Finding a doctor for MCS - Environmental Disorders Message Board

dekid · 04-05-2007, 08:57 PM

ref: [url]http://www.healthboards.com/boards/showthread.php?t=55343[/url]

did any of you have difficulty finding a doctor that would listen to you? I just went through a doctors appointment with a "respiratory specialist" who, after multiple questions and retelling me over and over again it wasn't my lungs and it was not allergies, bluntly told me I had sleep apnea! He actually argued with me about getting sick walking into a new building - tightened vocal chords, "bear hug" chest tightness, and not being able to breathe. "its a clean building" he would say... i was so mad... any of you have any suggestions? did you go to specialists? family doctors? THANKS!!!

mod-anon · 04-06-2007, 01:37 AM

Started a new thread with this post, with reference to the original thread. Please do not reply to a 4-year-old thread. If someone hasn't responded in 4 years, they have moved on to other topics or are no longer posting.
You can click on the person's name and click "see other posts by this person".

Machaon · 04-06-2007, 07:35 AM

Doctors seldom have answers to health problems that are outside of their realm of training and experience.

Doctors are just auto mechanics that studied human repair, instead of car repair. How many bad mechanics are there? Many! How many bad, or ineffective doctors are there? Many!

Even the really good doctors struggle with illnesses that are not highly researched or documented.

So....... the end result is that doctors don't want to look less than experts, so in order to charge high rates, without doing much good for patients, the doctors blame the patients for their own illnesses by telling the patient that it is the patient's anxiety or stress that is causes the illness. What this does is robs the patient of any hopes of getting a cure for their misery, when, in many, many, MANY cases, it is the illness, or health problems, that cause the anxiety and stress and not the other way around!

Good luck at finding a doctor who has any credible experience or knowledge of chemical sensitivities.

kilmartin · 04-18-2007, 03:17 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dekid

ref: [url]http://www.healthboards.com/boards/showthread.php?t=55343[/url]

did any of you have difficulty finding a doctor that would listen to you? I just went through a doctors appointment with a "respiratory specialist" who, after multiple questions and retelling me over and over again it wasn't my lungs and it was not allergies, bluntly told me I had sleep apnea! He actually argued with me about getting sick walking into a new building - tightened vocal chords, "bear hug" chest tightness, and not being able to breathe. "its a clean building" he would say... i was so mad... any of you have any suggestions? did you go to specialists? family doctors? THANKS!!!

yep got you Ive had mcs for over forty years got the lot the perfume, cleaners newpaper ink, paint new carpets , wood , wallpapers, new houses , the whole caboodle and cant get help going to homeopathic soon but been before and they asked me loads of questions to see if Id been abused as a kid no way , what a shambles and gave me a powder for the menopause, ha ha , mabye tomorrow now that Im almost sixty theyll give me teeting powders , [removed] ok good luck talk later new friend.