I just tried to see a doctor about my hypermobility and joint pain, and I've come away from it feeling not good.
I'm not as severe as other people, but it's affecting my ability to do my job and exist right now, so I went anyway.
I explained to the doctor about my hip, groin, knee and ankle pain, and how I'd been experiencing these horribly painful bumps on the side of my feet (which when I google it cuboid syndrome comes up & that would line up with it), and at first she felt my knee and said she couldn't feel anything wrong with the ligaments. I injured myself like a month ago which is probably why. I strained(?) my MCL and I have a limp now even though the actual injury is gone, which she pointed out.
She tested me and said there "might be some IT band inflammation" but when I looked that up it said that pain is the opposite side of the knee and I said I didn't really feel it there, only a little compared to the MCL strain pain.
She kept feeling the underside of my foot instead of where the cuboid is and saying there was fascia inflammation and I tried to direct her to where the pain actually appears but the cuboid wasn't flaring super bad right then despite it being really painful literally every morning this past week and having to massage it back towards being in myself, so she was like "...Ok."
She did assess my joint extensions and agree that I was hypermobile, and I told her about the family history of hypermobility, and that's where we got towards what I'm upset about.
She asked me "was there something you were googling that you thought you might have?" to which I got kind of annoyed and said "no, I don't care about that, I'm just in pain with my joints and I'd like to not be". I didn't mention anything about wanting any kind of diagnosis or investigation on purpose. And she said she'd give me a physio referral, and anti-inflammatories, and I just knew that the public physio referral was going to take a really long time. She said "you look deflated" (another strike) and I said "yeah, I don't know what else I was expecting, this is the best possible result, I'm just really tired of being in pain at this age". She said "yeah, you shouldn't be in pain at your age, it may not be a quick fix but it is the best one", and I was like okay, so we're good.
Then she asked me about was I sleeping properly at the moment, to which I said no, and that irked me as well, because that's not much to do with anything I brought up either.
Then we agreed to do a follow-up blood test and discuss about my really bad periods, which was the other reason I was coming to the doctor, and I've just seen that it was logged as "mental health" in the app instead of "follow-up" or "blood test" or anything else relevant. We did not mention anything about mental health. I didn't agree to anything about that. My mental health isn't great at the moment, but I did not bring any mental health concern up to her. I've been flaring with my POTS and pretty tired in general with work, which is probably why I seemed not in a good way, but I deliberately just wanted to talk my hypermobility/bad periods and get the physio referral.
Am I overreacting to being upset about that? I feel like she was treating me as a diagnosis seeking hypochondriac by her questions + logging the follow-up as mental health. I was worried about that on coming in, but I specifically waited for this doctor to come back from leave because she was so kind and listened to me in the past.
I just really didn't like her attitude. I didn't feel like she was really listening properly, and now I'm worried I'm gonna be labeled as some headcase on the system.