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Pretty believable

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Wow, pretty not believable. Scruffy is a good guy, I can tell. I'm sure he has no problem with dating.

Scruffy I appreciate your bluntness. I will go in, but I'm not going to let them put me into some institution.

I'm going to bring someone with me to make sure nothing sketchy will happen.

Thanks, you've been helpful. I bet you are a really good doctor.

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And also, if you are over 18 they can't release the results to your dad unless you consent.

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And also, if you are over 18 they can't release the results to your dad unless you consent.[/quote]

Yea, right. The way my Dad is all in my business and on my phone you don't think he can find out?

I'm going to call my ophthamologist back, I like him. I wish my neuro was like Scruffy, he seems trustworthy and cool. I don't like doctors who ask too many questions.

I'm not at all paranoid. I just want to make sure that my Dad is not tampering with this (though he shouldn't know but you know how that goes). I'm not going to some mental hospital. And, I'm clearly not a danger to anyone.

Everything was fine until I told the neuro that my headaches increase when I'm around cell phones, which is true. When I wouldn't answer some questions, he said that pappiladema has nothing to do with anything psychological. Basically, I think he might be sketchy.

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I can't imagine why you would not get the fricking MRI. Your eyeballs and your brain are not things you want to take lightly. They're not conspiring to throw you into the mental ward, they want to determine the physical causes of your symptoms so they can best treat it

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I've already had the MRI. Today is the day I get the results. But, I am concerned that I'll go in and end up getting hauled off somewhere.

Thealmightsmash suggested on a thread that I might want to see a neurologist over weird dreams (and also I have been having terrible headaches). So, I went to an ophthamologist yesterday because the headaches were in my eyes too. He did a bunch of tests including a vision field and said I have significant pappilladema (not spelled right) and a loss of peripheral vision. From our discussions, it could be something really serious but I don't think so. He sent me to a neurologist who asked a lot of questions that seemed to be the kind a psych would ask so I refused to answer those questions because I think he might be trying to set me up to go to some psychiatric center (the same day referral seemed sketchy to me). The neuros (the original had another guy come in) sent me off for an immediate head MRI (good service if you have good insurance :LOL:) and I'm supposed to go in at 1 to get the results. They close at noon today but are staying open late just for me so I can't complain about the service there.

I'm thinking of cancelling because they seem to be anxious to get me in and I suspect my Dad has found out and they are going to send me to the mental hospital, and I'm not going. I can take passion flower for the headaches. I just called my eye doctor (who is really nice) and he said "you really need to go" (and I didn't know this, but apparently, I think, he's going to come over too).

I don't want to research papilladema because medical searches on the internet will scare you for no reason because you never have the bad stuff that the internet suggests.

Seems to me this is some ruse to get me into some mental ward. Advice? Thanks.

Been listening to all the suggestions - thanks.

Les Ramoneurs de Menhirs - Manez Daou
Rumjacks - Uncle Tommy and Irish Pub Song
Horslips - Dearg Doom
Gaelic Storm - Drink the Night Away
John O'Reilly - Charlie Robison
Saw Doctors - I Useta Love Her
Moving Hearts - Hiroshima Nagasake Russian Roulette

What else ya got?

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No, you're just a nutjob that freaks out about people "aiming their cellphones at you", and thinks the govt is using "chem trails to control people".

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Wow, really? There is nothing nutty about being tired of people aiming their cell phones at you. Zero. Nothing. People do it and it is bullshite. And, chemtrails are a proven fact as you can see them on days when the skies are clear and there is no telling what they are doing when hidden away due to cloud cover.

Don't hijack my thread but the two things you say are "nutty" are facts of life that I see damn near every day.

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So banks don't use rich people's money to loan to us peasants so we can buy our homes, that 30 people just built, that the insurance company and it's employee insure, etc, etc, etc.

Stop thinking of everything in a box...because it's not.

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I know that everything is not in a box. But, the government could set up loan funds if the banks would not.