Name: Spreading the Feast Gathering
Start: 2025-07-11T00:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-07-12T23:59:59-05:00
Location: LaGrange, KY

Tagged: checkups, doctor visits, vaccinations, vaccines, wellness visits

This topic has 19 replies, 14 voices, and was last updated 13 years, 10 months ago by TracyM.

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July 31, 2011 at 7:13 pm
joannarammell
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I have not read all the posts. Sorry, I just don’t have time. Today is my 4y/o’s birthday and three of the babes are sick, including him.
I just wanted to pop in and say…
#1 We don’t do well visits–find it a waste of time and money. We see the doctor often enough for illnesses, and I keep a list of questions to ask, if I have any. My doctor trusts me, because she has seen that I have tried to educate myself and have taken responsibility for our health…I don’t expect her to fix it all with a pill, we don’t go in for every little thing, we handle what we can at home naturally etc. That said, we still see her plenty often to skip those well visits.
#2 We do not vaccinate. My daughter had some of the vaccines until about 18mo…but slower. And her immune system has been way more compromised than my three boys…who have never had the first shot. I sign a paper, and trust God that he will take care of us as we live out this conviction.
#3 My reasons for not vaccinating are wide and varied. My friend’s epileptic daughter (MMR on top of undiagnosed beginning Rotovirus) and my other friend (pediatric nurse who told me what she saw and learned about children in ‘homes’ who were documented cases of vaccine uh-ohs) has some to do with it. Or my getting re-vaccinated with EVERYTHING again in basic training…and immediately getting sick…and then coming down suddenly with several incurable life-long immune related illnesses! My own immune compromised state makes me protective of my children’s immune systems. And it is very true that my daughter has had SO many problems compared to my boys. Oh, and my husband is an orthotist…and has worked directly with patients who have polio as a result of the vaccine.
#4 I do my best to trust GOD with this. It is a challenge as I have gotten plenty of lectures from docs, friends, and well-meaning in your face relatives. But, this is the path that prayer, conviction, research, and faith has led us. May I trust the Lord to walk with me if the unthinkable happens, and I lose a child or if my child is hurt because of this.
Gotta run,
baby crying,
HTH
jo
July 31, 2011 at 7:13 pm
tandc93
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Thanks, Linda. And I do agree with you on many points. I think doctors are more likely to listen to patients “educating” them when it is done in the right way. My own husband is an example!! He use to think all chiropractors were nuts. Now he swears by it…thanks to me going to one after crawling around on the floor for a week after child #2 with my sciatic nerve! We also avoided tubes on child #2 by him listening and allowing me to switch him to soy milk. (what’s with child #2?)
Yes, drug companies do push samples, but to some PATIENTS those samples are life savers….and a good doctor will not allow that to cloud his judgement on what to use (although in many cases it is ok to use the one with samples over others if it means the patient will take it vs one with little advantage that they’d have to pay for).
Just another thought on being kind, sympathetic, and patient with your doctor–how do we each feel when our children complain all day? They listen to complaints from people who don’t feel well all day every day. Yes, that’s their job and they get paid to do it, but it is hard to listen to complaints all day without becoming frazzled.
I’m sorry if I came across strong, just near and dear to my life.
July 31, 2011 at 8:15 pm
missingtheshire
Member
I understand very well what you are saying tandc93 – a doctors life cannot be an easy one and yes for some low income or non insured patients samples are wonderful. When my daughter last went to her doctor because she had an ovarian cyst burst, she gave her a sample of birth control pills to take – my daughter said she understood that those pills can help in cases of some people who get recurring cysts, but she had no desire to take medication until she knew that is was recurring – she also told her she was not sexually active, had no desire to be so until she was married and birth control pills were not something she wanted to put into her body at 18 years old. Those were her choices and I am glad she was wise and said no. That was not a case of us not being able to afford medicine, it was a gyn who assumed that my daughter would be happy on BC pills. She was not too impressed when my daughter said no, we have since found a much better gyn. I think given time doctors will embrace more holistic medicine, things run slow and it takes time. Arizona I believe and Seattle have wonderful integrated medicine sites, and now in cancer center aromatherapy has been found to be beneficial…we all need to be advocates for our health and that of our children, but we should not write off allopathic medicine completely – if I had done that my daughter would likely no longer be here, and I would never risk that. Linda
July 31, 2011 at 9:29 pm
Misty
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I didn’t read anyone’s posts so sorry if the same:
we do NOT go to well checks. I have not seen a dr excpet for my pregnancies and ER visits. That said it’s been years. On paper if askecd for dr. I write call 911. We do not have a primary physican.
We do Give Kids a Smile in Feb (which is a free service) so that’s once a year. And they do the fillings if they have time, selants and other work again if time allows.
As for me and my dh & dentists we go to a local community college who does a full exam for 35 a piece.

August 1, 2011 at 1:05 am
TracyM
Member
I don’t have a pediatrician, just a family dr. that sees all of us as needed when we’re sick or doing a sports physical required to participate, etc. And with 6 of us, that’s often enough, why bother with well checks? lol
I did do the well-baby checks when they were little to keep track of growth, etc. but I turned down some vaccines, and did some others. My dr. was fine with that and gave us no grief whatsoever. I also have a daughter with an autoimmune issue that he first diagnosed so he understands my hesitation on just filling my kids up with drugs that may or may not help. So I’ve weighed each vaccine and decided to go ahead with it or not (but don’t ask me which ones because right now I couldn’t remember to save my life! LOL) My ob/gyn is o.k. with it too–she’s reminded me several time about the flu shot around that time of year and I’m a “high risk” case that techinically should get one. But so far I’ve resisted. her Response is something like “O.k., you know I have to remind you and recommend it, especially in your case.” lol She gives me a bad time about it, but in a light-hearted way.