[jannd228]

Talk Host: Don't automatically accept what your doctor says.

True story: In 1990 I had bouts of pneumonia, had a slip and fall accident, injury didn't heal. Without "routine" tests was diagnosed as having a disease no one had ever heard of, was told it was a "designer disease" by physician in a very well known medical facility in Boston. I believed the diagnosing physician, who told me "without his treatment" I would become paralyzed from the neck down. Problem, I was a dance teacher, 2 locations, very successful, closed business based on his diagnosis, did his treatment.

Believed the diagnosis for 18 years, went to other physicians, they all agreed I had this disease AFTER I told them I had it. I was in pain all the time, especially when it rained. April 2008 while teaching English at a technical high school that considers themselves to be a laboratory for HVAC students, I collapsed and was taken to a Cape Cod Hospital. Pulmonologist told me I had 10% of my lungs functioning, I had a fungus growing in my lungs, cause, a severe allergic reaction to mold. Why could he diagnose it, I never told him I had the other disease, and he had recently re-located to the Cape from CA where his wife, also a physician, had developed the condition.

Unless they have their GPA posted along with their license, DO NOT BELIEVE them!!! They are an industry, not a profession. You are merely how much they can charge your medical insurance, nothing else, IMHO.

If you have rashes and shortness of breath and have allergies to ANYTHING, and are told you have hypertension, go vegan for a week and see if you feel better. I wouldn't wish this on my worst enemy!!!