sam1878
28-02-09, 20:50
I have been diagnosed with anxiety and depression after an ectopic pregnancy, I had round Christmas time. I agree I am suffering from as about three weeks after this a happended I was under a lot of stress personally due to giving up smoking and a woman pestering my partner all the time all came to a head
This diagnosis came from the fact that I having pains all down the right side of my body such as breast pain, underarm pain, back and rib pain even leg pain sometimes and I have been told that this is anxiety as blood tests came back all ok but I thought I had some sort of cancer (my mum died of this) and ended up going to A&E several times for an explaination of symptoms and second opinion which one time included havign an ECG which was clear. I have even paid for a private mammamogram to be told I am ok but the thought is still at the back of my head that all is not right, I had sort of started to accept they could be anxiety syptoms after speaking to friends and family who keep reasuring me about the tests and the doctors in A&E.
My GP refered me to our Cmmunity mental health team and on my first session they were very good, again descriped the pain ect down to anxiety and said they could help me but on my second visit weds, I feel very let down by them, they just want to seem to prescribe drugs (I am already taking citalopram) Olanzapine to "calm me down" but I dont want to take them. I explained this and they prescribed an alternative (still same tyope of drug though ) and I told them that I needed some sort of rationale behind them prescribing me this other than to calm down and that I thought my GP wanted me to have some sort of therapy or CBT to help me with this. I am seeing the team every two days and on Wednesday they told me a nurse would come to see me Friday and on Thursday they rang them and they said they would feedback I didnt want the tablets and we would discuss Friday: However they sent a "link worker" who knew nothing about my history and even brought a prescription for the drug I refused and said he was not medical and just came to monitor my mood. I feel like my trust has been broken a bit that they said a nurse would be coming out and I am now thinking the symptoms are not anxiety related again, I jsut dont see how they can be and find it hard to understand
Has anybody been through similar experiences? I want to try and hold off taking the drugs prescribed but dont know what to do anymore and am at a loss, should I press my GP for further tests?
I feel like I am going insane, I work for the NHS and am off work sick at the moment but just feel I am being fobbed off as overly anxious (which I accept I am at the moment) and everything is being put down to anxiety but just dont know or understand. Some of the pain I had in my back before my pregnancy and all this happened but seems to be lost in translation due to me being upset
This diagnosis came from the fact that I having pains all down the right side of my body such as breast pain, underarm pain, back and rib pain even leg pain sometimes and I have been told that this is anxiety as blood tests came back all ok but I thought I had some sort of cancer (my mum died of this) and ended up going to A&E several times for an explaination of symptoms and second opinion which one time included havign an ECG which was clear. I have even paid for a private mammamogram to be told I am ok but the thought is still at the back of my head that all is not right, I had sort of started to accept they could be anxiety syptoms after speaking to friends and family who keep reasuring me about the tests and the doctors in A&E.
My GP refered me to our Cmmunity mental health team and on my first session they were very good, again descriped the pain ect down to anxiety and said they could help me but on my second visit weds, I feel very let down by them, they just want to seem to prescribe drugs (I am already taking citalopram) Olanzapine to "calm me down" but I dont want to take them. I explained this and they prescribed an alternative (still same tyope of drug though ) and I told them that I needed some sort of rationale behind them prescribing me this other than to calm down and that I thought my GP wanted me to have some sort of therapy or CBT to help me with this. I am seeing the team every two days and on Wednesday they told me a nurse would come to see me Friday and on Thursday they rang them and they said they would feedback I didnt want the tablets and we would discuss Friday: However they sent a "link worker" who knew nothing about my history and even brought a prescription for the drug I refused and said he was not medical and just came to monitor my mood. I feel like my trust has been broken a bit that they said a nurse would be coming out and I am now thinking the symptoms are not anxiety related again, I jsut dont see how they can be and find it hard to understand
Has anybody been through similar experiences? I want to try and hold off taking the drugs prescribed but dont know what to do anymore and am at a loss, should I press my GP for further tests?
I feel like I am going insane, I work for the NHS and am off work sick at the moment but just feel I am being fobbed off as overly anxious (which I accept I am at the moment) and everything is being put down to anxiety but just dont know or understand. Some of the pain I had in my back before my pregnancy and all this happened but seems to be lost in translation due to me being upset