FluffiGirl
12-03-10, 01:04
Hi...
I've had symptoms of anxiety since the age of 16..It's now 20yrs later and I still have anxiety and panic attacks...I have health anxiety as well...I was prescribed fluoxetine early on in my diagnosis and I had akathisia as a side effect and it was the scariest thing I had experienced in my life...and so I decided to go down the non-medication path...I have found CBT to be quite helpful although very challenging, and being able to talk through things seems to help too (touch-wood!)...
At the moment, I am trying to get through my fear of medical treatment as I have very bad teeth and I need to have quite a few extractions done (this was from a fear of cleaning my teeth!!).... I am petrified about having treatment done...I get horrendous shakes when I have the local anesthetics that include adrenalin in...and although I have found a dentist who is very sensitive to the needs of nervous patients...she is still trying to steer me towards having those sorts of injections...This is because you bleed less with this types of injections I think...
I find the whole idea of treatment very overwhelming and I have lost confidence in my ability to cope with things...I can't even type what exactly my fear is..in case it makes it real!!..
It is really effecting me at the moment and I feel very down about it...to the point where I have been thinking the unthinkable because I am just so scared at having all the treatment done...
I am too scared to go down the road of sedation or a general anesthetic or taking valium etc. because of my fear of any kind of medical treatment and what effect it has on me...Also I am a control freak!!...So I hate the idea of being unconscious or somehow impaired sensory wise...I don't even drink alcohol because of similar fears!!...
I have had 3 small fillings so far...but I have to have at least 4 extractions, possibly more...and several root fillings...I did get through the fillings...but I felt rough afterwards...
Anyhooooos...hello...*waves*
I've had symptoms of anxiety since the age of 16..It's now 20yrs later and I still have anxiety and panic attacks...I have health anxiety as well...I was prescribed fluoxetine early on in my diagnosis and I had akathisia as a side effect and it was the scariest thing I had experienced in my life...and so I decided to go down the non-medication path...I have found CBT to be quite helpful although very challenging, and being able to talk through things seems to help too (touch-wood!)...
At the moment, I am trying to get through my fear of medical treatment as I have very bad teeth and I need to have quite a few extractions done (this was from a fear of cleaning my teeth!!).... I am petrified about having treatment done...I get horrendous shakes when I have the local anesthetics that include adrenalin in...and although I have found a dentist who is very sensitive to the needs of nervous patients...she is still trying to steer me towards having those sorts of injections...This is because you bleed less with this types of injections I think...
I find the whole idea of treatment very overwhelming and I have lost confidence in my ability to cope with things...I can't even type what exactly my fear is..in case it makes it real!!..
It is really effecting me at the moment and I feel very down about it...to the point where I have been thinking the unthinkable because I am just so scared at having all the treatment done...
I am too scared to go down the road of sedation or a general anesthetic or taking valium etc. because of my fear of any kind of medical treatment and what effect it has on me...Also I am a control freak!!...So I hate the idea of being unconscious or somehow impaired sensory wise...I don't even drink alcohol because of similar fears!!...
I have had 3 small fillings so far...but I have to have at least 4 extractions, possibly more...and several root fillings...I did get through the fillings...but I felt rough afterwards...
Anyhooooos...hello...*waves*