugar levels.
2007-02-14 08:30:45 · answer #7 · answered by gabriel3791 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
sounds sorta like me, they had me on anti-depressents for years because I was moody, and it turned out I was going through menopause. And another time, kept getting like sinus infections, but without the phlem, and they put me on all kinds of medications because my face hurt soooo bad...well, finally they sent me to an allergy dr., who stuck me with those things, and said I wasn't allergic to one thing, that was a joke, I'm allergic to dog and cat hair, but, love animals, so take medication for it, but, they sent me to a neurologist who put me on blood pressure meds for migraines, saying it was migraines I was having, and it did help but, not all the way, and finally went to another dr. and got off the blood pressure med, which is used for migraines in some cases, but, it all turned out it was allergies...dr.'s these days don't take the time with the patients, even if they know you..and one of my childrent are in college now pre-med, but, she said, she doesn't want to be a dr. dr. like seeing patients, but, a specialist, like studying genetics and finding cures....all dr.s want now days are the money, that's all they care about...so I would find another dr....at least they found it, because you could have gone into a coma with your surgar going so low...I would say sue, but doubt it would do any good, dr.s always win it seems...you have to be dead and then it takes years later to even get to a settling point or court...been there done that....just thank God they found it in time before you really were messed up from it...and keep something in your system all the time so your sugar will stay at a good point...even if it's just a glass of o.j. glad you are okay...good luck
2007-02-14 08:46:58 · answer #8 · answered by Confused 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
you know what? it could still be anxiety and depression. it could have been that your blood sugar was just low at that one time. if i wer eyou i would go get another opinion. and you will see that your blood sugar wasnt always low. i trust my doctor. thats what they went to medical school
2007-02-14 08:31:23 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
doctors like to perscribe everything now with anxiety and depression because it easier for them to just try adn drug you up than to try to figure out what the real issue is
2007-02-15 09:11:11 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yikes, it sounds like negligence to me. Call you state board of medical practitioners and see what the grievance process is.
2007-02-14 08:38:55 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