Hauled off to doctor, kicking, screaming yelling?

I definitely empathise with you here, Hatley - I don't even really HAVE a doctor of my own, and last year was frightened enough of chest pains that I went to the family doc I used to use for the kids' vaccinations, etc. I'd really like to have a female doctor now, but it's something I keep putting off. At 50, there are all sorts of niggling little pains and worries, and it scares me I'd be in there all day complaining once I got started - and I also think ignorance is bliss. I know it's a pathetic way to behave - but that's just me. I think it's natural to be afraid - we might not be electrocuted or hung, but neither do we want to hear we have any sort of condition, or that we'll need to be on medication.

YES I hate going to the doctors, mainly due to a very weird doctor I had in my early 30's. I had been to his office 3 times in over 10 years, 2 of those times to confirm pregnancies, the third was due to an ear infection, that eventually needed a specialist. I went for the fourth time for muscle problems in my arms and one leg and he told me I was a hypochondriac. Sometimes it seems like they just don't care, if it's not easily fixed with a pill they don't want to deal with you.

I agree, all most doctors want to do is prescribe another medication. Wouldn't it make more sense if they got paid on how healthy the population is instead of by how many medications that they prescribe??? Just a thought.

Hi Hatley... I completely understand how you feel. I hate going to the doctor. Honestly, even if I'm feeling really bad already, if I think I can still manage, I'd refuse to go. Even if I get the "grand" sermon from my mom, siblings and my fiance, I would still say "no". You can imagine how angry they get whenever I say that and they see that I'm already having a hard time breathing. Just recently, I "allowed" them to take me to the doctor because I was coughing bad and wheezing (I have a history of asthma). When I got to the doctor, I was diagnosed with pneumonia complicated by asthma and had to be hospitalized by four days. I sure as heck didn't want to do it but I felt that I had to because I was really sick by then. I tried to be stoic when they stuck the dextrose thingy and when they got a blood sample from my arm and my finger... but I yelled when the nurse did a skin test. (!!!!) It hurt like heck and it was a first for me. She didn't tell me that it would burn like it did. She did tell me that it would hurt after and I couldn't help but say "yeah! I noticed!" Lol. At least I tried to be a good patient the four days I was in the hospital. haha. Even gave my nurses chocolates for being so nice to me during my stay... (but that still doesn't change my opinion that hospitals and doctors suck of course.)

I think you get the sense from some of my discussions that I'm not a great fan of docs to begin with....LOL. And yes, I put off going to them as well. The real pain is that my doctor doesn't DO much anymore...I haven't had blood work in a long time...He no longer takes the blood and then sends it to a lab..now I have to go to the lab and the one I need to go to is too far away from me...I guess everyone assumes one has a car to get to places...well I don't. Anyway, looks like I'm going to have to go to him this week. I thought is was just my allergies acting up or a cold in my system but I have that familiar "twinge" signaling a bout of bronchitis....I stayed home today cause I felt so lousy and it didn't help that it was 90 degrees and very humid....talk about brain fog. So I have to wait until Tuesday to go to my doc...that's when he's available I'm not really afraid of doctors...just the idea of them wanting to shove medications on me...medications that might have a serious side effect

I hate to go to doctors also.. I go often enough with my husband, he has an appointment once a month and I always go with him, but for myself, I never go.. I know that one day it will catch up with me, but as for now, me and the Good Lord work things out.. I am fairly healthy and I am very thankful for that.. I had chest pains one day and went to the emergency room, but before I got to see the doctor, the pains went away, It was indigestion, so I got up and went home before even getting called back from the waiting room.. I don't know why I am so afraid of the doctors but I am.. Good luck on your visit.. Take care.

Oh man yes indeed Hatley, I think with me I think what I do not know is not going to hurt me. One other point with me is that I do not take meds well, so I figure if I am not going to take what the Doc prescribes why go?

I have this thing about doctors. That is because when I found I could not get pregnant, I hurt like crazy, so I went to the doctor. He checked me into the hospital and I signed a form that if anything was wrong, etc. etc. Well they cut my fallopian tubes, said that they had blown air through them as they were twisted. Well it made it worse instead of better. I did go for fixing my wrist but if there was anything about my ovaries, or my uterus, I am terrified. In fact, one time I had a cyst on my ovaries and I bled a lot,and my husband had to practically drag me to the emergency ward. I had visions of my getting everything taking out and I was terrified. I had to ask the doctors there not to take everything out and they had to convince me because of the bad experience I had.

[i]Hi Hatley, I also don;t like that idea since I feel like all they have to do is to prescribe medications and make money out of it, except those doctors who are really sincere and dedicated in their profession! I always accompany my friend before whose husband had a cancer and even if they know already that he will not make it, they still advice him to undergo a certain operation and prior to the operation, he has given injection that cost a lot of money and it will due after 3 weeks before operation will be done and before that 3 weeks, the patient gave up and we know that they know really the condition of the patient, they are making ways to make money! But, I know we have great doctors also![/i]

Hi Hatley. My husband hates going to the doctors. I don't know how many times I've had to reschedule but I told him I am not doing it again. His next appointment is this Thursday so I hope he goes. He is 4 months over due for his diabetes check up and cholesterol too. I think he's afraid of what the doctor might tell him as I know he hasn't been sticking to his diabetes plan. He is stubborn as hell!

