[Starznight]

It seems every time I find a doctor I really like, and really trust, and one who is able to come to an understanding that my body often works in contrary ways to what the textbooks say... They leave me. Only this time not only has my PCP left me but his NP is leaving shortly too. The new doctor who is taking over is a young guy. I mean like really young... fresh from med school young... even though he is duel liscensed for family practice and sports medicine.

But I saw him for the follow-up from my ER visit and he loved to tell me how "Typically, MS presents almost like a stroke... like one day you can't move your arm, or you can't lift your leg... and then it might go away for a bit..." ??? Really???? First off I wasn't aware there was much that was "typical" of MS, and secondly, I can't say of those I know of with MS, that their first symptom was thinking they were having a stroke...

In all fairness he is a family/sports med doctor and not a neuro, but that kind of peeved me all the more that he had the arrogance to try and act like maybe I didn't have MS because I wasn't acting like the stroke victim I assume the textbooks he read said I should. He was nice enough, just kind of holier-than-thou I have a medical liscense so I should know more about your body than you do, kind of young doctor, as has been my experience with almost all the young doctors, even more so when they are younger than I am. Maybe they're intimidated by life experience or something, who knows, but I'm thinking I've probably read more medical journals and textbooks than the half of them, considering I started reading them when I was six years old just for fun.

But either way, I now am faced with trying to find a yet another doctor. Hopefully I can keep in the same healthcare group for that, but either way I can see the two of us having too many head-butting competitions. He even told me that I couldn't really be "allergic" to cortisone as the body produces it itself... Yeah, no #@A$ Sherlock... doesn't change the fact that I have a bad reaction to the drug that interferes with my ability to breath, and since you only get a red band to say HEY DON'T GIVE THESE MEDS, for reported allergies, I'm going to keep cortisone down as an allergy thank you very much.

But seriously why can't doctors just keep practicing medicine till they're dead? I mean my old doctor only just turned 70, that's still young enough right? According to social security my DH and I can't retire till we're in our 70's, why he should be able to skeeve out earlier? Especially when he's abandoning me to the far too young crowd. I mean, he might have read all the books but how much real experience does he have? Other than the fact I could tell pretty quick that it wasn't much, he's smart enough, calm enough, and overall had pretty good bedside manners, at least when he wasn't throwing his book learned education around, which I'm guessing didn't include the "exception to every rule" clause. But I just need a doctor who has witnessed at least a few exceptions to the rules to be open-minded enough to realize that when it comes to practicing medicine, what you get almost always seems to be exceptions to the rules rather than any human body actually following every single rule.

He even asked me if I was running a fever with the kidney infection... I told him no, I don't really run fevers, if anything I go hypothermic rather than hyperthermic when I'm sick. He asked how so...How else, my body temperature drops when I'm sick, lowest it's ever gone is 93.2, it almost never goes up and even if it does it's just a short spike. Less than a 10 minute interval where my temperature might spike up to 99-100, but then it instantly begins to drop right back down again.

Once more I was told how it doesn't work that way. The body doesn't drop it's temperature because you're sick. Was I sure I hadn't just had something cold to eat or drink before taking my temperature, a popsicle or something... So I told him to double check my ER record. There was one instances of my temperature spiking to 99.1 degs, an hour later it was down to 95.3. And no they didn't put me in ice packs because I had such a highhhhhh fever. Tried to explain to him again... this is why I said, my body just works contrary to popular belief

Hopefully, my mom's friend from the sister office can answer back soon about which doctors over there might be just a bit older and wiser (open-minded to things not being textbook). Otherwise it's back to the drawing board once more