Doctors Seen & Fitness Levels
Doctors Seen
The graph on the right shows the total number of doctors seen, by patients. As is shown the most doctors seen was three and quite a significant number actually saw more than 6 doctors. In the survey all I had was more than six so I don't actually know the maximum that any patient visited.
My experience was that my GP eventually passed me onto consultants and the third consultant said I should see a neurologist so the fourth consultant diagnosed what I had correctly (and did so in a couple of days). So I answered 4.
What I would add, was that I saw a large number of doctors from first having symptoms to finally being diagnosed as I saw so many different people when in and out of surgeries and hospitals I couldn't count them, plus they really had no idea what they were looking at and came up with some wonderful conditions, from diahrrea to old age!
The graph on the right shows the total number of doctors seen, by patients. As is shown the most doctors seen was three and quite a significant number actually saw more than 6 doctors. In the survey all I had was more than six so I don't actually know the maximum that any patient visited.
My experience was that my GP eventually passed me onto consultants and the third consultant said I should see a neurologist so the fourth consultant diagnosed what I had correctly (and did so in a couple of days). So I answered 4.
What I would add, was that I saw a large number of doctors from first having symptoms to finally being diagnosed as I saw so many different people when in and out of surgeries and hospitals I couldn't count them, plus they really had no idea what they were looking at and came up with some wonderful conditions, from diahrrea to old age!
These two tables show the number and average across different categories. So the average number of doctors is 3.72 and CIDP people only saw 0.4 more than GBS. The table on the right shows numbers for the US, UK and Rest of the World, where it is interesting that in the UK we saw 0.41 less doctors that in the US.
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Fitness Levels
This is one of the most curios findings of my whole survey. I asked how fit people were prior to getting their illness?
So according to these figures nearly 90% of people were active! OK so there are bound to be differences in how people marked themselves, but even so this is astounding as I expected this to be more or less even split between the four categories, if not swayed slightly towards passive. I regard myself as fairly passive, though was much more active in earlier years.
Below I have sliced the data into other categories to see if there is a difference or maybe some sort of explanation for the variance?
This is one of the most curios findings of my whole survey. I asked how fit people were prior to getting their illness?
So according to these figures nearly 90% of people were active! OK so there are bound to be differences in how people marked themselves, but even so this is astounding as I expected this to be more or less even split between the four categories, if not swayed slightly towards passive. I regard myself as fairly passive, though was much more active in earlier years.
Below I have sliced the data into other categories to see if there is a difference or maybe some sort of explanation for the variance?
Fitness by Illness - shows that 90% of people with GBS thought they were active or fairly active prior to getting GBS. Yet 83% of people with CIDP felt the same - so there is not much difference really?
Also only 3% of both GBS & CIDP sufferers thought they were completely passive. So there doesn't seem to be much of a variation against the illness. |
Fitness by location - people in the UK thought they were more active than the US, with the Rest of the World being the least active.
The levels of fairly active are very similar for all three. Fairly passive has a reasonable variation, with the UK being the lowest. The ROW stated that no-one was passive! As above there is no significant variation |
Fitness by Gender - This time I am looking at numbers rather than percentage, just out of a different comparison method.
Although more women answered this question (283 to 232), the actual number still add up to very similar levels to the previous angles, with 240 out of the 283 women saying they were active and 202 of the 232 men. This equates to 85% of the women and 87% of the men. |
What does this tell us? One possible interpretation is: If you are more active, then you go to different places and require vaccinations........ Another is that the fitter you are the more healthy you should be, therefore the more active your immune system is....... Or people filled it in wrong?
I believe there are too many participants for it to be fill in incorrectly.
This is one area that clearly needs more research! As this is not a coincidence and must help in determining why certain people get GBS or CIDP and why others do not.
I believe there are too many participants for it to be fill in incorrectly.
This is one area that clearly needs more research! As this is not a coincidence and must help in determining why certain people get GBS or CIDP and why others do not.