“He was scheduling knee surgery ‘just to look around’" I know enough now, that when confronted by a red flag like this, I head for the exit. Similarly, when a practitioner merely throws out an OA diagnosis, my guard goes up.

Some (many?) physicians don’t like to admit they don’t know something, even to the point of guessing the answer and leaving you to live with the consequences. When someone treating me projects this attitude, it’s their swan song.

I’ve just finished a couple projects and will be more a presence here — not with easy answers but with difficult questions.

sorry to hear about your experience @A MyPsoriasisTeam Member I feel what you describe is the rule, not the exception. I hope the adalimumbab kicks in. At what point would you try something else?
I was referred to an orthopedist who saw me for years but never suggested arthritis other than osteo....because I was in my 40s! He was scheduling knee surgery "just to look around" because he had no answers but admitted there wasn't much to do surgery-wise! I protested and asked about the possibility of arthritis, he thought for a moment and said "good idea"
I think he was more relieved to punt me to the next doctor and not deal with it.
Doctors can be very helpful, but I also think they can be terrible! Egos, lack of experience, and apathy all lead to misdiagnoses, unnecessary pain and suffering. So few actually listen to the patient and often their initial response is dismissal. How many times have all of us been told to take a Tylenol and rest?
Sorry...just had to vent for a minute

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I'm sorry that sounds confusing

@A MyPsoriasisTeam Member 》The subscribe thing is just for connecting with your email address, like a Google Gmail address usually. But ChatGPT is free to subscribe to and then there's also the paid plans.

If you're just a casual user, there's no reason to pay for a subscription plan, like if you just wanted to follow up with that query I sent you. The only real difference between the paid and free plans is that the free plan will "throttle" your usage after awhile. But it's not a severe throttle. After something like 5 questions in a row to ask ChatGPT, it will time you out for 2 to 3 hours. Then you go back and do it again. But with a paid plan there is no throttling.

I've been using ChatGPT since it first launched in 2022 and used only the free plan for the first two years. But I'm a paying customer now...

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? what is PSA