HOORAY FOR MELISSA!!!!!! YIPEE FOR HER DOCTOR!!!!!!!!!
I JUST LOVE HEARING GOOD NEWS LIKE THIS!!! KEEP IT COMING!!!
Ladies, see a ton of doctors is really par for the course! In the past 4 years I've seen perhaps 300 hundred doctors be it in hospital or out in consultations and what not! It sounds exaggerated, but it's not - truly! I've been through the majority of doctors in my town and also plenty in Rio and Sao Paulo and I consider everybody, not just consultations!!! My insurance company would probably love to get rid of me if they could do so legally for I've seen a bunch and also gone through tons of testing, which doesn't end - I just saw yet another doctor and will be scheduling an endoscopy and conoloscopy with him.
You've got to understand, it's not a statement on the quality of our doctors, but that of the rarity of our disease! The more I find out about my own case, the more shocked I get as to how hard my case is and how rare it is too! How can we blame our doctors for not thinking masto when the statistics say that IF a doctor sees but just one masto patient in his career he can consider himself fortunate!! THINK about this statement a moment! This is just how very rare masto is for our doctors and how many more rare diseases are there out there? Rare means too few patients to have to worry about studying the disease! They can't find it cause they don't even think about it, even if they have studied it before!
So, although this helps you to have a bit more patience in working with doctors, it also gives you that much more appreciation of those doctors who DO recognize us!!! If the patient is rare, the doctors who know the disease are even MORE RARE than us!
So, don't get impatient with the doctors, they are just as shocked and surprised by the disease as you are - if not more so!!!
CONGRATS Again Melissa! This is great news!
Hugs!!