Fear of doctors!

hazyjo

Gigervamp wrote: »

I'm so glad Hazyjo. Well done! You don't want to end up like me.

Like I said - brave lady Thanks


I went down the 'confident route' and glammed up and washed my hair and straightened it and did my makeup nice (looked like I was going for a night on the tiles rather than the docs).


Hope things are okay for you at the mo xx

System

I'm not scared of doctors no way but he's only got to reach for his blood pressure thingy and my blood pressure goes through the roof! My doctor calls it 'White Coat Syndrome':D

My blood pressure goes so high sometimes he cant even take a reading. I have my own blood pressure thingy at home and have to give him a set of readings every 6 months.

It was a nightmare when I was pregnant as I was in and out of hospital like a yoyo with several of my pregnancies.

I have the same problem at the hospital when they go to give me a blood test. My veins collapse at the sight of a needle and I regularly come out looking like a pin cushion.

hazyjo

Judi wrote: »

I'm not scared of doctors no way but he's only got to reach for his blood pressure thingy and my blood pressure goes through the roof! My doctor calls it 'White Coat Syndrome':D

My blood pressure goes so high sometimes he cant even take a reading. I have my own blood pressure thingy at home and have to give him a set of readings every 6 months.

It was a nightmare when I was pregnant as I was in and out of hospital like a yoyo with several of my pregnancies.

I have the same problem at the hospital when they go to give me a blood test. My veins collapse at the sight of a needle and I regularly come out looking like a pin cushion.

Aren't we a strange bunch lol. Mine was the same last time they tested it, but I'm sure it was nerves. Thankfully she didn't test, stab (needles!), weigh or question me She actually made me feel good about myself which was amazing lol. Dunno how I'd have coped with docs, etc if I'd have had kids


Jx

System

Well done for going for your smear. Fortunately I am of the age where I don't have to have smear tests as often as I have done in the past. I don't dislike them or find them unpleasant myself but I don't like showing my 'bits'. Its not so bad when your in your 20s and only given birth a couple of times but when your in your 50s and given birth 6 times.... you tend to get a bit embarrassed... well I do anyway.

gettingtheresometime

I just regard doctors like another member of the society - they may have gone to Uni for longer than most people but they are still human,and hence can still make mistakes

Janepig

hazyjo wrote: »

Thanks 'sis'


Was actually the doctor not nurse, maybe that reassured me, I'm not sure.




Jx

Well done on braving the smear test!! I went about three weeks ago and the last time I'd been before that was 2001, two years before DD was born - I'd always gone regularly before that. However, it was the first time I'd ever had a nurse do it, it's always been done by doctors previously, and it always will be in the future. There was me chatting away telling her that I'd never found it painful (just embarrassing), but when it came down to it I think she used a speculum the size of a fire extinguisher, it was so painful.

I made a right div of myself lying there going "ouch, ouch, ouch" but I couldn't help it. The tiny scraps of my dignity that remained after having had two children got up and left the room so I finally have no dignity left whatsoever!! I got up and left the room walking like John Wayne!!! :rotfl:

Jx

Georgiegirl256

hazyjo wrote: »

Thanks 'sis'


Was actually the doctor not nurse, maybe that reassured me, I'm not sure.




Jx

Hehe! You're welcome Sis!

The nurses do them in our surgery, it's very rare that a doctor will do it.

I went for a blood test the other week, and I'm such a wimp with needles. She (the nurse) knows I don't like them and asked if I wanted to lie down on the bed! I told her I was ok, and I wasn't that scared that I was going to pass out lol! I always look away though....veins freak me out! :rotfl:

Georgiegirl256

Judi wrote: »

I'm not scared of doctors no way but he's only got to reach for his blood pressure thingy and my blood pressure goes through the roof! My doctor calls it 'White Coat Syndrome':D
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My mil is the same. She had to wear have a monitor at home that she had to wear all the time and which inflated every hour or so....totally got on her nerves! The readings were fine but just go high in the surgery, and the doctor said it must be 'white coat syndrome'.

Lol @janepig....Fire Extinguisher! :rotfl:

gettingtheresometime

I have to admit I've had more smears than hot dinners over the last 11 years or so to the point now where I think oh just get on with it ............

Best laugh I had though was when a consultant asked me if I wanted to see what she could see during an examination - as I said of all the questions she could have asked me that one didn't even make the list!

KxMx

I have a real love/hate relationship with Drs.

I've been having serious issues for the past 8 years and still no diagnosis so you can imagine how many I have seen.

On the one had you get the GP who (at a medication review) tells me my heart is racing, you are anxious, why are you anxious, that'll make IBS worse (yes I have a dx of IBS but only because they cannot find IBD, my symptoms are much worse than IBS), why are you not going to local Hospital (after I mentioned I had an appointment at non local the following week.)

Well I wasn't anxious I had anaemia so bad it was life threatening, when it was found days later I was recalled to non local Hospital immediately, had two units of blood within hours and a 3 night stay. I'd been feeling awful for weeks but assumed it was worst ever flare of normal problems why would I think different?

No diagnosis yet or confirmed cause but they are trying!

So on the one hand you have the idiot GP, the consultant at local Hospital who told me nothing more could be done and didn't bother monitoring me, but on the other you have the lovely Dr who did care and ran a basic test which found a life threatening problem! And i'd not been home 2 days when a follow up letter from him arrived. Good job I didn't accept the "nothing more can be done" and demanded a referral elsewhere!

Plus side is by the time I am smear age had loads of invasive tests.Nothing up the front though. So was nervous but reminded myself all i'd had already and it was the practice nurse who did it who I know and feel comfortable with. A bonus after being used to getting some random male who is going up the other hole (sorry if TMI) :rotfl: Even with the lovely NHS modesty pants and even though the prep is way harder than the test, it's still a little embarrassing!

I find going to the GP mega depressing and Hospital worse but it has to be done. I get upset by idiot Drs but I try and shrug them off hoping *one day* I will have a diagnosis and I can stick my finger up at several!

Dentists though I have a terrible phobia. Living in the US for 2 years we didn't have the money so from age 8-10 I didn't go. After that I think the break broke me so to speak and been terrified ever since. Not even had a cavity or any work done apart from pulling out 2 stubborn baby teeth- one had a hole so he took both out. I know it's just fear and anxiety and I did try and ease myself back in but failed.

Just scares me. I did go reluctantly most years but I haven't been for 4 or 5 I used lack of money as an excuse and now it's a bigger mountain to climb. Do have a wisdom tooth but not causing any problems yet touch wood. If it has to come out then it'll be under the Hospital and a GA!