Posted by Susan J on October 21, 2003, at 11:13:05
In reply to I'm nervous, posted by Dinah on October 21, 2003, at 10:45:48
Hi, Dinah,
> I'm nervous about the headache specialist tomorrow. I'm afraid I'm not "sick" enough to merit a specialist. I'm afraid they'll think I'm a hypochondriac. I'm afraid they'll tell me to lose weight and have a more regular sleep cycle and go away.
<<I agree with Fallsfall. They wouldn't have referred you to a specialist if it weren't warranted. And it's better to have a condition ruled out by a specialist who deals with this stuff every day than an internist who's just not quite sure....
>There are things about me that my therapist knows, and that may even have something to do with headaches, that I don't want to be on my record and that I don't want these people to know. I don't want a letter from my insurance company like the one I got about diabetes. :(
<<What'd the insurance company say about diabetes? Don't tell me they're not covering it? :-(> Oh well, I guess I'm getting ahead of myself. All I probably need to worry about tomorrow is that they won't consider that I need a specialist and that I will feel like a big idiot.
<<It's normal to be nervous about seeing a new doc or for a new condition. Hang in there. Please don't feel like an idiot. Nobody knows your health better than you! And if seeing a specialist at the minimum puts you a little more at east about your own health, then it was *entirely* worth it!All I know is I rarely get sick with colds/flu/and stuff. One year, I had a low-grade cold that just wouldn't go away for over a month! I kept begging my doc for an antibiotic, but they said since I had no fever and no green mucous (sorry!), that I didn't have a bacterial infection and didn't need antibiotics. I finally got another doc to give me antibiotics, and whaddaya know? Symptoms gone in 3 days!
Dinah, really, *you* know yourself the best and you are entitled to the very best health care there is. Period. :-)
I'll be thinking of ya....
Susan
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