Long post, I apologize. TL;DR at the bottom
I recently got back on health insurance after several years of never being seen anywhere but the ER. So I decided to start the process of getting some help with a few concerns I have.
I called my local FP and asked to set up an appointment, but it had been so long that I needed to make a "New Patient" appointment, and there was only one Dr taking new patients, so I set it up.
[Note: I manage a dispensary. This will be important later.]
Day of the appointment, I went in, filled out the paperwork, and sat down with the Dr. She asked me what I was there for, and I said my main two concerns are that I believe I have Sleep Apnea and I'd like to see about treatment for my ADHD. Here's how the conversation went from there:
Dr: exaggerated wink "You know, some weight loss would help with the snoring."
Me: ".....yes, but also I've had this issue since long before I was fat."
Dr: "Well, I'd like you to lose some weight anyway. I'll set you up with a sleep study, but you should definitely lose at least 10 lbs to help with your elevated blood pressure."
Me: ".....my bp was 133/88, I didn't think that was insanely high."
Dr: "And you say you think you have ADHD?"
Me: "No, I think I was diagnosed with ADHD when I was 11 years old, I haven't been medicated for it in a little over a decade, and I still experience the symptoms, many of which greatly affect my daily life."
Dr: "Describe what you experience for symptoms."
Me: "I forget to do even obvious things like use the bathroom and eat. If I'm not looking directly at something I will forget it exists, which leads to me throwing a LOT of leftovers away, I can't focus on things that I'm not actively hyperfixated on, and I struggle with impulse control."
Dr: "So, do you use cannabis daily?"
So I got her to set up a sleep study for the Apnea, and she set up a psych eval for me to be re-tested for ADHD, but the whole time I felt like she had made snap judgements of me and it affected the care (or lack of care) that I received. She decided that I'm just a fat stoner who doesn't actually need the help that he's asking for, and as a result I now have to wait until mid-July to get the ADHD evaluation done, even though I was already diagnosed TWENTY-THREE YEARS AGO.
TL;RR - Dr treated me like I was lying about my ADHD diagnosis from two decades ago, and fat shamed me over possible sleep apnea and a BP of 133/88.
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