go to doctors. Most only believe each other and not you, and they won't budge. You're not part of their clan.
Some doctors care more about meeting the metrics of care than you. They act as gatekeepers to keep costs down, and you might be magically cured if your insurance doesn't cover your problem. Yes, it's a miracle!
AKA 'failing the wallet biopsy.'
Been bitten by recluses twice. Since your bite did get better, the doctor may have been right. I wish you'd had the remains of the spider for him, eww.
If it'd been recluse, it would have not stopped until the wound grew and ate your flesh off without the use of antibotics.
My first recluse bite, I didn't go to the doctor right away but when she saw it, she knew what it was. Second time, she gave antibiotics as it was the same thing.
As far as the diabetes BS, fire this doctor. Sounds like he'd amputate the wrong foot or something when he can't even be bothered to read the chart and see who he was talking to.
Perhaps next time call the nearest poison control center and tell them about it to get out of seeing this numbskull, if you can't change doctors.
When I was bitten by a snake, that looked a lot like a rattler, I called up the doctor's office as everywhere was fifty miles away then. If it'd been a real rattler, I'd have had to call the volunteer fire department to get help. Some of my neighbors had to be life flighted to a big city to save their lives.
But with this, they asked specific things about the newly deceased by shovel snake. It turned out to be a bull snake, not a rattler so I didn't go in. The venom still hurt from the hand up through to the shoulder and one side of my chest. No big deal.
Glad you are better. And do change doctors if you can and don't worry about what they say. It's clear the doctor read off a script or something. It's maddening at times.
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