Yes, I absolutely hate going to the doctors office. I also have an unreasonable dislike for doctors and dentists. I also have a hard time listening to their advice. Its not that I think I know more than they do, but for example I was recently prescribed a medication and had to titrate up on it. The psychiatrist told me that I couldn't just quit taking them or it would be like coming off heroin. Did I listen? No. I took myself off them a couple of days ago and I have been so ill. I should have listened, but I'm stubborn. I just didn't like the way they were making me feel and I didn't like putting something in my system I felt I didn't really need. Well, I might be right on that point, but perhaps I should have listened closer to the method of not taking them. Either way, I'm not looking forward to going back and hearing the lecture I know I'm going to get.

I have multiple illnesses that must be monitored. But yet I still put off going to my doctor. Only when he won't refill my prescriptions because I haven't been in to see him do I go usually. LOL I also put off my last visit for about four weeks. And that was really stupid because I had a urinary tract infection. One simple pill and I felt fine two days later. But yet I'd suffered weeks just to avoid going in. DUMB! I can understand your not liking to go in. I am the same way. With me it seems every time I go in he finds something else wrong.

i do. its because of the long wait, even when you have an appointment. and the fear something will be really wrong. i had cancer . also, when you find a good dr he retires or something.

Oh, Hatley, I am the world's worst at not wanting to go to the doctor. I figure if something is wrong with me, and I don't know it, I will be fine. I can deal with minor aches and pains. If I go to the doctor, and he finds something wrong with me, I am going to fall apart even more quickly. So, I just don't go. Oh, that's not entirely true. I DO go, but only when I HAVE to.....kind of like you said, kicking and screaming.

yeah i hated it too..i mean i guess i just dont like to hear the bad news or the diagnosis if ever there is one...sometimes even my blood pressure elevates when im inside the clinic especially if i seen or heared some talking about their illness.. especially on the cancer thing or if they are undergoing to have a chemo or something..

I've had several total idiots for doctors over the years. One of them prescribed so much medication, the pharmacy refused to fill it because it was a LETHAL DOSE- and that didn't even count the over the counter things that the doctor told me to take with those meds. I never went back to that doctor. Then I had problems with my knee- and there's also a lump on my knee. Two doctors said that it was fluid in there and wanted to drain it- I refused and they sent me to a specialist. The specialist could not believe that the other doctors had recommended draining that lump...it wasn't fluid- it was BONE. I never went back to the place that wanted to drain my bone. The most recent- I had a back problem- massive pain in my upper back near my neck. The doctor sent me in for $4,000 of tests. I went in for the results.. he gave me a WRIST BRACE. I asked how that was going to help my back.. he said "just wear it!". I went to a different doctor, he did a $200 xray and figured out the problem. That's why I don't care for doctors :)

Hi, I will go to the doc if i think it is really bad. I don't go as often as most of my family thinks I should. I even go as far as having homebirths. I am not afraid of the doc. but I don't think every time I walk in their office I should come out as a walking med. bag. I think docs are to quick to over med. I took my son who is nine now to the doc when he was 7 for a check up. The doc found out he still wet the bed. The doc gave him a pill that would make him STOP making as much pee. Now to me that was scary. I have been tought that your pee is somthing you want out of your body (for good reson). For a 7 year old to be given somthing to make him cut back his wasted was not my idea of the right way to deal with it. MY son is 9 and still wets the bed. I buy him pullups and encourge him to try to wake up and go to the bath room. So far not helping but he does not have kidny problems from some pill shutting down his system.

My friend, it's not about hating to go to the doctor, it's just you don't see it necessary to go have a check up. A lot of people try to put aside to have a check up because of the "fear" of finding that the doctor will find something very bad in your health like one has developed some kind of cancer. I have an aunt who tried putting aside seeing a doctor. She was bleeding non stop. She thought she just had a regular menstruation. But she actually was in a menopausal stage. Bleeding heavily is not a regular menstruation. I encouraged my Aunt to have herself checked out. I even talked to her husband to encouraged her to go see a doctor. She did go even though she was not up to it. She also wanted to know what she can do to stop the bleeding. There the doctor found that she has developed a tumor in her ovary. My aunt got an mastectomy and now is regularly seeing a doctor to make sure her health is in tip top shape. My friend, don't wait seeing some lumps in different parts of your body. Seeing a doctor is not because something is wrong with you but to make sure you are in good state of health. But, you need to help yourself by reading more positive materials about seeing a doctor. You need to see the positive side of it. Being negative will not help your fear of having a check up go away. If you are very careful of your things, why not include your HEALTH? Think it that way. Good luck.