White coat syndrome....
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Hello everyone! So does anyone out there have this white coat syndrome aka anxiety big time when its time to go to the doctor? I've made 2 appointments that are much needed, with a brand new GP.. One for myself and one for my husband.. The one for my husband is today, and I need to go explain the last 2 years of his medical history from hospital stays to all the testing he's had done to the referrals to specialists he needs, of coarse he can't do it, it wouldn't get done right! Mine isn't even until tomorrow morning, and well I'm having a really bad anxiety episode on verg of panic , chest tight belching trapped gas feels like I can't breathe just can't calm down, and I hate this.. I haven't been like this since last year, my anxiety really has been in check.. But no not today its reared its ugly head big time.. Its early morning and I'm going to get busy doing some house chores to get my worried about everything mind off of all the insane crap.. I was in the grocery store yesterday with my 2 year old grandson pushing him around in the shopping cart and picking out pumpkins which we brought home and decorated, I felt fantastic yesterday! And that's huge for me and a grocery store, all the ladies were coming up and saying how cute he was with all his pumpkins, and I got to talking to one older woman about menopause, and I was telling her what an awful time I'm having, and she said yes not a nice ride at all, she said she couldn't stand herself for like 2 years, but assured me it does calm down and gets better... Well will see!!! Just wondering does anyone else have the worry anxiety big time when its time for something? I just want to run hide and bury my head in the sand today...
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audra86673 Gypsy014
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Oh yes! I'm so irrational when it comes to going to the Dr! My bp and pulse skyrocket! I haven't had a normal bp reading at the dr's in over a year! I have to convince them I have WCS every single time I go. Normally, my bp is around 105/65 at home. It can go as high as 180/110 in the Dr office! Agh!!! I hate even making appointments. It's time for my annual Gyn appointment and yearly GP physical and I'm past due for my annual mammogram. I don't even mind getting mammograms.. but I can't make myself make the call! I just don't want to think about another freaking Dr appointment and the irrational fear of them finding something really wrong with me. So crazy on my part, I know.
sharcerv52408 audra86673
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No it's not crazy because if it was then we're all crazy together. My blood pressure goes up at the doctors office too. When I know that I need to make an appointment I procrastinate. I finally make the appointment then on the day of I cancel it because my nerves are so bad. It's terrible! But we have to go to the doctor eventually don't we?
juanita93228 Gypsy014
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Oh yes! I'm always afraid the Dr. might find something terrible.
Also just called on sick two days in a row because I felt so low. Just could not deal with people. Hang in there.😊🤗🤗🤗
Gypsy014 juanita93228
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I get that same way also, just can't be around anyone.. So I just stay by myself
sharcerv52408 Gypsy014
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Oh yes, Gypsy! I get that dreaded anxiety when I have to go to the doctor too. My blood pressure goes up when I'm at the doctors. But when I'm home it's normal. A doctor told me once that I actually have "white coat syndrome" I had never heard of it before. But I do know that it didn't start until peri began. I never had anxiety problems of any kind before. I sit there in the waiting room and try to deep breathe but sometimes I'm just so anxious that I can't calm myself down. I fear that they are going to find something wrong with me. I never even had blood pressure issues until peri began. I will be so glad when peri and menopause is finished with my body so I can have it back.
Gypsy014 sharcerv52408
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Hi sharcerv, yes the anticipation is horrible just waiting , and then you go through stages , I really didn't think I would make it through, after the visit, its back to the waiting room to wait for 70 tubes of blood to be drawn referrals and new appointments, now waiting for all the results has me climbing the walls.. I never ever use to be like this, its awful 😢
sharcerv52408 Gypsy014
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Oh I forgot to mention, I get anxious not only at my appointments but at my kid's or my elderly mother's appointments too. I'm there for them but I'm a nervous wreck.
Gypsy014 sharcerv52408
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Me too I take my mom, and I'm nervous there as well..
sarah05599 Gypsy014
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Yes me to!! I have never been to the dreaded GP so much in the last year since peri hit and get in such a state 2 days before the appointment. It doesn't help with though that some have attitude problems that make you feel worse.
Gypsy014 sarah05599
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Hi Sarah, I know right, and they check you for everything, and while they are checking and your waiting for results, you are sure you definitely have everything they are checking you for, or why else would they be checking right? That's how my anxiety mind works anyways...
Finny2018 Gypsy014
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Gypsy - yes! I hate this. I don't remember feeling this before? But so much of what I read says that during Peri and Menopause we can feel like we can't "handle" things the way we used to; boy can I relate to that! My blood pressure and heart rate spikes when my doctor walks in. I really hope this will pass at some point.