Post medical tests: crap feeling

[shootingstar]

Okay, not to beat this to death, but this is what I can't stand about our medical system.

"Doctor, I feel like cr*p when I eat this." "Okay, don't eat that. That'll be $800."

She already knows that eating high glycemic-index foods, without immediate exercise, makes her feel cr*ppy. What else does she need to know?

Oak, I'm blessed to have a sibling who is family doctor in Ontario to give me off-the-record advice but there was no follow-through by my regular family doctor in British Columbia. Sister never read on paper my laboratory tests. So from the standpoint of medical ethics, I must have a trail of documented testing and follow-up instead of self-diagnosing with a sister-doctor who lives in another province.

Most patients do not have the expertise of a family member who is a doctor, to advocate on their behalf OR for an informal medical advice for next steps. So I suppose dear baby sister , is doing this..out of professional follow-through and ..concerned love for me.

Also shows how perhaps 1 doctor disagrees with an approach of another doctor.

So different from 25 years ago when I was underweight and ate 2 full bowls of white rice daily for dinner. Full of energy beans back then after such a meal. I wasn't even exercising at all except for walking alot because I didn't drive. Cycling wasn't in my life at that time.

Besides I might as well know...after 50 one can only go ...uh..hopefully very slowly downhill health-wise.