1 Aby vs 100 Gorillas<p>I had a doctor appt about my shoulder today, he looked over the MRI report and referred me to a specialist because I'm going to have to have surgery. </p><p>The referral was faxed through immediately (it's 2023 and we're still using faxes apparently..?) and I got a call this afternoon to make an appointment with them - 9th January was the earliest I can see him.</p><p>I asked about getting endone (oxycodone) for pain because nothing else is working. I explained that I understand why he might be reticent to prescribe it because of the addiction risk, but that he's known me a few years now and has seen that I use both panadeine forte (fibromyalgia) and xanax (anxiety and ocd), and in the years that I've seen him my dose has never increased because I'm very fucking careful about how I use drugs.</p><p>He said he was fine prescribing it for me, and "if I'm not going to give it to you for this, when *would* I prescribe it? Your shoulder is definitely badly injured, and you're in pain."</p><p>I can't explain how it feels to have a doctor believe you when every illness you've experienced has been fobbed off as you just being fat and crazy your entire life.</p><p>He also apologised that it's taken us almost 18 months to work out what was wrong, and went back over all my previous tests and scans to see if he missed things - he hasn't, they only hint at bursitis and don't show anything about the tears and lesions etc. </p><p>Shoulders are difficult because everything is really tucked right in there, and you can't see much without an MRI... but best practice is to use other scans and physio etc first because MRIs are expensive and difficult.</p><p>I really like my doctor.</p><p><a href="https://aus.social/tags/Medical" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Medical</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Physio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Physio</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Health" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Health</span></a></p>