Angry

Exactly how I feel. Just before my last surgery a few weeks ago (happened to be a knee replacement not BC related) A nurse was going through my paperwork with me & she stopped, looked at me & said  are you a nurse ?  I said no, why ? You certainly seem to have a good knowledge of everything related to your health. My reply to her was, I have learnt over the last three or four years that the only one the really really gives a damn about my overall health & whether something is going to affect another condition is ME, so I have made it my business to ask questions & get the answers. Yes, doctors sometimes aren't particularly happy when you start to question them, but I think I have the right to know if treating one condition is going to upset another. The same thing when I am in hospital & nurses bring tablets, I ask what they are & if they're not part of my regular medication I willl ask why I am having them, I have even been known to send painkillers back because I wasn't in pain, & sometimes they still try to get me to take them, I have to assure them I will ask for them if I need them. I take so many tablets already sometimes I am really over it.

I have to say my champion is my GP, I make sure all results go to her & she will print it out for me, not just say, all ok, or you need to go & see dr so & so.

Keep asking questions till you get answers, be it results, treatment, or medication.

Carmel