Leah B.
Humble Servant of All
I just picked my medication for athlete's foot. Everything was fine until I happened to glance at my listed allergies. I am APPALLED. They listed me as allergic to two entire classes of drugs when in fact I am allergic to only one drug in one class and two in another. On top of that, they listed me as allergic to synthetic estrogen and synthetic progesterone. I never even used either thing! Worst of all, they have me listed as allergic to all penicillins. I'm NOT allergic to penicillin. How this got on my record is several years ago I took amoxicillin, and it gave me diarrhea. The PA erroneously reported me as allergic to amoxicillin, but she added that it gave me diarrhea. I didn't think too much of this until now because I'm seeing they have me listed as allergic to multiple penicillin-class drugs when I'm not allergic to ANY. It's DANGEROUS to list people as allergic to drugs they are not allergic to that they could easily need someday. Okay. Then on top of that, I have two absolutely incorrect major diagnoses on record that are both categorized under past medical history and marked as misdiagnoses. The problem there is they even messed up on the correction! A DOCTOR said I was misdiagnosed, but they said it was I who said I was misdiagnosed. [I even have copies of the letter that doctor wrote.] I am appalled at the incompetence and the carelessness. That PA made money off me for doing a lousy job, and now I'm stuck trying to clean up her mess. Between the circumstances surrounding the two misdiagnoses, the horror show I was put through trying to get care for my hands last year, and a few other traumatic experiences around health care, I have lost all faith in the medical system. I'm afraid to go into a hospital with all these wrong things on my record. I also am furious that instead of helping me, these people have yet again stressed me out and made my life even harder. I mean, that is just plain old stupid and incompetent to write the side-effect of diarrhea from amoxicillin down as a drug allergy. I feel I am at the mercy of some seriously unintelligent people who don't belong in the medical field, and I am sick and tired of it. I am not saying all my doctors are like this by any means. I do have some excellent doctors. What I am saying though is that all it takes is a few lousy practitioners, and your life will be made miserable, your health will be made worse, and you could even end up dead. I am further saying some are very careless and thoughtless when writing these medical records. Anyway, please pray in Jesus's name for me to calm down. I'm furious to have to deal with this situation. It should never have happened. Inexcusable. Also please pray in Jesus's name I can get all these mistakes fixed. I am scared because I have a couple friends with bad mistakes in medical records that they say they could not get corrected. How this could be, I don't know. Once again, the one I care about correcting the most is the non-existent penicillin allergy.

Prayer Focus: God, Thank You for loving me. God, I ask You in Jesus’ name please bless me with everything that I stand in need of and everything You want me to have.