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Old 10-05-2012, 07:37 AM
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Doctors have a term for this type of long list of symptoms presentation...
they call it "the organ recital"... and along with that term is an immediate diagnosis of mental problems by most of them.

Please think about this before you try a long list of symptoms on a new doctor. When one has a complex set of symptoms and problems, it seems natural to list them all. But doctors don't see it that way...they see obsession.

Choose your presentation carefully, and focus on loss of function, lifestyle effects, etc.

People with hard to diagnose medical issues may visit many doctors, and mostly to no avail. Recently we had a poster on neuropathy forum who had been to 16 specialists, and still has no diagnosis.(and no treatment I might add).

I am not implying that this is correct or a good thing. But it sadly happens to be what is real in the medical field today.
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