Rant away, JJ! It's a great coping mechanism!

How many doctors can't see smaller signs/symptoms, but only the knock you on your ego evidence?

Did you know that astigmatism can be caused by ptosis? I'm pretty sure that mine was.

There are many muscles in and around the eye. They think that might be one reason why the eyelid muscles are often one of the first signs of MG. They eyes are so easily put out of focus by weakness in any of those muscles.

A CMS is so common in Northern Europeans; and a few other areas. That's what usually makes the diagnosis of a CMS easier!

I find it very sad that all doctors don't have an open mind. Unfortunately, they're often more left-brained and want concrete or easy answers. But solving medical problems often requires creative, critical thinking and that involves using the right side of the brain and instincts, too!

Maybe if the medical community quit viewing the doctors who are freethinkers or on the cutting edge of doctoring as lesser doctors, than maybe all patients could have more thorough evaluations, better diagnostics, faster treatments, and less nonsense such as pinning stress, depression, anxiety, sexism, ageism, and other prejudice driven diagnosis' on us.

Doctors and patients alike have valuable insights to bring to the doctoring process. Many doctors whine about how much we patients talk or try to figure out our health problems, but how would they react if we didn't tell them our symptoms and only said, "You're the doctor, you figure it out."

They can't have it both ways and be able to solve medical problems. We are either a team while doctoring or victims of a doctoring dictatorship.

This paradigm has to shift.

Hang in there, JJ. You're bound to find a diamond in the rough in the doctoring profession sooner or later.


Annie