When im at the doctors office and the
hospital I feel safe and happy, anyone
else actually like going to the doctors, I
herd most people with anxiety are afraid
to go to the doctors. And one more
thing, "anixiety" and "hypochondria" are
two diffrent things right?
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Jamesab
Experienced User , Rather EHEALTHy
Joined: 09 Jul 2005 Posts: 101 Location: UK
Posted: 07-15-05 12:02pm
I feel the same way, because if anything
happens to you while you are in hospital,
it can be sorted and diagnosed very
quickly.
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dianad
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 15 Jul 2005 Posts: 17 Location: CT, USA
Doctors Posted: 07-15-05 12:41pm
What would you do if they actually found
something wrong with you?
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mary70
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 11 Jul 2005 Posts: 46 Location: Canada
Posted: 07-15-05 12:41pm
Me, me!! I am exactly like that. I
always have these symptoms of being sick
and I usually make a doctors appointment
so she can check for cancer (that's what I
usually think it is and my biggest fear).
As soon as I get there and am waiting in
the waiting room I usually forget about
all the symptoms I have and start feeling
normal. When I get home, all my symptoms
return. Really weird. I think it's
true what they say, anxiety is all in my
head. I think my mind really does play
tricks on me...
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Jamesab
Experienced User , Rather EHEALTHy
Joined: 09 Jul 2005 Posts: 101 Location: UK
Posted: 07-15-05 13:11pm
Yep, im exactly like that, my symptoms do
go away and my biggest fear at the moment
is having a blood clot or an aneurysm, or
both. Although when I was admitted to
hospital a few months back, I did have a
massive headache (again) for ages. What
worries nme the most is that the headache
seems to be in the same area all of the
time, all the pains, and those 'weird'
feelings, all in the same place.
Now what would I do if they found
something wrong with me...?
Well first I would sue all of the doctors
that I have seen that have told me that I
have anxiety, how unprofessional would
that make them look...
James
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dianad
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 15 Jul 2005 Posts: 17 Location: CT, USA
to Do Posted: 07-15-05 13:22pm
Okay you sew them. Now how do you feel?
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Hypochondriac1028
Experienced User , Rather EHEALTHy
Joined: 10 Mar 2005 Posts: 313 Location: Ohio
Posted: 07-15-05 13:42pm
Hell ya I always think about that, id sue
childrens hospitals, all my old
phychatrists, my doctor. Everyone who
said im healthy and "refused" to treat me
because they thought it was anxiety id be
a millonaire
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dianad
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 15 Jul 2005 Posts: 17 Location: CT, USA
Posted: 07-15-05 13:50pm
Okay, still the same question. Then how
would you feel?
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Jamesab
Experienced User , Rather EHEALTHy
Joined: 09 Jul 2005 Posts: 101 Location: UK
Posted: 07-15-05 14:18pm
I would feel disgusted with the nhs
because they have not done their job
properly. Secondly I would make it known
to the public and the press so that it can
be sorted out quickly so that it doesnt
happen to anybody else.
James
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dianad
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 15 Jul 2005 Posts: 17 Location: CT, USA
Posted: 07-15-05 14:30pm
So you would take their word for it?
After you have been told for many years by
many doctors "theirs nothing wrong with
you". You would take the word of one or
two doctors? Over the how many? And if
it was reproven that their was really
nothing wrong with you (on a 3rd and 4th
doctor) and it was all mistake then what?
Am I blowing this out of proportion? You
bet, cause i've been there with a 6 though
to 9 year old child. So please excuse my
critisim, but lets take this to the max,
and yes please get angry, because the
truth lies in it. Sometimes the truth
hurts too, i'm sorry.
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mary70
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 11 Jul 2005 Posts: 46 Location: Canada
Posted: 07-15-05 14:43pm
Dian, what happen to your child? Did
doctors say that all was okay when it
wasn't??
