What was the most disheartening thing a doctor has told you about your symptoms? In what ways have you kept that in your mind?
This is going to basically be a rant about a couple of physiotherapists who seriously made me worry I would ever recover one of whom made me severely angry at the time. I'll try and keep the bad language out.
The first incompetent fool tried to do acupuncture on me a couple of times to alleviate RSI induced arm pain. After my 3rd session (by which time he said I should be seeing a significant improvement) he asked me how my symptoms were. When I reported no change he said to me: "well its your own fault for sitting infront of a computer typing for 8 hours a day. How can you ever hope to get better if you continue doing that". I felt a huge surge of anger that I had to suppress. I literally wanted to smash his face in and tell him to shut the F*** up and tell him he was a useless parasitic quack. Over the next couple of months at work what said went round and round in my head until I was believeing that it was all my fault that I had played too many computer games in my youth that I had worked to hard at univeristy that I was never going to recover and have to give up my new job that I really enjoy and worked my arse off to get. All because this idiot had blamed my body for not reacting to his flawed treatment.
The second physiotherapist was much more well meaning. He told me that I had super flexible shoulder joints due to a mixture of muscle imbalance and possibly missing cartilage in my shoulder joints, he said I should get an MRI to confirm this. He said my symptoms were related to the nerves being trapped as they passed through my shoulders because of this. He said that I may be looking at surgery to get this fixed or it would not get better and I would suffer a lot in later life. It is the second part of this statement that filled me with fear. I mean my symptoms are bad now if they get much worse over time then I could be crippled. Luckily I found out about Sarno and started taking that seriously soon after I was told this and I refused to get an MRI, incase it made matters worse and dropped him as my physio. However I still worry that he may have planted a seed in my mind that will germinate as TMS pain in later life because of what he told me about his shoulders.
I'm guessing alot of you on here have recieved stuff like this from doctors and physios. What is the worst you have had? How to you stop it resurfacing and worrying you? Thinking about this has made me so angry I'm off to the gym to let off some steam............
This is going to basically be a rant about a couple of physiotherapists who seriously made me worry I would ever recover one of whom made me severely angry at the time. I'll try and keep the bad language out.
The first incompetent fool tried to do acupuncture on me a couple of times to alleviate RSI induced arm pain. After my 3rd session (by which time he said I should be seeing a significant improvement) he asked me how my symptoms were. When I reported no change he said to me: "well its your own fault for sitting infront of a computer typing for 8 hours a day. How can you ever hope to get better if you continue doing that". I felt a huge surge of anger that I had to suppress. I literally wanted to smash his face in and tell him to shut the F*** up and tell him he was a useless parasitic quack. Over the next couple of months at work what said went round and round in my head until I was believeing that it was all my fault that I had played too many computer games in my youth that I had worked to hard at univeristy that I was never going to recover and have to give up my new job that I really enjoy and worked my arse off to get. All because this idiot had blamed my body for not reacting to his flawed treatment.
The second physiotherapist was much more well meaning. He told me that I had super flexible shoulder joints due to a mixture of muscle imbalance and possibly missing cartilage in my shoulder joints, he said I should get an MRI to confirm this. He said my symptoms were related to the nerves being trapped as they passed through my shoulders because of this. He said that I may be looking at surgery to get this fixed or it would not get better and I would suffer a lot in later life. It is the second part of this statement that filled me with fear. I mean my symptoms are bad now if they get much worse over time then I could be crippled. Luckily I found out about Sarno and started taking that seriously soon after I was told this and I refused to get an MRI, incase it made matters worse and dropped him as my physio. However I still worry that he may have planted a seed in my mind that will germinate as TMS pain in later life because of what he told me about his shoulders.
I'm guessing alot of you on here have recieved stuff like this from doctors and physios. What is the worst you have had? How to you stop it resurfacing and worrying you? Thinking about this has made me so angry I'm off to the gym to let off some steam............
