One of the most intensely frustrating things to me about doctors is the way they treat anyone explaining something not immediately diagnosable as though the patients are pathological liars or hypochondriacs.
I don't care if there are a few people who fake conditions to get pain medicines. That's no excuse for ignoring people with real problems. If someone is coming to you who hasn't been to a doctor in five years, they're probably not an opioid addict that is doctor hopping. Even in the rare case it really is entirely psychosomatic, that's still something that should attempt to be isolated and addressed.
I've had upper chest pains that feel like a 20lb weight is sitting on my chest for the past several months. They come and go, usually staying for a few hours at a time. Doesn't matter whether I am lying down, sitting or standing. Doesn't matter what I've eaten, where I've been, etc. The exact spot always seems to move around, sometimes it's two spots on each side of my chest at once. Tried changing everything I reasonably could to no effect.
Can't get any doctors to acknowledge there's an issue. I'm just really hopeful that whatever it is goes away, and isn't something serious like blocked arteries or some form of cancer. I can't even imagine being in as much pain as you and Justin and having doctors dismiss me as a liar. I'd absolutely lose it.
There are penalties for giving out drugs to everyone who asks (potentially jail); there are no penalties for not giving out drugs apart from feeling like an asshole.
I don't care if there are a few people who fake conditions to get pain medicines. That's no excuse for ignoring people with real problems. If someone is coming to you who hasn't been to a doctor in five years, they're probably not an opioid addict that is doctor hopping. Even in the rare case it really is entirely psychosomatic, that's still something that should attempt to be isolated and addressed.
I've had upper chest pains that feel like a 20lb weight is sitting on my chest for the past several months. They come and go, usually staying for a few hours at a time. Doesn't matter whether I am lying down, sitting or standing. Doesn't matter what I've eaten, where I've been, etc. The exact spot always seems to move around, sometimes it's two spots on each side of my chest at once. Tried changing everything I reasonably could to no effect.
Can't get any doctors to acknowledge there's an issue. I'm just really hopeful that whatever it is goes away, and isn't something serious like blocked arteries or some form of cancer. I can't even imagine being in as much pain as you and Justin and having doctors dismiss me as a liar. I'd absolutely lose it.