So, after I keep telling myself I have given up on my eyes/doctors etc... I decided to get another referral and am kicking myself again.
Just wanted to get my thousands and thousands of ever worsening floaters finally checked out with a thorough dilated eye exam by an ophthalmoligist, and to have a discussion about possibility of surgery given the extreme nature of my floaters.
Wasn't even really expecting my GP to give me a referral. He wasn't concerned about my floaters, but to my surprise he did give me the referral, and I was quite happy until I got home and read it.
It was brief (fair enough) just stated that I wanted to discuss my floaters with (retinal specialist). Doc then basically stated that he thought that I was a complete nut job. Not that I was being over anxious or whatever made it clear that I was nuts. I don't want to repeat the exact words.
Whether true or not, how is this fair? It seems like discrimination to me. I know people will say that the doc needs to provide the complete medical history, in this case why didn't the doc include other stuff that was much more relevant to an eye doc (ie, severe dry eye, eye pain etc, he didn't mention this AT ALL). It is also obviously very embarrassing for me to have to show this referral to reception staff as well as the eye doc.
So straight up there is no way this eye doc will even consider doing surgery for floaters on someone who is labelled as nuts in the referral. Now, I wasn't really expecting the eye doc to agree to the surgery in any case... but I had hoped he would at least do a thorough examination of inside my eyes and take my concerns seriously. But with the referral that's been provided, the eye doc is just going to consider me a nut case and at best do a pretend glance at the inside of my eyes to try to pacify me, whilst never really looking or considering there could be a real problem.
What are patients supposed to do? You guys will say go see another doc... I've seen many... how many am I supposed to see before I get someone to perform the simple task of actually examining inside my eyes. It doesn't matter what I say, they won't check out the inside of my eyes. At this point I am so exhausted with seeing so many doctors and optometrists and I just don't have the strength to try to find another GP or optometrist who will actually give me a referral to an ophthalmologist to examine severe floaters. Should I go to this retinal eye doc with the "crazy" referral or just give up? I feel I will be truly happier when I actually "give up" seeing doctors but I am like a gambler returning for one last punt hoping that this time it will be different and it never is. Does anyone else feel like this?
Just wanted to get my thousands and thousands of ever worsening floaters finally checked out with a thorough dilated eye exam by an ophthalmoligist, and to have a discussion about possibility of surgery given the extreme nature of my floaters.
Wasn't even really expecting my GP to give me a referral. He wasn't concerned about my floaters, but to my surprise he did give me the referral, and I was quite happy until I got home and read it.
It was brief (fair enough) just stated that I wanted to discuss my floaters with (retinal specialist). Doc then basically stated that he thought that I was a complete nut job. Not that I was being over anxious or whatever made it clear that I was nuts. I don't want to repeat the exact words.
Whether true or not, how is this fair? It seems like discrimination to me. I know people will say that the doc needs to provide the complete medical history, in this case why didn't the doc include other stuff that was much more relevant to an eye doc (ie, severe dry eye, eye pain etc, he didn't mention this AT ALL). It is also obviously very embarrassing for me to have to show this referral to reception staff as well as the eye doc.
So straight up there is no way this eye doc will even consider doing surgery for floaters on someone who is labelled as nuts in the referral. Now, I wasn't really expecting the eye doc to agree to the surgery in any case... but I had hoped he would at least do a thorough examination of inside my eyes and take my concerns seriously. But with the referral that's been provided, the eye doc is just going to consider me a nut case and at best do a pretend glance at the inside of my eyes to try to pacify me, whilst never really looking or considering there could be a real problem.
What are patients supposed to do? You guys will say go see another doc... I've seen many... how many am I supposed to see before I get someone to perform the simple task of actually examining inside my eyes. It doesn't matter what I say, they won't check out the inside of my eyes. At this point I am so exhausted with seeing so many doctors and optometrists and I just don't have the strength to try to find another GP or optometrist who will actually give me a referral to an ophthalmologist to examine severe floaters. Should I go to this retinal eye doc with the "crazy" referral or just give up? I feel I will be truly happier when I actually "give up" seeing doctors but I am like a gambler returning for one last punt hoping that this time it will be different and it never is. Does anyone else feel like this?
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