Silly Doctor!

[amandapanda]

Well as you know I have been suffering badly from flu and I finally got to see a doctor today - both doctors I'd had telephone consultations with said it definitely sounded like flu - and this one did a few checks and said I do have a viral infection of some kind. But she's got into her head that the shooting pains I've been having are SPD!! I just can't see how she can make them completely unrelated to the flu when they came on the exact same day - I am sure they are just severe muscle pains associated with flu. As soon as I said I had pain in my hips she immediately started talking about SPD - but the pain is all down my legs, including my thighs , calves, knees, ankles and even in my elbows!! It seems crazy to me to treat that symptom totally separate from all my other symptoms! She told me to go and look it up online and I have and I just don't think that is my problem.

I'm sure when this flu is out of my system the pains will go, they are already a little better today. I've read that SPD can be hard for doctors to diagnose but in my case I think she's really jumped the gun! xx

 

[Cantstop]

She must have read up on it recently or something. As you say, if they started with all other flu symptoms they're probably symptoms of flu! Plus you don't get SPD in elbows! It sounds like a case of actual flu, with which you do get muscle pains etc, rather than a cold you call flu, like most cases of 'flu'.

Hope you get well soon anyway, sure once you get better and they go away your case will be proven.

 

[Lexusno1]

She's talking crap. Can't stand when doctors don't listen to you. Its almost like they get a prize if they diagnose so many cases of something a month. I got diagnosed with SPD yesterday and have been referred for physio and I can tell you now, I have no pain in my elbow!!!! Are you still feeling the same Hun. Must be worrying for you xx

 

[cherelle]

yeh i hate when doctors dont listen to you too - surely you know enough about your own body to know! The doctor who i saw yesterday looked in a bloody book every time i asked her something and knew absolutely NOTHING about pregnancy! x

 

[amandapanda]

Yeah this doctor was very sweet and nice but seriously she looked about 19!! She must be newly qualified and a bit over keen. The good news is I feel I have turned a corner and am feeling lots better today - all the pains have gone!! Still have a terrible cold and chesty cough but no pain or fever at all so I am definitely on the mend - yay!!!! xxx

 

[Lexusno1]

Thats great news hun, glad you're feeling much better x

 

[pinkymum]

Glad you're feeling better hunni!

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