Brandy
Freddled gruntbuggly
Twice this year I've been horribly misdiagnosed.
Once in the ER when they xrayed my spine they told me that I had moderate spinal disk disease and that I should stop doing about half of what I do because my spine was ready to crumble. I followed up with a spine specialist and he said bullshit, I was fine.
Then again a with a diagnoses of moderate level arthritis in my hip, and just got the results back from the specialist and, nope. No arthritis in my body. Probably a hip impingement and that's where I'm sticking until after the holidays.
My cynical nature thinks that perhaps the secret is if they say I have "moderate" anything, they are guessing based on my current profile, which is very athletic, so they assume that I've worn out my body, but thanks to my limited lifestyle as a heavy person, the truth is my body is in awesome shape for my age.
Or is it that we are zebras? Zebra is a medical term that they learn in med school that says "If you hear hoof beats, look for horses not zebras." And that means that for every 10,000 patients a doctor sees, maybe one of them will have something exotic. Every body else will have the same old, same old stuff. So rather than thinking about diagnosing MS or Lupus or Tutsi Fly Fever or something, it is just a cold and don't freak out your patients by saying anything else.
So what I'm asking is should I assume that any health weirdness is probably malnutrition? If it isn't a cold or something like that, but do hoof beats mean vitamin changes for me? At least as a place to start??
I hope you guys can translate what I'm asking here, because I can't seem to find good words to use.
Thanks!
Once in the ER when they xrayed my spine they told me that I had moderate spinal disk disease and that I should stop doing about half of what I do because my spine was ready to crumble. I followed up with a spine specialist and he said bullshit, I was fine.
Then again a with a diagnoses of moderate level arthritis in my hip, and just got the results back from the specialist and, nope. No arthritis in my body. Probably a hip impingement and that's where I'm sticking until after the holidays.
My cynical nature thinks that perhaps the secret is if they say I have "moderate" anything, they are guessing based on my current profile, which is very athletic, so they assume that I've worn out my body, but thanks to my limited lifestyle as a heavy person, the truth is my body is in awesome shape for my age.
Or is it that we are zebras? Zebra is a medical term that they learn in med school that says "If you hear hoof beats, look for horses not zebras." And that means that for every 10,000 patients a doctor sees, maybe one of them will have something exotic. Every body else will have the same old, same old stuff. So rather than thinking about diagnosing MS or Lupus or Tutsi Fly Fever or something, it is just a cold and don't freak out your patients by saying anything else.
So what I'm asking is should I assume that any health weirdness is probably malnutrition? If it isn't a cold or something like that, but do hoof beats mean vitamin changes for me? At least as a place to start??
I hope you guys can translate what I'm asking here, because I can't seem to find good words to use.
Thanks!