hi- boy i can understand how you feel....i had an xray here in fl in oct, and took it to my orthopod doc for her to look at.
now i saw on this site a drawing of what the sacroillitis joint looks like when it is fused, the simplistic rendering drawing
i look at my own xray and compare it to the one i had done in oct, and my left SI jpoint was fused but no radiologist said anytihng about it in his report although it was clear to my UNTRAINED eye when i compared it to the drawing on this board. that is how simple it was for me to figure it out.
now i take my xrays and trot over to my orthopod she glances up at it towards the lights and puts it down and says to me you need shots in your back ( epidurals)and makes no mention of the fused SI join to me on the left side.
now i get another xray taken last week for my rhuemy to look at, although i brought in my oct xray that he threw up in the air to look at and makes no mention of what i clearly see to the naked eye trained or not.
he says nothing to me and orders a new set of xrays which were taken last week.
what? i dont get it. why does he need new xrays when the ones from oct show clearly the difference between the two SI joint on either side?
i think they churn people for money down here in fl. the stories i could tell you would make your hair stand on end.
the doctors are SO GOSH DARN BAD.
and why didnt that radiologist note the sacroillitis on the oct xray? did he need an engraved prescription to do this? couldnt he have noted it as an incidential?
of course he could have if he knew what he was doing.
i am beginning to think i know almost as much as these so-called doctors here, i am sorry, i dont mean to sound so awfully negative towards doctors and know they are only human (although some think they know it all)
i am just so bothered by it all. the lack of a reality and a real caring or understanding is very pervasive here in florida...sorry for my rant it was not directed towards you are a doctor....but as a fellow man who is battling this same illness that i have
