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Tuesday, Jun 29, 2010 7:02PM / Standard Entry / Members only
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Call me weird, but:

There was a time when I was 16, I had difficulty breathing, I went to a doctor & said that it might just be a heart burn, but the next day after, It was still painful for me to breathe & thought I might have a heart problem, so decided to go to a cardiologist, & when she said that the other doctor might be right, that it might just be a heart burn, I was really disappointed. I wanted to hear something more (yes, I'm odd). Went to consult my uncle's wife who is a doctor, it turns out that it wasn't a heart burn but was an allergic reaction from a medicine. That diagnose was far more fine with me than knowing I went through all that for just a heart burn.

Then here again to a neurologist, you see ever since I was a kid I would often have headache attacks & dizziness, 2weeks ago I had the worst headache of my life, it was too painful that it brought me to tears & this is from someone who is used to headaches. Had a blood test & the result was okay, & all this time I thought I was anemic; another disappointment (I know, i know! I should be glad that I'm not critically sick.). My cousin who also suffers from unexplained headaches & dizziness told me not to see an E.N.T. for they would just gonna say that it might be a vertigo, & recommended me to her neurologist . And there I was, he said that I'm too young to have complications. My exam went well, so yup, it was a migraine attack & told me to avoid chocolates. =(

My neurologist was also the second person this month who told me that perhaps I should try to be a flight attendant, hahaha!! It was kinda funny, because I'm kinda thinking about how it's like to be one, & out of the blue he just it blurted out. I often get funny comments from some doctors I visited, my ophthalmologist before (who gave me a huge discount on my glasses without me asking him to) asked me if I used to participate on some school beauty contests or whatever you call it back in highschool & college, which I told him that I'm not the 'home coming queen' type & I'm not into that kind of stuff, hehe..

Anyway, my disappointments weren't because of thinking that the doctors were wrong, I know they could be right. And It's not that I want to have a life-threatening disease, but I don't like going to a doctor hearing the same thing that I have already diagnosed myself with, like a migraine or I'm stressed or something. Am I the only who feels that way? visiting a doctor expecting to hear something more other than just a simple problem that can be cured with just a paracetamol?

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jasmineT
posted on Tuesday, Jul 6, 2010 12:14AM [Report]

thanks i feel good but it was a little loss of hepatic function.after another test, i may take some dose.
Juhana
posted on Saturday, Jul 3, 2010 5:13PM

zai, hope your brother will stay strong & will recover soon. Good thing yours isn't life-threatening.

Yoko, something's wrong w/ your liver? hope it's nothing serious.
jasmineT
posted on Saturday, Jul 3, 2010 1:52AM [Report]

this morning i go to the hospital to have ultrasound test. cause I can't get rid of the cold, took the blood test last week. the result was... no whooping cough, no neumonia, but something bad with my liver. i just imagine the desease name, but i know it will be nothing as usual. my personal physician likes exams :-p
vanness08
posted on Friday, Jul 2, 2010 9:08AM [Report]

You know various food can also makes your migraine worse? If you are intolerance to certain food & stuff that have a big impact on migraine too. You should have a food intolerance checked 2 if you haven't already done it.
pale& feeling weak sounds familiar to me 2 dear ;( I think you should try to get a 2 option from another Dr. Better to be safe than sorry right?

Thank God Its not life threatening for me because mine is thalassemia minor and usually do not require any specific treatment. But the symptoms can be a living hell some times, especially in the summer time or during that time of the month ;(

but for my brother who have thalassemia major & needs treatments such as chronic blood transfusion therapy, iron chelation, splenectomy, &allogeneic hematopoietic transplantation.He is in & out of the hospital like a normal person going to work& his mother died of it few yrs back.

The only good benefits of having minor Thalassemia is it protection me against malaria, wow like I live in a tropical country ;(
Juhana
posted on Wednesday, Jun 30, 2010 5:45PM

that's what I'm expecting too. I rarely visit a doctor, & the thought that when you go see a doctor, expect the worst. That's why I'm quite disappointed when it's nothing to worry about - I expected too much! haha! and i'll start thinking "I knew it! It was nothing, why did I even went to a doctor?" so that's my disappointment, lame isn't it? hehe..

Zai, that's quite scary. Good thing you didn't take those medicines. How are you now? surely it's not life threatening?
Well, Leukemia seems to run on my mother's side of the family. Some of my relatives died of it. I had my blood test last week & the result was okay. I don't know if migraine is hereditary, but it seems a lot of my relatives on my maternal side have it too. But among my siblings, I'm the only one who's suffering from it. I'm still not sure about it being just a migraine though, there were times that I'll go pale & almost into fainting even just relaxing on a couch.

Sono, thanks for the advise. I'm not into cold food, though, but I do love Ice cream!
musicnote
posted on Wednesday, Jun 30, 2010 10:33AM [Report]

I guess I always expect the worse so it's nice for me to hear that it's nothing serious. lol
vanness08
posted on Wednesday, Jun 30, 2010 7:35AM [Report]

Girl I had the same problem for few years, suffered from several migraine attacks a week and other health problem. Since I didn't have much info about my fam background they Dr just kept giving me damn paracetamol or migraine, Iron, Anemic tables , you name it they gave it to me.
Not until by chance my father whom I don't even have contact with was telling me how unwell he was and this was due to his sickle cell treat. coz of that I had my Dr taken my blood test and it turns out I had sickle cell anemia and that's why I had all those medical problems =(. The worse thing was some of the medecine they gave me which I never really took coz they had bad side effects, turns out be deadly for some one with my medical condition. I don't even want to think what if I had taken them ;(

So yes I understand your frustrations girl. Maybe it would be good if you could check your fam medical history and maybe something the Dr's cant see may come up. You got nothing to lose
bleupluie
posted on Wednesday, Jun 30, 2010 2:20AM [Report]

yeah...i get u...
but maybe in our country, even if the doctor explains further, the public in general would turn blur...so they'd just say the simplest things...
i guess you should avoid cold food too...i mean, not to say avoid totally, but take less, and more warm water? hope it works...
Juhana
posted on Wednesday, Jun 30, 2010 12:05AM

hehe.. nope, those comments made by them were meant as a compliment, but I just find it funny because it's quite the opposite of me.
AsianChick100
posted on Monday, Jun 28, 2010 11:19PM [Report]

i understand your frustrations. i really do. some of those comments are quite uncalled for...