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...

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jazzmynn 10/23/2007

I wonder if anyone else goes from dr. to dr. looking for answers.
Does anyone else worry "What's wrong with me now"?

I had a quirky thing happen to me recently.
I was having stomach problems, indigestion, diarrhea, bloating, etc.
I went to see my family dr. about taking something for it. Well, she said to try some Bentyl, and if that didn't work, that she would give me a referral to a gastroenterologist.
So...I take the Bentyl a few times and it helps.
But, I still got in to see a gastro dr. (Worried about what's wrong with me).
The doctor then begins to tell me that I need an upper endoscopy to see if I have any pre-cancerous condition in my esophogus from having GERD for years. He then starts saying he is going to do biopsies for Celiac Sprue (wheat allergy) during the test. He even questioned the colonoscopy I had back in Ill. where I'm from, why they didn't do biopsies of it too. (My colonoscopy was normal).
Anyway, I have IBS from anxiety and it flares up now and then.
He says there are other conditions that can act like IBS. Therefore the endoscopy.

The iffy part is that I feel fine now. I can't see why I have to put myself through that test next month and have tremendous anxiety about having it.

I want your opinions and also please tell me if you always think you have something worse and obsess about it. I run to doctors only to find I am usually fine and it's anxiety.

Let me know...Thanks!!!

deleted_user 10/23/2007

Yeah, for me it is my heart, usually. I've been for all the tests (results normal) and still wonder if they have missed something. Then I watch mystery diagnosis on Discovery health channel, and some people have symptoms for a long time of different things, and it turns out to be something that possibly could have killed them that lots of docs have missed, so the anxiety begins in my mind that the docs probably did miss something in me.... It does happen, right?? Then I read on here that people have the same pounding, palpitating, fluttering, slow beat, fast beat etc...and it doesn't seem as likely that all of the docs have misdiagnosed all of the people, does it???BUT STILL????And another thing, when you see a specialist that knows of your anxiety, they have already sort of dismissed you as "just another head case", so they may not tae you (me) as seriously. had a treadmil stress test that was OK until I had to walk uphill, then I got weak and dizzy, nauseous. He told me to sit and that the test was normal. Was the test normal, is it normal to get weak & dizzy on the uphill???
HOW THE HECK ARE WE SUPPOSED TO KNOW ???

deleted_user 10/23/2007

I was just at the dr yesterday and she told me that I have IBS created from the anxiety...she gave me Bentyl as well. She told me to try it and come back in a month and we will see how it is then. I used to go from one dr to another years ago...all I did was end up spending a lot of unneessary money.

deleted_user 10/25/2007

i think im dying. but its not productive telling you this. put a bunch of hypochondriacs in one room, they'd die just from talking about symtpoms.
i know i would, i try and avoid the internet now, and health sites.
you see i ''have'' had;
thyroid cancer,
throat cancer,
blood clot on the brain,
brain tumour,
mild epilepsy,
small localised tumours,
migraines,
ME,
glandular fever,
and finally whiplash.

and people with flu think they have problems. and ya ive been to five doctors, drop in, had a test, been to a pharmisist and chiropractor.

i hope all goes well for you. you are lucky that its not something worse.
i mean, we are all doing the same thing... creating an illness through fear.

fear is a lot more dangerous believe it or not. it ruins lives.
but i do believe that intially we are ill... we just worry too much.
(*eats her words slowly*)

take care and be healthy x

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