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Originally Posted by ~jules~
Thank you for the responses, I have calmed down a bit today 
Alice MD, is a respiratory doctor called just that or do they have a special name? I have a follow up appt. on Oct.9 and I can ask if there is one in town. I think it was a basic lung test they gave me but it didn't show anything unusual, yet I have times daily with shallow breathing. I have explained it happens when I feel no anxiety but he still insists that's all it is.
After calming down some, I agree with you both, that the MG specialist has probably done me a favor by not seeing me. I can't understand being so casually dismissed without even an appointment to see for himself.
My husband and I both believe my doctor includes his thought on anxiety when he does a referral and it skews their thinking from the start. A cardiologist telling me (after saying I had tachycardia and very low blood pressure) to 'go home, take a warm bath and listen to soft music' was a clue to this.
I need to gather up the strength to get thru the next tests and see how things go and make a new plan if needed. |
respiratory physician/ pulmonologist.
A basic lung test may be normal even in someone with significant breathing problems due to MG.
They need to do a more elaborate testing-which would include respiratory muscle strength (MIP/MEP), and also MVV. They will not do this routinely. They only do it if they consider the possibility of neuromuscular disease.
Physicians putting psychiatric diagnoses on their referral letters can be very damaging (although it is a good way to "screen" a good doctor=one which will not be influenced by it).