{"id":211595,"date":"2010-01-22T05:11:10","date_gmt":"2010-01-22T10:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.diabetesforums.com\/forum\/type-2-diabetes\/47883-ever-become-apathetic-towards.html"},"modified":"2010-01-22T05:11:10","modified_gmt":"2010-01-22T10:11:10","slug":"ever-become-apathetic-towards-doctors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/211595","title":{"rendered":"Ever become apathetic towards doctor’s?"},"content":{"rendered":"
I think I’m getting to the point of apathy for doctors. I find that I just don’t care anymore. I don’t know how to really describe in exactly, but I seem to just go to the doctor’s office out of habit, not because I need to go. Does anyone feel that way too?<\/p>\n

Like today, I went to a Rheumatologist. My family doctor sent me there to have my left elbow checked out. I have calcium deposits in my elbow, so I guess that means I have arthritis in it….at least that’s what my doctor said. I can’t fully extend or bend my elbow, and if I sometimes strain it while working on something, it will hurt for weeks. Eventually, something shifts and the pain goes away, like the way it is now.<\/p>\n

This Rheumatologist examined me, gave me a shot of something in my elbow, gave me a prescription for an NSAID (something called Meloxicam), sent me out for some blood tests and x-rays, and gave me a sheet with info about setting up an appointment for physical therapy at some therapy center.<\/p>\n

I will go back to this doctor to get the results of the x-rays and blood tests, but after that, I’ll never go back. I won’t bother with the physical therapy, and if this NSAID upsets my stomach, and I’m sure it will, I won’t take that either. I just feel like all of this is a waste of time. I think the only reason I went to see her is because I wanted to see how bad my elbow was in the x-rays.<\/p>\n

To me, physical therapy is a scam, and I’d never go for that. It’s nothing that I can’t do on my own at home, but there is no way that anything, short of an elbow replacement, can fix this, so why bother?<\/p>\n

I just find that I no longer seem to care about what the doctor finds, and when they do find something, I have no interest in the treatments. When I’m sitting in the doctor’s office, I keep thinking to myself, "What am I doing here? Why did I bother to come?" Half the time, I don’t even bother to listen, when the doctor is telling me what they found and what I need to do. I don’t remember what this Rheumatologist said today, and it doesn’t bother me that I don’t know.<\/p>\n

I don’t know if this stems from having so many things wrong with me, and taking so many drugs and supplements, that I’ve reached my limit, and my mind says, "No more."<\/p>\n

Has anyone else gotten to this point in their life?<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I think I’m getting to the point of apathy for doctors. I find that I just don’t care anymore. I don’t know how to really describe in exactly, but I seem to just go to the doctor’s office out of habit, not because I need to go. Does anyone feel that way too? Like today, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":178,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/178"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211595\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}