SleepyPigeon0608
Peer Supporter
What was the most disheartening thing a doctor has told you about your symptoms? In what ways have you kept that in your mind?
The most disheartening thing told to me by my Doctor was that I would need to learn to live with my back pain and to not lift weights anymore (avid gym girl here).
It has stayed in my mind because I felt so dismissed and scared by what he said. He looks at my CT scan, sees a minor disc bulge and tells me that I'm meant to live with the pain? For all we know, that minor bulging disc could have been there for years before I got the scan done. And how do we know it's causing the pain?
As for not lifting weights, I didn't want to hear that. I love exercising and going to the gym. It is how I like to spend my free time and look after myself. Lifting weights isn't dangerous and I never lifted more than I could handle.
And you want to know the funniest thing he told me to think about in regards to treating the bulge? Get a $30,000 surgery on my spine. When I told him I did not have that kind of money, he said I could ask my parents who would be more than happy to help me with that. BTW they would not. I realised then that my family doctor, for most of my life, was basically a quack.
Plus, from what I've read about spinal surgery, it would be a colossal waste of time and money. So no thank you, Doctor.
The most disheartening thing told to me by my Doctor was that I would need to learn to live with my back pain and to not lift weights anymore (avid gym girl here).
It has stayed in my mind because I felt so dismissed and scared by what he said. He looks at my CT scan, sees a minor disc bulge and tells me that I'm meant to live with the pain? For all we know, that minor bulging disc could have been there for years before I got the scan done. And how do we know it's causing the pain?
As for not lifting weights, I didn't want to hear that. I love exercising and going to the gym. It is how I like to spend my free time and look after myself. Lifting weights isn't dangerous and I never lifted more than I could handle.
And you want to know the funniest thing he told me to think about in regards to treating the bulge? Get a $30,000 surgery on my spine. When I told him I did not have that kind of money, he said I could ask my parents who would be more than happy to help me with that. BTW they would not. I realised then that my family doctor, for most of my life, was basically a quack.
Plus, from what I've read about spinal surgery, it would be a colossal waste of time and money. So no thank you, Doctor.
