Spontaneous Impressions

It seems that where i look lately i’m reading about horror anti-fat medical professional stories, and it’s time i confess.  I’m so lucky to have a great family doctor, Dr. Y.  Although she’s on occassion sat me down for that “you need to lose weight” it’s never been pushy and happens very rarely. In fact the only problem my mom has with her (for her own visits, not mine) is that sometime Dr. Y will not explain the seriousness of something effectively… aka scare the shit out of you so that you’ll change.  I myself do not see Dr. Y like this.  However being a Crohnnie i have another doctor….. Dr. K.

I don’t like Dr. K. and it all stems from a rather embarrassing and very cruel way in which he spoke to me while doped up on sedatives. I went in for my first colonoscopy and endoscopy. While flying high this is the one and most distinct thing i remember about the endoscopy part. See I was gagging so much because no one told me to breath through my nose, and while you’d think that this would be an obvious choice when they’re shoving a scope down your throat when you on the sedatives you really can’t think straight, you just do what they say. So needless to say i was gagging extremely despite my throat being numb and weird feeling.  Although i can understand Dr. K’s frustration in no way should he have yelled at me “You need to stop gagging or i can’t do this”.  1. gagging is a reflex and it’s not really under much of my control (and i was still gagging just not as much when breathing through the nose) and 2. Just because i’m doped up doesn’t mean i won’t remember.  To this day it’s the one and only thing i remember about the whole process.

The other thing about Dr K. is he’s an anti-fat doctor. He has told me to lose weight, and then got all anti fat on me when he put me on medication that you can gain weight on despite the fact he’s seen records of what i eat on a daily basis. When it comes to food and fat, he assumes I’m lieing, and gives me that fat speech and it’s soooo tiresome.  I know that i should look for another GI, but he’s good at the crohn’s thing and he’s conviently located. We’ll see how it goes because so far it’s anti fat 2 for 4 visits… If he still presses the issue, or if he dares to see weightloss as a good thing during a flare i’ll put him in his place.  See the thing about losing weight without changing anything for me is a huge red flag that my body (which already has tons of troubles absorbing nurtients and things because that’s part of what having crohn’s is) isn’t doing it’s digestive job correctly and can lead and most likely would mean I’m being malnutritied (sp?) which isn’t hard to do with crohn’s and has nothignn to do with what you put in your body .

It saddens me to see more horrible medical stories because i feel that my experience although probably common isn’t as bad as a lot i’ve read about.