Journazza

As usual, I’m not satisfied with Western medicine. After having been given contradictory news from various doctors and no advice. Yes, you read it correctly. No advice. Just questions. And then nothing. – No, we can’t tell you why you have it. Yes, it can increase, and first no, then yes it can shrink, but we don’t know how. Come back in six months.

When you are told that you have a benign tumour somewhere inside you (you first are grateful for the fact that it is benign), but when you hear the size – equals a pregnancy’s of week 16, you nearly faint and wonder how on earth it got there without you noticing it.Why did you need to compare it to pregnancy, ms. GP, I wonder though? Was that really necessary?

According to various books and websites, a huge amount of women get fibroids. So, then, why don’t we know anything? A quick google-search tells me it is related to too much estrogen. Which leads me to, should not the doctors be interested in what I eat? More so, shouldn’t they be able to recommend a diet? The last GP I spoke to, said – despite other sources stating the opposite, that acupuncture has no effect. Right, why did I feel that it reduced my pain? More so, why didn’t that interest the doctor? Because it hadn’t been published. Now, how does stuff get published?

No, go and talk to someone else, is what I was told when I asked about alternative methods. I said, I don’t care if it has been published, I want to know what can help me. I don’t want to venture into the alternative jungle, I’d actually like to do it in collaboration with the doctors. Wouldn’t that actually be an advantage for the doctors if we could experiment? Isn’t that better than doing nothing?

I have actually found something that does help: homeopathy. And next time I see that doctor, I will be prepared and I will not give in before I get a collaboration going.. But most of all I wonder, how many patients believe their doctors when they say nothing helps and that acupuncture definitely does not help? That is what I am most worried about, because the power of our thoughts is amazing, and should be celebrated rather than limited.