[Intro Music. Vincent Tone - New Summits]
Hey guys! Today's video is going to be a story time video. In my last story time video I
told you guys all about the time I had a doctor diagnose me and my mom with
a psychosomatic illness, and I also talked about how that had affected me. If
you would like to watch that video I'll leave a link to it in the description
below for you to check out. So today I'm going to tell you all about an encounter
I had with a doctor who thought I could just think my pain away.
But before we get into the video, please be sure to give this video a thumbs up if
you enjoyed it, please subscribe if you'd like my content and be sure to check me
out on Twitter and Instagram - all my social media links will be in the
description below. So the story that I'm about to tell you happened about seven
years ago now. I was sick with Lyme for about two years at this point and I did
not know that I had Lyme disease, and I did not have any other diagnoses, so I
had no idea what was making me ill. I think I was about 15 when this happened.
I had got up early that morning to go to the hospital to get my blood drawn. I was
again going for more tests ordered by my doctor. Obviously I was in pain, I was
nauseated, I was fatigued, and I was not feeling the
greatest. I got my blood drawn with no problems at all and then my mum and I
were on our way home. While we were driving on the highway I started to
experience pain exclusively on the left side of my body. The pain was really
intense and it just kept on getting worse and worse.
I could not lay on the side of my body, I really couldn't lift my arms much, my leg
was weak - basically I was in pain on the entire left side of my body and also the
entire left side my body was really weak as well. My mum thought that this was a
very strange symptom, I thought it was a strange symptom, it was the first time I
had ever got it, I was quite freaked out, I was in a lot of pain, I didn't know
what was going on - it was unlike any type of pain I had experienced up until that
point. So my mom she was quite worried and
obviously she did not like seeing me in agony, so there was a different smaller
Hospital in a different town that was just off the highway so we decided to go
to the hospital and hopefully maybe get some pain medication, or they could run
some tests or something to see what was going on. When I got to the hospital my
mom had to put me in a wheelchair and wheel me up there because I was in so much
pain I couldn't use the entire left side of my body, and it was also like I said
my body on the left side was weak - and it was just really weird. When we got there
there was not anyone in the ER waiting room so we were able to get into triage
right away where a nurse saw me, she took my vitals - I told her the symptoms I was
having and also my previous medical history with having an undiagnosed
illness for about two years. So after that I was able to get into a room right
away. It didn't take long for the doctor to come in the room and of course with
every visit to the ER he asked me why I was there today and of course I told him
about the pain that I was having on my left side and the weakness that I was
experiencing with it, and then of course told them all about my previous medical
history and being undiagnosed for two years. After telling him my history he
kind of just stood there with his arms folded and began to tell me that nothing
was wrong. He basically said you know, so what if you have pain? Everybody has pain,
the pain shouldn't stop me from living my life. I was just a teenager I should
be in school learning, hanging out with friends, going to the movies, going to
school dances, playing sports, going to the mall. He then told me that
I needed to stop thinking about the pain, he told me to think about all positive
things and to think positively, and to just ignore the pain and just push
through it. My pain shouldn't stop me from living my life. And the way that he
said all these things it was like he was trying to convince me that my pain
wasn't that bad. You know, I was just teenager there was no way I could be in
that much pain. This little speech went on for about five minutes but it felt
like a lifetime and has basically stuck with me ever since. After he was done
talking he refused to give me anything for my pain, he said that I
didn't need it and all had to do was just to think positively and ignore the
pain and I would be fine. Then when I got up to leave - obviously still being in a
lot of pain and very weak on my left side I had went to obviously get in the
wheelchair so I could be wheeled out to the truck with you know, less pain and
minimal effort because I was obviously feeling like crap. But he actually went
and took the wheelchair away from me and told me that I didn't need that. He said
it so sickly-sweet too - it's almost as if he thought that we were friends and he
said it's so condescendingly and I was obviously very, very angry. I was livid - I
wanted to scream, and I wanted to take a sledgehammer to his hand and tell him to
ignore the pain and think positive. This experience is in the top five worst
experiences I had with doctors in my life. I know it doesn't seem that bad in
comparison to other things that could happen and have happened to other
patients, but this happened at a time when I was young, I was undiagnosed for
two years, I was experiencing Chronic Pain as well as a whole bunch of other
symptoms each and every day, and I was unable to go to school, I've lost a lot
of friends because I had become ill and I had absolutely no answers as to what
was making me sick or what was happening to me. So to have a doctor like this
completely minimize my pain at the level I was experiencing it was very
frustrating, it was sickening and it dissolved my faith in a lot of doctors. I
didn't want to go to see another doctor because I was scared that something like
this would happen again. I also think that the most insulting
part wasn't exactly his words but his actions in him taking away the
wheelchair and my right to use a mobility device when I was experiencing
that of pain - that was the most insulting part
to me, if felt like he had stabbed me. He made up his own mind that I didn't need it,
but didn't ask me if I actually need it because obviously - I have a hundred
percent certain that this doctor thought I was faking my illness, he just didn't
want to outright say it and went on a soul-crushing and minimizing rant
instead. I will say that this experience has stuck with me and it has stuck pretty
hard. I have been accused of doing drugs, I've been accused of hiding a pregnancy
at 13, I've been told it's all my head, I've been told that I'm not even sick,
I've been told that I'm faking it, and I've been diagnosed as having a
psychosomatic illness by multiple different doctors. But I had never had a
doctor acknowledged that I was in pain, minimize my pain, and then take away a
mobility device when I was in pain. I am still in disbelief to this day that
that even happened. I don't even know what to think
other than this experience and all the other experiences I have, have definitely -
it completely dissolved my trust and faith in doctors over the years. I don't
even know what else to say about this experience, other than I wish it didn't
happen, I don't want to go through it again, and I really wish I would have
reported it. So I hope you guys enjoyed today's video. In the comments below I
want to know if a doctor has ever said anything similar to you or if a doctor has
actually ever taken away your mobility device. Thank you for watching this video,
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hope to see you guys next time, bye!
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