If you are suffering with an invisible illness, the effect on your career can be devastating. Being sick takes its toll on your wallet, too, and before you know it you are caught up in a whirlwind of co-pays, prescriptions, supplements, or alternative treatments, making your need for an income more vital than ever.
The problem is that it is a challenge to will your body to cooperate each morning when the alarm makes its presence known. You feel as though you haven not slept at all, and greet the day with joint pain, cramping, nausea, or a blinding headache. You literally force your body from the bed, and then ask its permission to function.
Something so simple as brushing your teeth or combing your hair can be quite a challenge. For me, taking a shower was like living a nightmare. The hives and subsequent hours of itching made me dread the shower like the plague.
And what about actually interacting with your coworkers? By the time you get there, you are exhausted from the morning fiasco and it takes all you have to start working. I was unable to focus and found my mind wandering to the time when I could finally escape and go home. Each minute seemed like an hour.
Lucky for me, I was able to get by and keep my job. I became a master at making it appear as though it would taken me weeks to finish a project when in actuality I buckled down and completed it in a few hours. What did I do the rest of the workdays? I took stolen naps whenever I could or started at my screen and pretended to work. I can only imagine what wouldve happened if I ultimately been unable to perform.
Doctors Limitations
Back in the day, I think patients placed blind faith in their doctors, taking comfort in the belief that most doctors were acting in their best interest. Today, I am not so sure this level of comfort exists.
The economics of practicing medicine has changed dramatically from health insurance restrictions to increased medical malpractice premiums, as well as the pressure to keep up with the Joneses by acquiring high-tech medical equipment. Bottom line: doctors are not making the kind of money they used to. As a result, many are looking to unnecessary surgeries and testing (on their new equipment, of course!), and are even peddling supplements and other moneymakers.
Am I saying that all doctors are bad? Absolutely not!
Not by a long shot.
What I am saying is this: do not sell yourself short. Remember, YOU are your body is expert, and YOU play an important role in restoring your health. Regardless of what doctor you are seeing, he or she may go home to a restful nights sleep while you are tossing and turning with discomforting mysterious symptoms. Todays doctors are more powerful, more specialized, and perhaps more deaf than those of years gone by.
Find a medical practitioner who will listen to your symptom picture, and work WITH you in developing a treatment plan. Above all, take an active role and a proactive approach at your next doctors visit.
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