If I found out that there was really
something wrong with me that was major and
life threatening, I am really not sure
what I would feel or what I would
do....Maybe cry and then fight like hell
for my life.....Umm don't really want to
think about that stuff...Already too
anxious and stressed....
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Jamesab
Experienced User , Rather EHEALTHy
Joined: 09 Jul 2005 Posts: 101 Location: UK
Posted: 07-15-05 15:11pm
Dian, maybe you just dont know what
anxiety is. Unless you have had it, you
will not know how horrible it is,
especially when you get it along with
panic attacks. You ask hypochondriac, no
matter how many scans he has, or doctors
he sees, it still will not assure him that
he is not about to die. I am 15 years
old, things like what I have got is not by
any means normal, so therefore doctors and
hospitals should try their best to get to
the bottom of what you have got and give
you an answer, thats what they are there
for. I am still waiting for that answer
after 5 months of hell. When you wait for
that period of time at this age, not
having the slightest clue what is causing
your symptoms, as you can imagine is not a
breeze to live with. So before you start
getting angry, look up what anxiety is,
most people who have anxiety hope to be
told that they have it and not anything
else, I know I do, but have not yet been
told.
James
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Jamesab
Experienced User , Rather EHEALTHy
Joined: 09 Jul 2005 Posts: 101 Location: UK
Posted: 07-15-05 15:23pm
Dian, are you trying to say to me do not
beleive the doctors, because there still
mite be something wrong with me??????
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dianad
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 15 Jul 2005 Posts: 17 Location: CT, USA
Posted: 07-15-05 15:25pm
Dear mary,
please don't get stressed. The thing here
is to get angry, it's called fight or
flight mode. Sometimes we need to face
that stressful thing and fight for whats
yours. It took my childs health for me to
see it.
My child at age 6 was in school when
another child was sent in by his parents
with a dose of tylenol because he had a
mild fever. By the middle of the school
day and several complaints to his teacher
and my daughter he broke out with a 104
fever and his ears bleeding. His ear
drums ruptured. My daughter being the one
sitting next to him in class of corse got
it, the ear infection.
Sure enough that week end the fever and
eardrum rupture, up to a doctors we go,
get the meds, take the meds, she's
allergic to the meds. Into hospital for
drugs to counter act the meds. (mind you
she has never been sick before this day,
so we have never given her prescription
drugs.) I am accused of poisoning her,
which goes into another story, so i'll end
that one here.
They give her different meds, allergic to
them too, back in the hospital to counter
act it. I think in a matter of 5 days, I
was home for 6 hours. That was because we
were in and out of the hospital daily, due
to the fact there are no known drugs that
my child does not show some sort of
allergy to. Everything from headaches to
rashes to runs.
So nothing they can think of is going to
work, her little body is going to have to
fight this off all by itself. 10 days
into this cold, the fever breaks. So back
to the doctors office to see how her ears
are coming along, healing time. We're
looking at 4 to 6 weeks, okay, what about
the allergy problem with the meds? 888
allergy blood test. They took 3 large
tubes of blood from a 6 year old to test
her for 888 possible allergies.
Nothing.
Meanwhile i'm being accused of poisoning
her! Excuse me but she has not had a sick
day in her life, I sent her to school,
that's when she got sick.
I had seen 6 ear, nose, and throat
doctors. Only one found what the supposed
problem was, and he was wrong too.
I do apologize I type like I talk, fast.
Getting to the point: can you trust that
one doctor who says your ill? Or do you
believe the others who say your not? The
problem is they are guessing also, just
like the first dozen you saw. If they say
there's something, then go back to the
first doctor you ever saw with the problem
and have him check it out. If he still
sees nothing go to the next one you saw.
Its a confirmation thing, if you don't
believe the first dozen doctors, then why
believe the one? Sew, I could have had
them all by the ba--s, but chose not to,
they paid for the surgeries, and chose the
surgeon.
By the way it took 3 years and 4 surgeries
before my daughter was well again. And
even the surgeries would not work, it took
something bigger.
