Re: Cholesteatoma or Hypochondria - Change Doctors

[Guest guest]

Hi Dawn

I must say that I feel it is the military doctors who failed me - perhaps,

because they just didn't *see* enough cholesteatomas to know what one was

but also because they just don't expect to see something so serious in a

serving member of the Forces, so don't really look as hard as they could -

and should - have looked.

I would strongly recommend that you find a specialist around your parents'

home area, so that you don't need to change doctors every 2 or 3 years. I

was medically downgraded to a level unacceptable to those who grant further

service, and so my contract was not extended; once I got home from the RAF

my problems were taken seriously and finally were even diagnosed! :-)

Take care, be well :-)

Kazz

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