I received the results of my heart echo today. The letter was a bit snotty from the rheumy!! It says I have an increase in velocity at LVOT, which she doesn't think will cause me any problems, but then she goes on to say she doesn't even know why they did the echo on me in the first place! She was the one who said she would not prescribe me any Amitriptyline until I had one!! Plus the doctor in the hospital said it would be a good idea as I keep fainting, which she knew about! I really think she couldn't be bothered from the start! I mean, when I went to see her for my first appointment she wiggled my fingers, made me bend over, poked my fibro pressure points then asked me questions and from THAT she deduced that I didn't have arthritis in my knees, I was hypermobile but that wasn't painful (yeah ok) and all my problems were the fibro!! Thankfully I saw a different rheumy for my follow up. He read her notes, looked puzzled and gave me a full examination. He said the joint pain I felt on using them was the hypermobility syndrome, the pain and stiffness in other places was fibro and I do have osteoarthritis in my knees! He wrote a proper diagnosis letter to my GP too.
This was a bit of a rant but so many people have gone through this kind of thing and it is so wrong!! x
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