Health anxiety

[kjm1987]

I know a lot of symptoms boil down to anxiety, but as I've been to the docs so many times with anxiety issues, I often feel like if there was something seriously wrong with me, the doc would just palm me off with 'anxiety' again and completely miss the point when I am actually ill....

[Minnie12]

What is wrong with you? Lots of people worry about health is do with anxiety! I have got health anxiety and go gp many of times to get reassure! Xx

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Hi kjm

i no exactly how you feel , had the same thoughts so many times over the years my self

I have seen the same doc for years & I did start to think she was taking the easy way out & blaming my anxiety on everything i went with , even though i do have physical problems as well , i do appreciate that anxiety can make some physical problems worse , but she was one that everything was anxiety

I am now seeing a different doc in the same surgery & at the moment i am feeling she is better at seperating which is anxiety from my physical , which is making me feel more reasurred

If you really feel you have not as much trust as you should have , is there someone else in the surgery you could see

I do understand when suffering with anxiety alot of aches pains etc are due to anxiety & I do try & accept that , but when I have genuine health problems , i do want to be listened to & this different gp i did mention that to her , & she seems to have a better understanding

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[Rosylilac]

You should never stop going to the doctors, even if you do feel that they may not take you seriously. I think honesty is your best policy, maybe just be totally frank with your doctor and tell them your concerns. Explain that you worry that genuin symptoms will be ignored because you have the anxiety issues and if they put it down to your anxiety, would you be able to ask for a second opinion? Do you have a good relationship with your doctor?

I've had so many tests in 2012 for various different things and it always turned out to be nothing i really don't understand where these symptoms come from, they are very real!

[leehow79]

I hav suffered frm depression 4 most of my life + i think if i went 2 the docs wiv a broken leg they would blame it on my illness. Its the same 4 any mental disability.