As myy trip down medicine lane for mismanaged and misdiagnosed lifelong conditions it's about damn time. Enough with extreme amplifiction of pharmaceuticals and over-medicating to which I wobbly stand as a reminder iatrogenic disease is no fucking joke. aeon.co/ideas/how-gentle-med…

It took from 1996 when I first started showing Parkinson’s symptoms until July 5, 2013 to diagnosed me with Parkinson’s. Prior to that I was misdiagnosed six times. My first experience was with my PCP who said my tremor was just nerves and not to worry about it.

You and I are Veterans of a terrible and different kind of warfare. I've had to take Klonipin for tremors and absence seizures and it is the ONLY pharmaceutical I take regularly for any reason. I have ridiculously high tolerance for sedative medications, but most do not. :(

I am the opposite of you in that I have a low tolerance for medication. Taking drugs makes me anxious.

It appears to be genetic in origin, but green eyed red/Auburn haired women especially have frustrated anasthesiologists for a very long time. 7 surgeries, woke up every time. Once quipped 'sure this isn't the morgue?' - Surgical suites are freezing!!! :D anesthesiaexperts.com/uncate…

I have green eyes. One time in the hospital to remove cancer from my right ear I woke up halfway through the operation. The doctor was yelling at the lab because they hadn’t sent results in over an hour. I asked if something was wrong. He said be still and they gassed me again

Typical and cold :/ The fascinating part is you were cogent, as was I. I am also a multiphasic sleeper. 2-4 hours. Any more than 6 and I am likely very sick. People are different but checklist, charts, clipboards aren't. Healthcare is not science. "My pain is a 7" is meaningless.

I need more sleep than you. Finally get four hours I am not a nice person and I don’t think straight. I hate it when doctors or nurses asked me what’s your pain level 1 through 10? I don’t know (in a frustrated voice), it hurts enough that I am screaming in pain how about that?

Or when the pain level is lower. I don’t know (in frustrated voice) I groan when I move or it just hurts. I really liked the one when I went in with a head injury. I had passed out & was bleeding. If it wasn’t hurting much I would’ve come to the ER. What’s wrong with you people!

Don’t get me started when they don’t listen to you. With the last doctor I had and sometimes with others it feels like marriage counseling. Now what I believe I heard you say is… Is that correct? Sigh…