crystal17
06-12-11, 14:42
Hello, just have to share my experience of this morning.
I went to get a prescription of my citalopram and as soon as I walked in I realised the doctor was someone i've known since i was a kid! He was my sisters best friends dad. We said hello and I asked how his daughter was etc and he did my prescription then he looked on my notes and read about my anxiety caused by my mum having a heart attack 2 years ago at the age of 53.
I'd mentioned it to the previous doctor a few weeks before, along with the fact that I get palpitations. He suddenly looked concerned and said we should do a blood test right now, in fact he insisted and said it would help reassure me.
I've never known a doctor do a blood test, its normally the nurse! Anyway he did it there and then and took quite alot of blood and said he would fast track the results so they'd be ready in 2 days.
I'm now panic stricken, my heart has gone crazy and I'm imagining all sorts of things. He's testing for cholesterol, blood sugar, thyroid, liver, kidney and other heart-related things I've forgotten.
He stressed this was mostly to reassure me but he did look worried when he read about my mums heart attack.
Help me anyone I'm dreading the phone call from the surgery saying I have everything wrong with me :weep:
---------- Post added at 14:42 ---------- Previous post was at 14:41 ----------
Just to say I had full blood tests a year ago and everything was normal, is it likely to have changed much since then?
I went to get a prescription of my citalopram and as soon as I walked in I realised the doctor was someone i've known since i was a kid! He was my sisters best friends dad. We said hello and I asked how his daughter was etc and he did my prescription then he looked on my notes and read about my anxiety caused by my mum having a heart attack 2 years ago at the age of 53.
I'd mentioned it to the previous doctor a few weeks before, along with the fact that I get palpitations. He suddenly looked concerned and said we should do a blood test right now, in fact he insisted and said it would help reassure me.
I've never known a doctor do a blood test, its normally the nurse! Anyway he did it there and then and took quite alot of blood and said he would fast track the results so they'd be ready in 2 days.
I'm now panic stricken, my heart has gone crazy and I'm imagining all sorts of things. He's testing for cholesterol, blood sugar, thyroid, liver, kidney and other heart-related things I've forgotten.
He stressed this was mostly to reassure me but he did look worried when he read about my mums heart attack.
Help me anyone I'm dreading the phone call from the surgery saying I have everything wrong with me :weep:
---------- Post added at 14:42 ---------- Previous post was at 14:41 ----------
Just to say I had full blood tests a year ago and everything was normal, is it likely to have changed much since then?