The first doctor I went to actually ignored me and sent in a nurse that didn’t speak English well enough to understand me, then sent me for a blood test I actually wasn’t able to take at the time they sent me, nor did that lab actually do those tests. I just walked out and never came back, got better health insurance since I never even really went to the doctor before, and went to a much nicer place. That lady told me that based on my CBC and lipid panel being good, it was probably all in my head and I should go see a psychiatrist for bipolar based on—and I shit you not—the fact that I said I used to be pretty energetic but now feel tired all the time. I am the calmest person anyone has usually met. I had also told her I needed to eat really large amounts of salt or I felt a lot worse and would get marks on my skin, and she said that couldn’t possibly help anything or be true, so I should stop that immediately. I’d paid a lot of money to go there so I begrudgingly took her advice despite it going poorly in the past, then went to the ER twice shortly after because the reason I needed all that salt was apparently my potassium was too high and cortisol too low. When I stopped that, I started having migraines everywhere and couldn’t stop passing out. Actually split my neck open on the second time and had to go in for stitches while spewing blood all over the place. I was calm then too as everyone freaked out all around me.

I brought that up with this same doc—who I’m going to call Giant Kunt—and she denied it could have been from lowering my sodium intake despite me having more again immediately ceasing my passing out and migraines. I even told her what the ER guy said—who I ended up knowing from my gym—and she just discounted it. I did that song and dance with different folks for almost a year. I’d ask for a testosterone test on day one since this all started after I came off finasteride and when I finally did get one, what do you know, I came back low, just like I thought I would on day one of talking to her.

I had looked her up to leave a bad review, and found some kind of crowdfunding thing for her because she claimed someone she subleased her place to was trying to steal it from her and she needed legal fees to avoid being kicked out. Ended up finding an opposing crowdfunding page for the person on the other end of that also asking for legal fee help. I made it rain on the other lady. Giant Kunt ended up getting kicked out and left the place I had been going to.

Love my docs now but holy crap did I have some bad experiences. If you find a doc you like, lock them down and send them birthday cards and Christmas gifts.