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Dr Pauline Ho 2022-05-30 Person 1 5 0

My first consultation with this doctor was great and she gave me some very good advice about my EDS (hydrotherapy, exercise tailored to me, bracing, do my own research etc). The following appointments, she turned all that advice on its head and gave me new advice that was downright dangerous. Osteoporosis at 26 is now perfectly normal, my problems with EDS are ‘my fault’ — despite occurring most prominently in tandem with the progesterone rise before a period (should I be sorry for being a woman??) — and, in writing, she stated hydrotherapy was ‘the very, very worst thing for me’ (I had already found out it was fantastic). She told me to go to ‘any physiotherapist’ and to work a ‘one size fits all’ program at the gym. I did - half a dozen new joints that had never bothered me before became a problem, two of which are now some of my worst affected joints. I’ve never known such a bizarre and ridiculous u-turn on great advice before... and it makes me wonder why it happened. Is she rushed? Does she just throw out any old advice? Does she give the slightest care about her patients after that initial assessment? Was it me; that my agreeable attitude allowed her to think she could advise anything and I’d thank her for it? I took her original advice — do your research — and it’s ironic that the very same doctor is now the most dangerous and untrustworthy one for me to go to. Obviously, I stopped going back. I’m stuck with the results of her advice for life now and doing things my own way is safer.