Bf refuses to call his doctor for chronic pain..what should I do?
I’m going to start with the first instance of this, because this is the second time this has happened. We’ve been together for almost 3 years.
First instance-
Since we got together, he always would get severe pains in his wrist. He lifts heavy stuff constantly at work, and has played baseball and softball for years (pitching with that hand), so it’s not like it was a random thing. It was progressively getting worse, and after him constantly complaining about it for months, I started telling him he needed to call his doctor. He kept blowing it off and not calling for months and months..it took me almost 2 years to finally convince him to call his doctor. I got so frustrated with him complaining (yet doing nothing about it) that I almost broke up with him. We had a long serious talk about him needing to take care of himself and that’s when he finally gave in. He had nerve testing done and found out it was ‘cubital tunnel’ which is like carpal tunnel, but on the other side of your hand/wrist. He finally had the corrective surgery about 2 months ago and is almost fully recovered.
Second instance-
For like 6 months now (starting when he was going through testing for his wrist), he has been complaining about neck pain that has been getting worse and worse. He gets monthly massages that don’t help. He stretches, uses heat and ice, none of it helps. I’ve been telling him to tell his doctor over and over again for the last 3-4 months. I’m not nice about it because we’ve been through this before. Every time he complains about it now I give him no sympathy, I just firmly tell him to call his doctor. It’s the same thing happening again. He won’t call. He’s been in there often for follow ups from his wrist surgery..he won’t mention it. I’m so fucking sick of this. I don’t want to hear it anymore.
What am I supposed to do? I love him to death and we don’t really have any other problems. How am I supposed to convince him to go to his doctor? When we had the talk about his wrist before he said he’s more worried about taking care of us (me and his son(10) from a previous relationship). I told him “how am I supposed to trust you to take care of us when you don’t even know how to take care of yourself??”. Like really the next time he complains about his neck I really am going to have to resist the urge to slap him 🙄🙄.
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