A note on "people in your 'age group'..."

Just because people in my age group do or don't do whatever thing should not have baring on what medical professionals say to me or what they are willing to do for me. Because of past experiences, it takes a lot for me to go to a doctor. When I do, I am there to find out what the problem is and fix it. I am not there to be cool. I am not there to get drugs. I am not there to treat one symptom and ignore the rest because 'the medication for that will make the other problem not be a problem'.

Seriously. It took me years to get a simple pair of glasses for my astigmatism because the optometrist kept saying how people my age never wear their glasses so she only wanted to give me reading glasses. For people that don't know reading glasses aren't made the same as regular glasses. This means the didn't work nearly as well as they should. Also because of the type of work I do, I read a lot so the reading glasses were on my face most of the day... so why not have the correct Rx,am I right?

I talked about the experience I had with the audiologist last post...

This other incident may just be because it is the VA... or I may just have terrible luck with trying to find a decent doctor.After many visits to get tests done to try to figure out why I was having troubles breathing (though I did tell her every other symptom I was experiencing to try to get myself straightened out...) to include an asthma test even though I told her it wasn't asthma and didn't even produce the same type of breathing problem as asthma. I got an answer of ' we don't know what was causing that problem, none of the tests found the answer but in you x-ray to check for pneumonia, we discovered you have a fractured disc, a curve in your spine, and degenerative disc disease' and when I asked about the knee pain I had been having for years (I was willing at that point to believe the other joint pains were vitamin d deficiency and would improve) was told 'the pain medication for your spine will take the pain away from your knee too so we won't examine that'.

I didn't go to be filled with pills and avoid finding the cause of the problem. I went to find out what was wrong and, if possible, to fix it. Ah well. Apparently I am a clone of people 'my age' and can't think for myself and want to fix problems to improve my life... nope, I must be doing it to be cool.

But ya know, when I finally got a correct pair of glasses and could see I was so happy I almost cried.I just need to be strong and persistent. Forget stereotypes, be you and help you because for the most part, no one else is going to.