I do the same thing but you know the doctors don't like you to be too informed. I go get lab tests done and find a natural treatment most of the time, they don't like that either...haha and I don't care. I know someone who was told his lab tests were all good and the doctor let him go with diabetes untreated for a whole year. And the same man went into the hospital nearly two decades ago with what he thought was a heart attack, severe pain. The heart specialist in the hospital ran a dye test and two of us watched it and the doctor came back and said he had a mild heart attack, he circled one area of the heart. After he left the room I said "It lit up like a Christmas tree, I didn't see any dark spots where the dye didn't go"....when the man went to another specialist a couple weeks later he was told that he didn't have a heart attack, he had a hiatial hernia and got treated for that.

I went to the hospital to visit a friend that I had worked with for nearly 20 years. She had a stroke a week ago. When we worked together I was impressed at how she took care of herself...she'd walk every day, she went to the "Y" and exercised after work every day, she ate lean chicken or fish (and only ate red meat once a month), lots of veggies and fresh fruit instead of sweets. Even though she's about a decade older than me it surprised me she had a stroke. She said her legs had been swollen and she could hardly walk, she had a doctor in Oklahoma City that she'd been seeing. Then a blood clot let loose and caused her stroke. Now she's finding out that she's been a diabetic for about 2 years and her doctor never told her...she said it's genetic in her family but she was never informed that she had. I guess the hospital pulled some records of hers and they told her. Makes me wonder if these doctors are just trying to drum up more business by neglecting to tell their older patients when they are diabetics or whatever.

well they got it made then don't they?

@cherokeepatti: unfortunately they are taking all of my extra money

Yes and they are causing lawsuits because of it.

@Flenflyys: I think lifestyle changes such as exercise, sunshine and vitamin D, diet and learning to set boundaries and dealing with stress could help many people with depression.

No doubt. Just like diet and exercise can prevent diabetes. But a lot of people would rather pop a pill than do the work.

@Flenflyys: One of my sisters went through a period of ongoing stress and she had a breakdown and was hospitalized for a year, the psychiatrist told her he was going to sign her up for disability and she told him to go to hell, that she wanted to get her nursing license in another state and go to school to do that and then work. She took disability long enough to get through schooling and then started to work again. I think the stress was a major factor, her hair had turned white in her mid 30's a couple years before and it wasn't gradual, all the hair white at once. I told her I thought the stress had burned up all the B-vitamins & pantothetic acid & she needed more and she said her doctor had recommended (a few years after she started working).

they do good here where I live.

Yes it's frightening to think that the ones who are supposed to be so well-educated are not efficient at diagnosing our health problems.