The lung thing doesn't strike me at all weird - I don't quite get that, but I do get some similar stuff that is weird by allopathic standards, but that keeps getting mentioned in my herbalism classes, so I go "Oh, *duh*".
I actually remembered to ask the pulmonologist I saw yesterday about the lung thing, and he was utterly unsurprised. He said that any infection in the sinuses affects the large airways in the lungs pretty much instantly and that it's perfectly normal for someone who's used to paying attention to what their lungs are doing to notice that first.
Which kind of underlines my determination not to see the particular doctor who didn't believe me on walk-in ever again. He's not my primary care doctor. His specialty is bone and joint injuries. He just covers a lot of walk-in time because he's willing to work lots of overtime and because the stuff he's best at tends not to easily delayed for a day or four while someone waits for an appointment. (There are several other reasons I don't want to see him again. This was just the final straw because, if he'd started me on preventative measures when I came in asking for them, I might have avoided several weeks of severe illness.)
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Date: 2009-01-13 06:16 pm (UTC)I actually remembered to ask the pulmonologist I saw yesterday about the lung thing, and he was utterly unsurprised. He said that any infection in the sinuses affects the large airways in the lungs pretty much instantly and that it's perfectly normal for someone who's used to paying attention to what their lungs are doing to notice that first.
Which kind of underlines my determination not to see the particular doctor who didn't believe me on walk-in ever again. He's not my primary care doctor. His specialty is bone and joint injuries. He just covers a lot of walk-in time because he's willing to work lots of overtime and because the stuff he's best at tends not to easily delayed for a day or four while someone waits for an appointment. (There are several other reasons I don't want to see him again. This was just the final straw because, if he'd started me on preventative measures when I came in asking for them, I might have avoided several weeks of severe illness.)