There is such a pressure to never question what a doctor says or to listen to what they say. You go around and they have all this knowledge and authority in our society as knowing best. So when they tell you to try this, or not to worry you want to believe them because I think, in a lot of Western culture, that is what is advised. Yet there are so many problems with this.
First, blindly following authority is pretty problematic. Second, doctors can be wrong and a condition can have tons of symptoms, that doesn’t mean they’re a bad doctor, it means that the body is a tricky mischievous thing. I still don’t know why I have had a serious of rashes and allergic reactions to burns I get from pans and cooking things (despite visiting so many doctors and getting prescribed everything under the sun and being told I am allergic to x,y,z). At first that made me say, no never again. But that is too final and too simple. Being a doctor and making a prescription or a diagnosis is not an exact science (irony right?), but there is practice and wisdom and things can present themselves differently. Thirdly, I think we tend to ignore our own body wisdom. The wisdom we get from listening and living in our bodies 24/7. We should never totally ignore that little voice inside our head because it is important and worth listening to. We shouldn’t say, no little voice the doctor said it’s not. We should remember that there are somethings that are body is right about and the doctor may not realize it yet.
It is hard to stand up against a doctor and say “No do it again” or “I don’t think so” or “I don’t think that is right for me”, but it’s important to stand up for yourself, to be your best advocate, to realize they are fallible people too, and to know you can always try to seek another opinion. We need to treat ourselves with the same protection we treat our best friend.