Have you ever been to a doctor for a generalized problem

[KatyaR]

37. Two years ago I went to the doctor with the entire right side

of my face sliding off my head. I didn't know what was going on, I had been in such bad pain for the three days previous that I couldn't even think straight. The whole right side of my face was paralyzed.

My doctor took my blood pressure but never did a stroke test, pretty much acted like he didn't give a shit. I thought perhaps I was having a migraine, since I'd had this crippling pain behind my right ear for three straight days. Since I seemed to know what was wrong, he gave me a pain shot and sent me on my way with an order for an MRI. (He never gives me his own diagnosis, I have to tell him what it is.) The insurance wouldn't approve the MRI. I would have had to have had the pain for TWO WEEKS for them to approve it.

A WEEK LATER I'm no better, and I've been going to work like this. I can't eat, sleep, or talk very plainly at all. I'm absolutely at the end of my rope. My boss sent me back to the doctor, and when I walked in, his nurse said alarmingly, "Wow, you're no better than you were a week ago." No shit Sherlock.

FINALLY I got a steroid, pain medication, and anti-inflammatory, and within a day I started to respond. Unfortunately, two years later, I still have some minor residual damage to the right side of my face. Every time it twitches, I'm cursing my doctor.

My doctor is the worst physician in town. I normally go only once a year to get my thyroid medication renewed. They take my blood pressure and take blood, but the last time, he didn't even touch me. In and out of the exam room in less than five minutes.

I guess since I don't make him any money, he doesn't have to care.