Neurosurgeon

I am a 52 year old female who has been going through a lot of medical problems. I had an event happen to me roughly 1 month ago. I called my primary care doctor and they put in a referral to a neurosurgeon.

I have severe cervical spine issues as well.

I was sitting in my car with my head tilted down reading. All of a sudden, I tried to swallow. No food, no drink. Just a swallow. I physically could not do it. Its like my brain wasn't signaling to my throat to swallow. I would eventually swallow but it was like not a full swallow and it was very delayed. My arms and one of my legs was going numb. I was lightheaded and dizzy. This happened for about 8 hours before I was able to swallow normally. It scared the bonkers out of me. It was absolutely terrifying.

The neurosurgeon was very arrogant and rude. I was in his office maybe 5 minutes. He said im seeing the wrong doctor. I told him that my primary care had made the referral. He proceeded to tell me that a brain MRI will not show past strokes. He also told me that cervical spine issues cannot cause what happened to me.

I told this doctor that I want an MRI because what happened to me was something and that it wasn't normal. He refused to order the MRI. Then told me if it ever happens again to go to rhe emergency room because it could be a brainstem stroke.

Wow. Just wow. See he acknowledged that a brain stem stroke could have caused it, but refused to do an MRI.

Then...this one really got me. He said..."you've not had a stroke, because you look fine"

That visit was one of the biggest cases of gas lightning I've ever witnessed.