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Originally Posted by mrsD
Neuroproblem... I have a suggestion for you. From reading your posts, I suspect you are not communicating well with your doctors.
It is not common for patients to describe symptoms like you are doing here. I know that males tend to get better attention from doctors than females...this is a well known thing. And some males are vague about symptoms too... it can be a cultural thing. (my husband is like this). If you are telling too many details to your doctor, she is going to see this as a red flag leading to her diagnoses.
But telling a doctor that you cannot feel your "organs", etc is very odd. Normally we do not feel our organs...they run on the autonomic nervous system for the most part.
Sometimes people don't get a nausea warning before vomiting.
Sometimes people get only severe nausea and no vomiting.
You did get a warning because you made it to the sink in time.
That suggests you had a normal reflex, but just little time to think about it. Often viral stomach flu is quick and severe like this. Food borne illness would give some cramping as a warning sometimes.
Continuing to blame Benadryl for your other symptoms, is also not in your favor. Most likely the virus you had may have been a trigger for your current problems. So just tell any new doctor, that you had a virus and since then you lost your sense of smell, etc. Leave the Benadryl out... as it is a DETAIL that YOU find important. You need to let your doctor decide what is important.
Doctors today don't have the time to ferret out details unless there is a good reason to do so. Most illnesses, are self limiting, they know, meaning that the body will heal, and get better on its own. The patients however, expect doctors to do something every time they visit the doctor's... so this often causes conflict and misunderstanding. If the doctor does not explain, self limiting, to the patient, the patient may think they are being ignored. Not all doctors are perfect communicators either!
It is really important to communicate carefully these days or this might happen to you (or has already started to happen)...
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i told many times i gave alot of details to the pcp, but she was kinda ignorant to the whole situation, she dismissed all my symptoms and started to imply that i just made it all up, if you read my previous post. I even printed out a big list for her to see. Because i let her access to my "Kaiser records, where i had many visits to specialists for other reasion, which 1 or 2 did not find anything significant(1 of them an ENT laughed me out of his office and basically implied i wasted his time, by making an appointment), she now thinks i only go to doctor to look for drugs or attention, hence the suggestion "therapist" mental problem. I also said pins and needles waxs and wanes, but she assumed that all my symptoms did that, but it wasnt true, none of them actually went away, in fact the loss of sensation became more apparent after pins and needle started to diminish. you can feel the sensation of a full bladder, or hunger of full stomach, but i lost all those sensations in january. it takes months just to schedule the appointment, i have no say as to what doctors i can see, if i had the ability to see other pcp, or specialist, i would drop this doc in an instant.
I think i need a neuro or some kind specialist that deals in autoimmune, because i do have AA(alopecia areata i developed 7 years ago), which often associated with other autoimmune diseases.
I always though guillan barre to be a possibility, but i had no weakness, or pain that is significant, or paralysis. It can account for smell loss,maybe.