dragonfyre's Journal

I saw my new Dr today under very unusual circumstances. In my previous entry I discussed the new pain and what not. It just got worse and worse. I was trying to hold out until my appointment but today I just couldn't handle it any more. Called the new dr and spoke with his assistant and explained the situation to her and on a Friday before a holiday they saw me. I was even just  a touch late. Again he took the time to do a complete job. Ran through the tests and diagnosis and stuff. Overall He probably worked with me about 40 min or so  (very unusual) and made an educated guess (which is all any dr does) on the cause of the pain, gave me some sample pain pills and also did an INR for my blood and stuff and we discussed his diagnosis and what I could do to alieviate the problem or at least get it down to a managable pain level.  Last night was a little rough (aprox 2 hr sleep) but today the pain is down to a manageable level and was even able to get a little bit of work done and expect to actually sleep tonight.  My first impression of him from the original consultation is even better then before. 

I'm still falling and bumping into things but that is something I expect to take longer to fix if it is even fixable.  My biggest problem of the moment was the pain. I did a couple of extra things and that made it even better. Won't say back to normal but at least I can function and work a little bit and expect I will be able to sleep tonight. Anyway I am still a mess but I do see things as improving overall with this dr.

He seems to take the time to actually listen to me, addresses the root problem rather then try to make something up as my previous dr did and I fully expect that this will continue to work out to be an excelent patient/dr relationship. All of this after almost 5 years of substandard drs. I am totally pleased and impressed with him.