Bad doctor experience
So, I had an interesting appointment yesterday with a neurophysiologist. I got carpal tunnel syndrome last year after taking Letrozole, and have since changed to Arimidex. I still have tingly fingers, but I can feel things and my hands are stronger, so decided to get reassessed to see if I could avoid surgery (simple and short surgery but loooong recovery period). After the test, he was telling me the results, but was very confusing. He said I’m not an oncologist, all I can tell you is from what I know. But you’d need to get assessed based on your whole history.
Me: ok, so should I book another appointment?
Him: no! You’ve already done it!
Me: ...so then should I have the surgery?
Me: ...so then should I have the surgery?
Him: I can’t tell you what to do without a full assessment without taking your history into account!
Me: so how would I get that?
Me: so how would I get that?
Him: you’d have to make an appointment with a neurologist, like me, and get it checked.
Me: so then I do need another appointment, where the doctor could check everything and then tell me what to do.
Me: so then I do need another appointment, where the doctor could check everything and then tell me what to do.
Him: no! You don’t need another test! You’ve just done one!
Me: 😶.
Him: you’ve got this condition, it’s not going away, so based on what I know, I’m telling you fix it!
Me: ok, I know it needs fixing and surgery is probably best. But are there any known long term effects of the surgery?
Him: long term it will kill you!
Me: 😳😳😳😳😳😳😳
Him: you had bca, did you have surgery straight away or wait?
Me: straight away, in my case.
Him: you had bca, did you have surgery straight away or wait?
Me: straight away, in my case.
Him: so there you go.
At this point I decided to leave. Very confused and very down. Am I wrong to think you can’t compare ca with carpal tunnel syndrome? They don’t work in the same way. And not all bca patients have surgery straight away. But most importantly, he didn’t answer my main question, about the long term effects of the surgery and recovery time. He just mentioned the word no one wants to hear in a doctor’s office: ‘kill’. I googled afterwards and there are different ways to control carpal tunnel syndrome, none of which he mentioned. Also, my results were not worse, if anything they were better. But it was just the attitude. And whenever I tried to explain smth quickly, he’d cut me off straight away and waffle on for ages, then still not allow me to speak. Is it my imagination, or was this experience really bad?
