The Friday Five: Illness
Aug. 11th, 2019 05:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mesotablar I thought the questions this week were particularly interesting
1. How are you feeling today?
Sort of un-energetic with a mild headache and minor joint pain.
2. Have you gone to one of those emergency/urgent care walk-in clinics?
Yes, years ago. I found their care less than helpful so now I always go to one of my doctors or I contact my specialists at the hospital. The emergency walk-in clinics always seem to have massive wait times, so much so that it is better just to ring my normal doctor clinic and tell them it is an emergency because then they will put me on the urgent list for a home visit.
3. What symptoms made you go there?
Joint pain, swelling, reduced mobility, basically the start of my chronic illness. A 'sport injury' that turned out to be autoimmune disease.
4. Does it make you feel better to have the doctor translate your symptoms into a medical-sounding diagnosis (e.g., really bad cough = bronchitis)?
I learnt from the whole situation that I don't care a bit about diagnosis, the only thing that really matters is effective treatment. Even now, after years, my diagnosis is still vague, and that diagnosis will change if the treatment becomes ineffective because my type of autoimmune disease is happy to colonise anything in my body.
5. What is the worst tasting medicine you have ever had?
Hands down it was definitely Panadol crushed up in water. That stuff is nasty.
1. How are you feeling today?
Sort of un-energetic with a mild headache and minor joint pain.
2. Have you gone to one of those emergency/urgent care walk-in clinics?
Yes, years ago. I found their care less than helpful so now I always go to one of my doctors or I contact my specialists at the hospital. The emergency walk-in clinics always seem to have massive wait times, so much so that it is better just to ring my normal doctor clinic and tell them it is an emergency because then they will put me on the urgent list for a home visit.
3. What symptoms made you go there?
Joint pain, swelling, reduced mobility, basically the start of my chronic illness. A 'sport injury' that turned out to be autoimmune disease.
4. Does it make you feel better to have the doctor translate your symptoms into a medical-sounding diagnosis (e.g., really bad cough = bronchitis)?
I learnt from the whole situation that I don't care a bit about diagnosis, the only thing that really matters is effective treatment. Even now, after years, my diagnosis is still vague, and that diagnosis will change if the treatment becomes ineffective because my type of autoimmune disease is happy to colonise anything in my body.
5. What is the worst tasting medicine you have ever had?
Hands down it was definitely Panadol crushed up in water. That stuff is nasty.
