Anxiety Support Group
Anxiety is a physical condition marked by intense and persistent feelings of distress, fear, angst or dread. General anxiety caused by routine day-to-day stresses usually passes quickly and is experienced by almost everyone at one time or another. However, such feelings that linger over time and are very difficult to cope with, and which lack a clear cause, may indicate...
Most of my troubles are caused by abusive doctors, nurses, medical providers, and support staff. I had one experience at a hospital emergency room where the nurse threatened to dump me out on the pavement unless I left (which I couldn't do because I was having a seizure). I was discharged from the clinic I went to for 40 years because a nurse was frightened when I had a seizure. At another hospital, the admitting staff person got into a shouting match with the ambulance drivers because he didn't want to admit me after his doctor had already done so. (I was unable to move or speak during this episode). At another hospital, a nurse ripped my breathing equipment off my face because I couldn't sit up while having a seizure and she thought I was misbehaving. They then put me in an unheated room and made me sleep on the floor during cold winter weather and pulled off my blankets when I couldn't move due to having a seizure.
I am now terrified at the thought that I might have to go to a hospital.
I am now terrified at the thought that I might have to go to a hospital.
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Here's a survey of where your MS has been and where it is now. A.) Type of MS and year of DX, (or no dx)B.) On a scale of 1 - 10 with 1 being so few symptoms that it does not affect your life at all to 10, you are unable to get out of bed and need 100% care what is the worst (you have BEEN with your MS "EVER."C.). On a scale of 1 - 10, (same thing), but where you are at (at this point in your...
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I'm trying to exercise daily. I was doing fairly well until I sprained my ankle 2 weeks ago but now I'm getting back on the horse. Today I walked over a mile with my arm weights that are about 22lbs total. I was out of shape and it was hard on my arms. I also did my 30 situps. I'm also going to drink a lot of water and try to eat healthy. I do tend to have a sweet tooth but I'm cutting...
when a Dr starts to talk to you and is all Nicey nicey and as hes checking you out strikes up a convo about a off the wall subject that dont have nothing to with your illness , and the kind that is eger to bring out the Rx Pad and sits across from you asking whats is your issue, the kind that dont take the time out to ask you questions , the ones who run out of the room your in and say BRB ! those are the ones you want to try to avoid
here are the 1's you want to see, the 1 that comes reaches hand out and greets you sits on the stool and goes over your forms you fill'd out ect:
the one that looks you in the eye constantly .. the one that doesnt have to ask you 2 x's why are you here? the kind that listens to your heart beat and listens to your neck and makes you cough up a lung .. things like that to look for when your seeing a Dr , just something to think about
I really hope you find a decent doctor who will treat you with common decency and respect because you deserve it!
My deal is actually nil compared to a cousin, They actually threatened to Baker Act her if she didn't quit complaining. Meanwhile they failed to diagnose a severe infection in the cartilege supporting her lungs called "costochondritis" which is an inflammation due to repeated respiratory infections.
It was finally diagnosed by (of all Dr's) her gastroenteralogist and not the primary or respiratory Dr;s that threatened to put her in the hospital and treat her for mental illness.
I have good doctors who care for me, and my therapist is great. But in a hospital, I am in charge of someone who doesn't know about my diagnosis and who thinks I'm faking.
My therapist says that they don't understand, think I'm just being uncooperative, and become "hostile, aggressive, judgmental, and punitive."
This from the people who ware supposed to be helping me get well ...