| So a few pieces of advice from friends in healthcare: 1. try to mention keywords to know how bad the condition is affecting you. If you're vague they don't know just how bad your situation could potentially be. Apparently saying "homebound" could be key for me since despite the medium nature of my symptoms, the combination of them all has effectively kept me homebound. The other big problems drs care about is affect on fundamental biological processes, like heart, breathing, eating, vision, sex etc... 2. Go prepared to appointments with data and history with dates. I've been told doctors appreciated patients that take their disesase seriously and are organized. (yet to work for me lmao but I think it makes sense) 3. Focuse on the top symtpom and maybe up to 2 others, but don't bring too much up or else it could be too messy and the doctor will be annoyed by too many things going on. They have a limited window to discuss things 4. Since the appointments are so far out, unfortunately to get the best chance possible, that means making appointments for several doctors at the same time and cancelling if you don't need it anymore. But this was what a friend did. He interviewed the doctors and rejected drs that would not listen or was not willing to work with him. 5. I've had great luck just running tests myself if I want to pursue a theory. There seem to be several companies that are gateways to quest diagnostics blood test centers. It's dirt cheap (in time and money), and you can show up next day and get the results digitally. I know drs probably frown on this but I can move quickly and trade tiny amounts of cash (less than a copay usually) for quick answers. https://www.ultalabtests.com |