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Jamesab
Experienced User , Rather EHEALTHy
Joined: 09 Jul 2005 Posts: 101 Location: UK
Posted: 07-15-05 15:43pm
I am sorry to hear that dian, I hope she
is a lot better now :)
see, thats what I am worried about, I
mean, fair enough i've had the scans, the
tests, and yet I feel im still getting
worse, thefore there should be further
investigations and tests to complete.
James
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dianad
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 15 Jul 2005 Posts: 17 Location: CT, USA
Posted: 07-15-05 15:49pm
Anxiety, stress? You are yes only 15,
when you have your own children please
reread that description of what it is.
Not only do I have my own health issues to
deal with (i can not tell you what they
are because the doctors can't find a darn
thing wrong with me). But now a 13 year
old with panic attacks, that you would
only understand. I do know what a
hypocondriac is. And i'm sorry if you
have this disorder, but as I was
explaining in my story, put it in its
place, change it, turn it to anger at the
doctors, demand answers, they work for
you. Without you they don't have a
paycheck or a job. You hired them for a
reason, medical wisdom you don't have. I
want to know, what they know, and if they
don't know, tell me the truth, just say "i
have no idea, what could possibly be
wrong."
do you see? It's a front, to get the
answers you need. Most people who are
hypocondriacs (like me) say "okay doctor"
and think maybe it is me, but why do I
feel this way, somethings wrong. I'll
just go someplace else, maybe they can
help. Boy are we wrong, and wow the lack
of knowledge doctors have today. Confirm
the answers, always.
And no i'm not saying you are sick, you
might be the healthiest person here, I
hope you are. I pray you are well and all
your dreams of the future come true. Be
strong, be brave, be bold in wisdom.
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mary70
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 11 Jul 2005 Posts: 46 Location: Canada
Caution/warning - Cancer & Death Mentioned Posted: 07-15-05 16:12pm
Dian,
i am so sorry to hear that your daughter
had to go through all that. When I read
your post I was so moved by it that tears
rolled down my face. I hope she is well
on her way to recovery now. I have a 6
year old daughter too and couldn't bear
anything happening to her.
I think for my case anyway, I think the
problem is that don't believe it when they
tell me there is nothing wrong. It is
like I am looking for there to be a
problem when there is none. Doctors
aren't physic, they go by blood work and
scans. If everything comes out normal
and working properly then they can't tell
there might be something wrong. I take
my health seriously and try to take
charge.
This happen to my mother, she was
basically very healthy, ate right, didn't
drink or smoke a day in her life. No
family history of any major disease from
both sides. She was constantly having
stomach cramps, her doctor always told her
that with her health history and lifestyle
that it was nothing major but something as
simple as gas. He told her to stay away
from fried and spicy food. She kept
complaining about these pains for six
months until her doctor finally decides to
do an ultrasound to apease her. Well,
they found that the stomach pains came
from stones that formed in her gallbladder
so they had to take them out. But, at
the same time they also found a huge tumor
growing on her kidney. They found it by
accident while looking at the gallbladder.
By the time they went in to take her
kidney out, the cancer in was in her
lungs. Now it is all over...Her doctor
is in shock, he said he would have never
expected her to have cancer because of her
history. They gave her 9 months.
That was 4 years ago. She still has
cancer all over but I guess it is a slow
process for her. Yes the family was mad
at the doctor because if he would of did a
complete scan when she first started
complaining the 6 months prior, maybe they
would of found it before it spread since
hers is slow growing.
I sometimes even blame my mom because she
hated going to doctors. I would tell
all the time to go to the doctor to ask
about her pain. She kept telling me it
would pass. I think you have to be in
charge of your own health and demand
tests. Do what you think is
right.....This is exactly the reason I am
a basket case about cancer.
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dianad
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 15 Jul 2005 Posts: 17 Location: CT, USA
Posted: 07-15-05 16:15pm
James,
she is the 13 year old who has the panic
attacks now. Let me tell you a thing or
2. Write down everything going on with
yourself. Got a planner? Get one, on the
day these things happen to you, write it
down. Seriously, do it, it will help your
doctor. What was going on before you
started to feel ill, during the spell, and
after. Sounds like a lot of work, it is.
