BGB, glad you found doctors you can "ask."

It took me until this year to do that. I switched to Kaiser and got an apparently brand-new doctor--one who hasn't seen enough hypochondriacs to recognize me as one yet!

But I've been VERRRY careful with him. I didn't bring any records (except recent blood tests for cholesterol, etc.), didn't bring up my history of neuro symptoms.

I only went with two aims: get a referral for the Baha--which did involve mentioning my dizziness, of course, since I had to tell him about my hearing loss--and ask him to kind of kick-start me with weight loss.

In discussing my weight and activity I did mention my walking problem, and he himself said we need to investigate this further, and he sent me to a PT.

Of course this is not the ideal for health care. You are supposed to give the doctor a complete history. But that clearly does far more harm than good for some of us.

Nancy T.