Jodie RM
I'm getting a MRI scan, sometime in the next week.
(not my photo)
My doctor's have been pissing about for ages - I never get to see the same person, they hardly look at my records. The one I saw most recently asked whether I thought I had a 'stomach bug'. A stomach bug lasting 5 months? No. He's sending me for an MRI scan, just to check that they is 'nothing scary' (his words, not mine) that's causing my head aches and pain. He also said that they'll test me for glandular fever when they do my next blood tests. I'm just so tired and frustrated with this. I know that I am ill, but I feel as if the doctor's don't believe me - they keep asking me if I drink, as if I have a hangover. I haven't drunk properly since I was put on SSRI's around April. They want to put all my pain and illness down to me being a student, and are treating it as such. It's so patronising. Yes, I am a student, yes I am young. But I'm also ill. I'm not staying up until 5 am each morning, drinking alcohol continuously like they think. I may only be 19, but I'm still a human being, and I have every right to be treated like one. I feel if I were older, they'd treat this so much more seriously.
As it is, I'm not living like a young person. I've hardly been to Uni at all since October, which is worrying me as I don't want to be kicked off my course, but I spend most of my time in bed, or on the sofa, too ill to even shower.
I can't stress how frustrated this makes me. Even now, when they finally seem to be testing me for what's wrong - they seem to only be doing it to humour me. Why is it so hard to get people to take you seriously?
But anyway, MRI scan. That should be interesting. And scary.
I'm getting a MRI scan, sometime in the next week.
(not my photo)
My doctor's have been pissing about for ages - I never get to see the same person, they hardly look at my records. The one I saw most recently asked whether I thought I had a 'stomach bug'. A stomach bug lasting 5 months? No. He's sending me for an MRI scan, just to check that they is 'nothing scary' (his words, not mine) that's causing my head aches and pain. He also said that they'll test me for glandular fever when they do my next blood tests. I'm just so tired and frustrated with this. I know that I am ill, but I feel as if the doctor's don't believe me - they keep asking me if I drink, as if I have a hangover. I haven't drunk properly since I was put on SSRI's around April. They want to put all my pain and illness down to me being a student, and are treating it as such. It's so patronising. Yes, I am a student, yes I am young. But I'm also ill. I'm not staying up until 5 am each morning, drinking alcohol continuously like they think. I may only be 19, but I'm still a human being, and I have every right to be treated like one. I feel if I were older, they'd treat this so much more seriously.
As it is, I'm not living like a young person. I've hardly been to Uni at all since October, which is worrying me as I don't want to be kicked off my course, but I spend most of my time in bed, or on the sofa, too ill to even shower.
I can't stress how frustrated this makes me. Even now, when they finally seem to be testing me for what's wrong - they seem to only be doing it to humour me. Why is it so hard to get people to take you seriously?
But anyway, MRI scan. That should be interesting. And scary.