Do You Avoid Going To The Doctor.....

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...because it means upsetting your routine??

I was sick recently, with quite weird symptoms. I probably should have gone to the doctor. Ok, I have sort of a negativity about doctors anyway, due to some bad experiences, so that´s one thing. But I realized that another reason I didn´t want to go was because I didn´t want to have to upset my routine, and the stuff I had planned to do.

This reminded me of another incident, several years back:

I was having strange symptoms while teaching...I knew I was not quite well, but due to some odd reason- like rigid thinking, extreme responsibility, or fear (i.e. denial)- I felt compelled to finish my class. Before I was able to finish, I collapsed onto the floor, at which point I finally told my students that I needed a doctor. I was rushed to the hospital, and told I needed an emergency operation. I told them it was an inconvenient time for me (I had projects that I felt compelled to finish, and I also didn´t want to change my routine suddenly), so I asked if I could re-schedule. (I felt better by that time). But they told me I needed to stay in the hospital that night and have the operation the next day, or else I might die. At which point I freaked out that I didn´t have my stuff with me; I wanted to be in my own apartment with my things. I hated the fact that it was so spur of the moment, and I couldn´t plan.

Is anyone else like this???

Being sick upsets my routine just by itself. So going to the doctor doesn't make it any worse.

Yes, I'm like this.

What's even worse is that when I'm really sick it's very hard for me to leave my comfort zone (home), I overload very easily...too many questions, a long wait in a crowded waiting room, or an exam where they need alot of testing done and they are poking or prodding at me, and I'm bolting for the door. I pretty much have to be sick to the point that I'm almost incapacitated.

I've also had some bad experiences in the past and that doesn't help matters either.

I am like this too. I dislike the maze of the clinic, I had transportation to the clinic before and now I don't. I didn't like my doctor once I got there and after they had me come back three times because they couldn't get the blood out of my tiny veins (and I had two black and blue hemotomas where they poked me and it bled inside of me) I called it off.

if I can't get well on my own, well, then I don't get well.

Merle

I only make appointments with doctors months away at a time, that way I'm prepared. I would never go to a doctor right away.

Have always avoided the doctors and even with my children only ever go if really have to, as ito me its never a matter of a quick trip, more like planning a day out and like to make sure research all possibles and ready for all unexpected...

only because I'm terrified of them.

last time my mother tried to schedule me an appointment I was in hysterics and my mother had to cancel. She's trying to get me to go and considering sedating me =/

If the appointment is found to break routine am will refuse to accept seeing them,do not understand time so one thing is good in that will never have to deal with wanting things done at exact times but it's a major part of life in other ways.
Am do not have to go to the local doctors centre because of how severe own sensory problems are with accessing the centre,the behaviors they cause and how difficult it is to get there with out meltdowns,get home visits instead,its easier to plan for,some staff think should not have home visits but then they also think housebound causing sensory problems are another term for laziness,yet they have amazing sympathy for a wheel chair using resident who is fully able to access everything.

also,if have not been given enough warning that an appointment is due,will end up in meltdown,so most staff make sure am know at least a week before and get told about it several times in each day to make sure get used to it.
it isnt that have got a problem with the doctors [always see either the woman or man] as they're the nicest most understanding patient doctors anyone could ever have.

I am currently avoiding the doctor for other reasons, as I know I need treatment for something that won't kill me, and might go away on its own. But I want the treatment and am not sure how I will handle the treatment, as it is excruciatingly painful (no, my sensory issues don't dull pain, they amplify it)... For an NT it would not be that bad, and when I had a similar but less painful version of the same treatment, it was still very painful, and I only just avoided screaming in pain...

I detest apts, because of all the above. Having to sit through and dental/medical exam or even a hairdresser appointment gives me PA's. I avoid them at all costs and my husband and I have had arguments about this, because I too hate to even take my daughter or others.

I avoid doctors because they always make smalltalk.

Doctor: So how are you?
Me: ... What the hell? If I'm here, then obviously, I'm not well. What the hell?

And I can't stand being around people and their offices always smell so godawful... so unless I'm pretty sure I'm dying, I just don't go.

I go to doctors only if it really necessary, but I uncertain that is an Aspie-trail: I remember very well that when I was younger men normally did not go to the doctor except in real emergency cases or when they can't any longer ignore symptoms. Being ill just did not fit into the role-model.

If I feel so bad that I'm concerned about my own health, then "I might" go to the doctor. I definitely don't like it. I feel that I'm the best doctor for myself. I feel worse when going to doctors because they always assume that one's sick.

If I hurt myself badly, then I go to the doctors right away, basically, because then I'm powerless to do anything about it myself.

If I can stay upright and I'm not about to kill myself right that second, I won't go to the doctor, because I can't break out of my routine to be able to do so(I can go to my appointments with my psychiatrist even though they aren't part of my normal routine, because they are booked months in advance).
I'm still alive.

I hate going to the doctor... they will give me nasty medicine which gives me rashes or giddiness.

That's what I thought as well. When I plan to do stuff on a certain day, if I'm ill that day I won't get anything done because I'll be sleeping most of the day and feel too ill to focus when I'm awake.
Although I don't have a routine, so this kind of stuff isn't a problem for me.

MizLiz - I've never had a doctor ask me that, although when I was in the school medical room someone asked me that. I just glared at him. I'm not nice when I'm ill.