Q...What is this buisness about faking symptoms???

[NrssAngel]

Yeah that's right...medical professionals work so hard to get their degrees...you know staying up all night for exams and preparing for clinical rotations and such just to FAKE symptoms of an illness as debilitating as MS and all for what.....a disability check!!  Not....I would much rather make my 60.00 an hour doing what I love. Give me a break.  I get the whole we don't take care of ourselves but faking symptoms, come on.  Most nurses I know are work a holics just like myself.  I ust to jump at the chance to work doubles here in Cali due to the time and half past 8 and double past 12.  I never left money on the table if I could help it.  Very rarely would I pass up the chance.  And when I was Cath Lab, I was on call 2 weekends a month and 2 days a week.  Yeah...they figured me out.  This infuriates me!!!!  If anything, I run the risk of loosing my job if I'm diagnosed.   What is this all about?????

[Johnny Utah]

People fake for more reasons than disability, lawsuits and claims for injury being the primary reason, I was not speaking of someone trying to fake a symptom to collect disability per se. I was only stating what is contained within the manual and it just gives you some insight into things that your neuro has to consider.

"Doctors don't take it very well when someone shows up in there office and self diagnoses" BINGO.

That was another point, it's not good for most to read this manual including myself. I found it doing a search with my file sharing program and just wanted some better info. I don't like reading something on the computer, hurts my eyes pretty quickly, wish I had a hard copy but I assume it would not be te easy to locate.

Johnny

[T-lynn]

What Johnny was referring to was a MS 2007 book.He was just stating that if you go into a Neuro's office and state that you have been reading up on MS without a DX that a Neuro may beleive that a person is faking or exaggerating symptoms.

Doctors don't take it very well when someone shows up in there office and self diagnoses.

Don't take it personaly its one writers opinion and its imformative to the ones with the medical knowledge to comprehend.

Hope this helps

[NrssAngel]

Did you get a chance to look at my timeline?  Am curious what you think.  

[NrssAngel]

Referred to in a post by Johnny....will try to find it and bump up.  It was stated in a book about MS that the two of you have?  

[Quixotic1]

Uhhh....I'm mystified.  I have no clue what you are talking about.  Q

[NrssAngel]

I would like you opinion on this.   I hope I didn't make you feel like I was angry with you, just expressing my distaste for ignorance but would love to know how the writers of the book came to this conclusion???