I think your right. I came to this conclusion with the therapist I saw and the CBT woman.
But I still have trouble believing it of drs.
ukxmrv thanks for your experience with the MEsussex people
I don't know what to say MeSci, those videos are horrific.
the worst part was when they said something like
''
your symptoms are controlling you rather than you being in control of your
symptoms
''
and thats almost exactly what my dr said to me last time I saw him.
I just sort of looked at him, I didn''t know what to say. there were a couple of other things too that make more sense having seen these videos.
I don't know if I can face changing drs again. and at the moment I have ATOS (UK benefit stuff) to deal with.
It took me many years to lose faith almost completely in UK doctors. I changed multiple times after being left alone at home in a near-life-threatening condition due to a misdiagnosis of 'panic attack' made over the phone. I wanted the doc to come out, but he didn't.
I went from the frying pan into the fire, ending up with a doc who stopped an essential medication without warning, discussion or explanation - I just turned up at the chemist to collect it as usual and it wasn't there. When I phoned to enquire, she was hostile and rude, and said that there was nothing in my record to say why I was on it. When I finally got a copy of my records I found that in fact 3 separate consultants had said that I could have it.
All my childhood records have disappeared long ago. No one seems to even care what has happened to them.
The last straws came in 2010, when I was seriously ill again and found myself being BLAMED for it. I told my friends never to take me to hospital again. I want to stay alive.
I have recently found, thanks to someone on here plus a radio prog, that the illness was probably due to a medication I had been prescribed shortly before the first severe episode. What I found out made the hospital treatment even more shocking. It could have caused kidney failure.
I have switched to another med, after being on the offending one for 7 years.
I did the research, and
I asked for the new drug, and
I said what dose. At least my current doc seems to respect my opinions.
Not a single doctor - GP or hospital doc - had made the connection between the previous drug and my serious illness.
My file of medical errors and other unacceptable experiences is a long one.
Are ATOS still involved in benefits? I thought they had lost the contract.