Quote Originally Posted by FakeBoobsRule
Gandalf, I read a lot of your posts in the medical forum, both the ones that you ask for advice and the ones where you give advice, I gotta shake my head. The internet does not make one a doctor. Sometimes the advice you give in the medical forum is completely wrong yet you try so hard to make it sound like you are absolutely 100% correct. Yes there are stories about how doctors miss something and someone does a little research and finds something the doctor overlooks or missed or didn't know and they help their own cause but do you realize how few these are in the grand scheme of things? I will look up how many office visits there were last year later on but you make it sound like your doctors are bumbling idiots, that you are just as smart as them if not smarter. There is a reason why doctors go to school for 20 years and then a residency and don't get their degrees online.
Man I'm not sure where you're getting this but I hardly think I'm an expert, nor do I think my doctors are "bumbling idiots". I do, however, think (from experience) that doctors have a tendency to settle into a quagmire of repetition when it comes to treatment. Since day one of my 5 1/2 years of pain I've had one referral to a rheumatologist, and a lot of painkillers pushed on me, and that's it when it comes to treatments offered to me.
I had to research about cortisone to finally get a cortisone injection, and it helped. I had to pester them about getting an EEG scan, after researching it. I had to pester them to get an MRI (which revealed my arthritic upper vertebrae), and the X-rays they ordered were only for my low back until I pestered them to get one for my neck (which revealed it was too strait in one point).

Now what is this crap that I try to sound "100% right"? In case you haven't noticed I've only advised people on what I've learned myself, and I've always been 100% open to having my opinion changed. Just look at the canker sore thread, you corrected me on the salt-water issue and did I yell "No you fucking idiot I'm right!"? No, I told you that was just from personal experience and asked for an expanation. In case you haven't noticed, I always ask for clarification when somebody corrects me on something so I can learn.

I don't think I'm smarter than my doctors, but I would think you'd have at least a vague idea of why I'd be frustrated with a system that offers me no treatment options. The issues I bring to them are based on researching information from other medical professionals who are smarter than me. And I'm not gonna take this chastizing bullshit from you because I take the initiative to get better and not just sit back and accept that some painkillers are my only option.