So, DD and I went to see her new allergy dr today. We relocated from Texas to Kansas. The first one she saw was CRAZY. He put her on 5 new meds at once and she was sick for a solid month. One of the meds was Diflucan....one a day for 27 days! And Prednisone for two weeks, and switched Zyrtec to Claritin and Zpack x 2 packs, and Dymista. She had a reaction to the Diflucan (from being on it for 27 days, I'm sure). TWITCHING. Her legs, hands, etc. ER says it was an acute reaction to the drug. They basically said the allergy dr was crazy for putting her on it for that long. Evidentially, that is used for fungal lung diseases...which she did not have. So, a month later, she still has residual twitching in right leg.
Today on to a new dr. I should mention we live near Wichita which has a huge shortage of Allergy drs.
There are literally 4-one is the crazy one I mentioned and the other 3 are in the same office. I was thrilled to get an appt. due to a cancellation, today. The guy was nice enough..to begin with. He began to question EVERYTHING we said, right down to a UTI that DD had 3 months ago...really? He questioned and rolled his eyes about when DD had her tonsils and adenoids out. We let all of it go, we just did. So, he asked WHY we thought she had a peanut allergy, etc. DD is 19. We have dealt with this since age 18 months (asthma started at age 2). We gave him the name of her drs and offered to send him the records. He also had the records from the crazy dr across town...who RAST tested her for peanuts and she was off the charts. He insisted on RAST testing her again. I don't iknow why.
So, he gave us some suggestions on things to change and before he left, I asked him to please fill out DD's disability forms for college (this is her sophomore year). He literally laughed out loud and said "what disability?" I calmly stated "her asthma and life threatening peanut allergy" He said those were not disabilities-he was incredulous. I handed him the forms that the college in Texas had gotten filled out from DD's TX dr. He stated "look, she has not had an anaphylactic reaction for 17 years, there is not a thing wrong with her". "She doesn't need anything "special". I began to explain that she had a Peanut Free sign on her classroom doors at college...he interrupted me and said "absolutely not!". He said allergens are never airborne and that if someone wanted to eat a peanut butter sandwich in class next to DD, that person should have that right and that DD would be fine. DD then started to tear up.
He marched out of the room and DD, of course, was crying by then. She said"doesn't he know about cross contamination, etc?" "What if that person eating a sandwich tried to hand me a paper after they ate a sandwich?". DD did have a reaction walking past a vat of open peanuts next to a display of bananas at age 2.5. The dr said PROVE IT. Excuse me but WTH?
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We left in shock and I texted my husband who told me to get up and leave (we were already in the car).
The nearest other Allergy DRs are 2.5 hours away and guess what? I will drive there. I cannot believe this happened in this day and age, I just cannot.
I really needed to rant and didn't know where else to go.
Should I send him some damned printouts of the disability laws?? I am just dumbfounded.