Off topic, but I am a little frustrated at a doctor I saw today!

[Bee2017]

I went to ENT today to sort my ear out (ongoing problems with hearing from childhood) he was asking what medical issues I had and what medicine I took and I have no idea why. Anyway so I went in as I have this sharp pain in my ear and constant itching in it which I use an earbud for to get the itch. When he asked about the meds I was on and what for I had said it was for my PND & OCD. Which I didn't tell him about straight away as I didn't know why that made a difference to my ear problem. So then the next thing he was like well it's a good job you told me about your OCD as that's why you itch it so much with an ear bud because its part of the OCD and completely the compulsion of wanting your ear to be clean! I was just so shell shocked, for starters the reason I itch my ear with an earbud is because it itches and I want the itching to go away not because its a compulsion or wanting to be clean as he put it and secondly I suffer from intrusive thoughts but he just assumed I had the cleaning side of OCD without even asking me first! I was just so stunned to see how ignorant he had been and didn't correct him as I honestly didn't have the patience and I was just lost for words. Sorry I just had to come on here and rant because I was just lost for words earlier.

[taurean]

It shows how important the spreading of awareness is. 

There is, sadly, still a very long way to go

 

[Angst]

Hi Bee2017. I had a similar problem getting referral to an ENT specialist. Two GPS discounted my problem deciding it was a mental health problem. With the help of an audiologist I finally got the GPS to refer. I had a very serious ear infection which had nearly completely destroyed the hearing bones of my middle ear and would soon destroy the bone concerned with balance and eventually would destroy the thin bone barrier which separates the ear from the brain. It took two operations to sort out the problem.

Unfortunately these things do happen. A misdiagnosis where a physical problem is interpreted as a mental problem. A friend had the same problem with his diagnosis of cancer. When he got diagnosed it was too late to do anything.