What to do about my Doctor not listening??
Question:
The first time he gave me pills I tooke one as directed and I felt like my heart was barely beating.. I felt weak and very very tired barely making it to my bed before passing out. What should I do to get him to listen to me? I think my BP is normal and taking the those pills dropped my BP too low, but, he wont listen.
Answers:
I have a doctor that was prescribing PB pills at the highest dose. I was unable to lift my right leg and began to have a cough and chest congestion.
Fortunately I got a stomach virus and was unable to take meds for three days.
I took my BP at home and found that I go anywhere from 120/65 to 103/40 so you can see that my BP is really quite low. When I was taking these meds I could bartely function and I was getting hand cramps and so much fatigue, but she kept prescribing Avalide to me anyway.
I stopped taking these without her knowledge, but kept checking my BP weekly for a few months.
I suggest that you buy a good BP monitor at a drug strore and monitor yourself for awhile. In the meantime stop taking the BP meds and see a doctor that will listen.
switch doctors.
if you passed out you need to go to a different doctor
First I would consider finding a new doctor. Also, if you must see this doctor again go with something in writing from at least one or more of your other doctors. Also, there is a such thing as white coat syndrome. If you become anxious before seeing this doctor your B/P may actually rise.
If your dr wont listen then get a new one.
Change doctors. Follow your instinct. Could your doctor be getting some sort of extra perks from the company that sells the BP pills? That would make sense about why he's trying to ''push'' it on you.
Meanwhile, do what feels right. If you don't trust your doctor, go to another one. You'll feel more comfortable and happy, in the long run.
I had the same problem with my doc, after a while I got mad and frustrated that I pay him for a service that I felt it wasn't being done on the proper way, he was rude to me all the time, so I just change and I' very satisfied , that was the right decision, I also have to take chemotherapy once a week so sometimes I'm in pain, depressed I do not need the stress of a doc being a jerk we all need TLC
It's more likely the allergist isnt taking the blood pressure correctly. This has happened to me and either a larger cuff was needed or as in my case, I would get anxious about the difference when I went to family doc and it would always also be elevated, but it was due to "white coat syndrome". If I sat for five minutes thinking happy thoughts and deep breathing, the BP always went back down. Now as I am older, I do have high BP and I do remember how weak feeling they made me and tired for the first couple weeks to a month, that is a natural response to the medication until your body geets used to it. I suggest going to a different primary care physician if you feel your current doctor is not either "listening to you" or "hearing your legitimate concerns". Ask your allergist for a referral to their family doc!
Good luck and don't give up until YOU FEEL taken care of properly!
You may be right.
That Dr should listen to you and since he dont--you should change Drs.
They should be taking your B/P manually--It is the Correct method. Any of those machines could be very wrong. And it sounds like that one is.
If you cant change then INSIST they check your B/P manually. Taking those pills without high B/P is dangerous and could even be fatal. At first I was thinking about white coat syndrome--where ppl get so nervous that there B/P goes up when they get to the office but that cant be the case with you as you had already been to a Dr--your allergist and it wasnt high there.. So I think it is the machine and they wont do a manual check (that is just laziness) then change if you can..
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