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I'd want to know even if I knew I wouldn't get treatment. I would live my final years for what was important.
I'd want to know if I would get treatment. The sooner the treatment can be started, the better the outcome.
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If you shop around long enough, I'm sure you could eventually find a doctor who won't bother to order tests that are warranted by your symptoms and your other tests. Good luck with your head-in-the-sand philosophy! Either get the scan or just refuse it. But don't blame your doctor for ordering it.
Plus every time I go to the dr and finds something else she wants to test me on.
Why not get a different doctor, immediately? And get the CT test, but not all the tests you don't really need. The results of the CT test will show that you don't have cancer. And that will let you stop worrying about it. Which will make you feel better. And feeling better is what doctors are for.
I'd want to know if I would get treatment. The sooner the treatment can be started, the better the outcome.
That's a key issue with cancer treatment. People who get treated for years and die anyway, it's often because they didn't start the treatment soon enough. The sooner the treatment starts, the more likely it will be successful sooner.
An intelligent doctor will fire a patient, and do no more treatment when they figure the patients life is at stake if they do not get the treatment needed. They do this to protect themselves from law suits brought by families left behind when you die, blaming the doctor for not treating you to save your life. By firing you as a patient stating the reason you refuse the needed tests and treatment, they protect themselves from lawsuits, and their insurance companies insist on it.
Patients may be stupid and refuse tests and treatments, but Doctors are not stupid. If you don't want to save your life, fire you as a patient is their only solution to the problem.
Why have they recommended the test? Talk to them and tell them about your concerns.It's not likely they will stop treating you for delaying (or refusing) a test.
As for blood work, how long have you had thyroid problems and are they controlled through your meds? Usually when my meds are adjusted they want blood work within 3 months to make sure everything is adjusting correctly. After that, I can go longer.
I agree with the bolded...Talk to them.
But, disagree with the underlined above. It is more likely that they cannot treat you if you do not follow medical advice. If they need to rule out things and you don't allow it, how can they proceed?
Are you avoiding these tests out of fear? Have you you tubed a CT scan to see what it entails, maybe you are afraid for nothing.
Refusing or becoming non-compliant medically will be a red flag for any future Dr. imo.
That's a key issue with cancer treatment. People who get treated for years and die anyway, it's often because they didn't start the treatment soon enough. The sooner the treatment starts, the more likely it will be successful sooner.
Actually, quite often the "treatment" kills them. A case of the cure being worse than the disease! I would not test NOT because I was afraid of knowing -- in fact, I WOULD, just to have time to do everything on my bucket list; the diagnosis kind of gives you carte blanche -- but because I wouldn't carry on with the next test and next test and living at the doctor's and having poison injected into my veins and being zapped with radiation and spending the rest of my time so sick I'd wish I were dead. We're all "terminal." It's just a matter of how you choose to spend what time you have. I believe in "quality over quantity." And anyone should have the right to decide how to spend one's (remaining) life without being deprived of "quality of life" medical care when one chooses to have it.
Causes the death of muscle tissue and, evidence increasing supports, dementia. Don't even get me started on SSRIs.
I've taken statins ( 20 mg Simvastatin daily) for at least 10 years, and have had none of those side effects. I also exercise daily and my muscles are just fine. And dementia? Don't think so. Not with my level of both physical and mental activity.
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