| Well, my son is only 3, but I was having problems with him pulling a
fit at the doctors office. He, like yours, would not even get on the
scale and acted like they were torturing him when they tried to check
his ears or measure his length.
I finally decided that it was my husband's turn to make doctor visits
with him. He does fine for everyone else. Actually, he had a
3 yr well-check this morning. My mother-in-law took him and he was
great. Didn't even cry for the shot (just told his Nana quietly, "she
hurt me"...didn't even say "ouch").
I don't know if you've ever tried letting someone else take him, but it
sure has worked for me. I did have to bring him recently for an ear
infection and he was OK with me... so maybe it was just a phase.
Maybe don't give him so much warning... and sometimes bribery can work
against you. He may be thinking, hmmmm - if they have to give me
things to get me to go, maybe it's worse than I think -- or something
to that effect.
Hopefully he'll get past this. I know how frustrating and embarrassing
(at least that is how I felt) it can be.
julie
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| My son, Patrick, just had his 5-year check up as well. We left the
office still needing half of what we went for. His doctor is a fine man,
very friendly. Outside the office, Patrick speaks very favorably of
"his" doctor. In the waiting room he is a gem, quietly playing with
the broken toys and sharing them with the other children.
But once we got in the exam room, he shut down completely.
The nurse talked him into getting his height and weight measured, but
it took some doing. For the doctor, we had to hold him down just to
get his ears examined. He began crying, kicking, screaming and
pitching one of the biggest public fits of his life. I was shocked,
embarrassed and very annoyed. The doctor was none-too-happy, either.
After talking to Patrick about the episode (over a period of about two
weeks) I finally got to the root of his problem. Shots. It seems that
the bigger kids at his day-care facility got wind that Patrick (and
others in the K-4 class) would be going to get their K-5 physicals in
the next couple of weeks and they started teasing them pretty heavily.
Most of the teasing was about getting shots. Patrick has now developed
a very deep fear of shots and he thinks that if the doctor finds
anything wrong with him, he'll just have to get more and bigger shots.
His way of dealing with it is to not let the doctor look. If he
doesn't look, he can't find anything wrong and, therefore, no shots.
We haven't solved his problem yet, but we're on the way.
Rick
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