Hey mums, has anyone been told by their doctor that they are sick, but do not feel sick?
I have had pain down my arm from my head a few times so decided to go to the doctor after thinking it could be a clot. She thinks it's migraines. She checked me over and said i have a fever, red throat and slightly high blood pressure. She said i needed antibiotics, so she gave me some. The thing is, i feel absolutely fine? I'm not hot, my throat isn't sore and apart from the pain i feel great! She said she'll do a scan on my brain if when i go back in two weeks and I'm not feeling better. But like i said, i feel fine?
Not really sure what I'm asking to be honest.
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My son never looks sick until he collapses! Then of course it’s too late and he ends up in hospital. He’s been like that since he was a child so I used to have to monitor him very carefully.
I often don’t realise how sick I am. This year I had a really bad run with asthma. Never occurred to me how sick I was until the doctor sent me to emergency. To be honest I’ve felt a lot sicker and not been sent to emergency.
The key is feelings don’t always equate to how sick you are.
I feel like saying it's just migraines is kind of dismissing my concerns. I told her that the last episode lasted quite a few hours and the next day my whole arm felt weak. I am taking the antibiotics and will wait to see how that goes. Thank you for your reply.
How you feel is not always indicative of your actual health.
As a migraine sufferer, I find it a bit odd that she hasn't referred you to a neurologist and ordered an MRI (especially if a clot was a concern!).
And that she hasn't referred you to a cardiologist given your arm pain and high blood pressure.
If you feel dismissed by your doctor and are a bit sceptical about the diagnosis - please get a second opinion!
I have migraines but not often. This doesn't feel like a migraine, more like a throbbing ache from the right side of my head, down my neck and shoulder to my right arm.
My dad thought he had a cold, he was run down and just not feeling well.
The Doctor gave him a once over, he infact had cancer, it had spread so far they couldn't find where it started.
6 weeks later he was gone.
He was 59