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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Thanks, but it's already here. We spent a year going to various specialists and doctors for my daughter and no one could really diagnose why she was too dizzy to stand up straight, and couldn't think or formulate sentences when she was dizzy. One neurologist, after watching her stagger down the hall, said: "I really wish you'd come when you're having one of the dizzy spells so I can see what's wrong."

And that's BEFORE Obamacare. Went to another neurologist who said he couldn't find anything so it was probably "conversion disorder" that would be helped by physical therapy. That at least put us on the right tract. Long story short, several sessions with physical therapists and chiropractor, and she's able to function again.

6 posted on 07/21/2010 10:58:01 AM PDT by knittnmom ("...only dead fish 'go with the flow'". - Sarah Palin 7/09)
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To: knittnmom

Sorry, track, not tract.


7 posted on 07/21/2010 10:58:29 AM PDT by knittnmom ("...only dead fish 'go with the flow'". - Sarah Palin 7/09)
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To: knittnmom

You’re telling a very different story than this article, though. You had the ability to go to various specialists - who were having trouble diagnosing her, and you finally struck on a right answer. The child in the article had no choice but to go home and die - and THAT’s medicine under Obamacare.


9 posted on 07/21/2010 11:02:36 AM PDT by cammie
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To: knittnmom

I am terribly sorry that your daughter suffered so much, but, honestly, ( as a health professional myself) sometimes we just aren’t able to make a diagnosis.

I am pleased that you were able to find the help that she needed to get well. Also...Please remember that sometimes people get better, on their own, and the treatment prescribed had nothing to do with the recovery.


30 posted on 07/21/2010 12:27:54 PM PDT by wintertime (Good ideas win! Why? Because people are not stupid.)
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To: knittnmom
I concur. Always, always, always get a second opinion if your gut says something isn't right.

More than once my doctor said you have "X" take this pill and see me in a week if you don't get better.

Damn near died several years ago after getting some digestitional problem where I was passing blood by the buckets and could not even hold down glass of water. My doctor (who no longer is my doctor) told me I had a large intestine ulcer and to modify my diet and it would clear up.

After a week, I checked myself into a hospital because I was so weak I could barely get out of bed to crawl to the bathroom anymore

Turned out I had some nasty bacterial infection which was tearing up my guts. Lost almost 25 pounds in two weeks.

49 posted on 07/21/2010 5:09:16 PM PDT by Popman (Why does the New Black Panther Party want to kill saltines ?)
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