I know the feeling! Ack! I hate being condescended to. And that's why I'm very happy with my current doctors (two women in the practice, and only one of them is a surgeon, so I have to see them both for this issue). The regular one is sometimes condescending in an overly solicitous way, but I recognize it as an attempt to keep from being condescending in the old-fashioned, pat-your-pretty-little-head way. So, I forgive her.

I hope you find the answers to your problems!

Karen