Trusting Doctors

[Topher7]

If you guys are having health anxiety, what do you do after you leave the doctors office to take it all to heart. I feel great and exhaust all questions while with them but after I leave and about 2 days later I'll start getting doubts about explaining things or whatever.

[Topher7]

Just a follow up...and why I love my neurologist...she just returned a call of mine..she always does and talked to me for about 15 minutes. I asked her if she would always give it to me straight about stuff and she said it is a disservice to beat around the bush. When I talked about the meds she gave me or prescription she was good at explaining. I asked her "so basically you think I'm completely healthy" and she said "Neurologically YES but you are working into some anxiety issues"..LOL. Well at least that is good to hear.

[suzi-q]

Just to share, one neurologist didn't take me seriously and told me to find someone and have sex....(I was single and a virgin at the time and he knew this)...needless to say, I never went back to him again!

[trouble10]

You're right. Some days it's all  you can do. I rely a lot on my husband to tell me the absolute truth because I don't trust the docs to tell me all they know. That's one reason I went into the medical field. I wish you luck!! Love...

[Topher7]

Nice story:). My doc keeps telling me to go enjoy my kids or one of them prescribes more golf but I can't shake some things.

[trouble10]

There's a funny story I tell about going to the doc because my heart was beating way too fast and it was scaring me to death. He calmly told me, with a straight face, that I had tachychardia and sent me home. I didn't realize til years later that tachy is latin for speedy and chardia is latin for heart. He sat there and told me I had a fast heart!!!!! I can laugh about it now. Love....

[Topher7]

I know. I went to the Neurologist a 3rd time and she never has done EMGs because she says every test on strength and all has come back strong. So she checks my tongue, tests my swallowing and tells me I'm great. She is my best doctor and pretty much talked to me about meds and counseling. We talked forever and I felt great. Then when I bit my tongue chewing or something I was like..."well maybe it is getting bad now." I see the idiocy in it. I se how dumb it is. It just happens.

[tostressed]

I know how you feel. I think I have asked all the questions and said all I needed to say then I have doubts when I get to my car. I used to do that all the time when my anxiety was bad. I have had so many tests that I have given up. I have finally realized that I would be dead by now if it was really serious.

[MMomma]

I think that everybody feels that way. while your there they ease your fears and reassure you that its just anxiety so u tell yourself that then when u start to relize how crappy you feel after all.thats when the anxiety hits

[iamfaithful]

I could have written this myself!