But it's important for them to see if
there is a pattern, an allergy, visual.
Any thing counts, even if you don't think
it's important, they will.
My daughter is at summer camp this year,
because she did this. Turns out because
of her illness as a child she developed
chs (cronic hyperventalation syndrome),
she breaths wrong, gets dizzy and even
passes out. And yes I mean on the ground,
out cold. But for some strange reason
they call it a panic attack. We had so
many more tests done on her I can't
remember the list but I do know they cover
brain, heart, lungs, and every major organ
in the body. Nothing, but they never
checked oxygen levels during a moment of
illness (panic attack). Not to say this
is you, but the importance of writing down
information when your not at the doctors
office where you feel fine.
You will see it for yourself also. A full
blown panic attack has a pattern, and it
can be avoided. I dodge them daily.
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dianad
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 15 Jul 2005 Posts: 17 Location: CT, USA
Cancer Warning Posted: 07-15-05 16:34pm
I am sorry your mom is so ill. My mom for
years has said to me "i don't care if I
have cancer they can't cut it out. I'd
rather die." me I get angry, and we yell
at each other, but laugh later, she goes
to the doctors now, is well enough. I
understand the slow out come of the cancer
in your mom too. I have an aunt who's
been living for 15 years with cancer,
refuses medical helps, but recieves
holistic health instead. She says
everyday "i don't want to die yet, i'm not
done". She has bladder cancer, should
have been dead a week after diognosed.
It's in her whole body now, but still
refuses to give in to it. She's up and
doing her own thing as if it never
existed.
Your daughter might be the healthiest
thing for you. She makes you fight for
life for yourself, and you don't even know
it.
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Hypochondriac1028
Experienced User , Rather EHEALTHy
Joined: 10 Mar 2005 Posts: 313 Location: Ohio
Re: Caution/warning - Cancer & Death Mentioned Posted: 07-15-05 19:05pm
mary70
wrote:
dian,
i am so sorry to hear that your daughter
had to go through all that. When I
read your post I was so moved by it that
tears rolled down my face. I hope she
is well on her way to recovery now. I
have a 6 year old daughter too and
couldn't bear anything happening to her.
I think for my case anyway, I think the
problem is that don't believe it when they
tell me there is nothing wrong. It is
like I am looking for there to be a
problem when there is none. Doctors
aren't physic, they go by blood work and
scans. If everything comes out normal
and working properly then they can't tell
there might be something wrong. I take
my health seriously and try to take
charge.
This happen to my mother, she was
basically very healthy, ate right, didn't
drink or smoke a day in her life. No
family history of any major disease from
both sides. She was constantly having
stomach cramps, her doctor always told her
that with her health history and lifestyle
that it was nothing major but something as
simple as gas. He told her to stay
away from fried and spicy food. She
kept complaining about these pains for six
months until her doctor finally decides to
do an ultrasound to apease her. Well,
they found that the stomach pains came
from stones that formed in her gallbladder
so they had to take them out. But, at
the same time they also found a huge tumor
growing on her kidney. They found it
by accident while looking at the
gallbladder. By the time they went in
to take her kidney out, the cancer in was
in her lungs. Now it is all
over...Her doctor is in shock, he said he
would have never expected her to have
cancer because of her history. They
gave her 9 months. That was 4 years
ago. She still has cancer all over but
I guess it is a slow process for her.
Yes the family was mad at the doctor
because if he would of did a complete scan
when she first started complaining the 6
months prior, maybe they would of found it
before it spread since hers is slow
growing.
I sometimes even blame my mom because she
hated going to doctors. I would tell
all the time to go to the doctor to ask
about her pain. She kept telling me it
would pass. I think you have to be in
charge of your own health and demand
tests. Do what you think is
right.....This is exactly the reason I am
a basket case about
cancer.
