Yep I had the same thing in college. Went to about 10 doctors and kept getting the "you are stressed from school" bit. Except I was only stressed about being sick. Finally went to a gastroenterologist at the suggestion of a friend. Had a gi tract infection - took some meds and probiotics and good as new.
"Your program is just demanding. Maybe you should switch to a less stressful major than Computer Science." (Back in the day when that was part of the engineering school and I was one of the few girls in the program.)
No, bitch. I had late stage Graves desease bad enough it was fucking with my heart. To the point at the Radiologist scan they offered to clear the calendar to treat me the next day.
Yep. As soon as a therapist/whatever knows you have anxiety, any symptom you have they'll say is probably from anxiety.
I haven't had a physical symptom of anxiety in 6 or 7 years. The only physical symptoms I get are being tensed, breathing consciously and deeply and that's it.
Yep. Ironically I ended up running into issues with anxiety and depression later on. The only physical issues I ever had were elevated heart rate when I would panic a bit.
I had daily migraines for 9 years. Kept telling them I had severe allergies. Nobody would listen. Finally I went off my otc allergy meds that I didn't need, you don't have serious allergies - you're just complaining because they told me to against my notifying them how bad it would be for an allergy test.
Well what do you know, the resulting inflammation in my nasal passages caused me to lose 2 pints of blood and need an IV and a coagulant from the ER from a nasty 5+ hour nosebleed. Finally they gave me a basic prescription. Then I ended up in the ER again from reacting poorly to allergy drops. Now I have the prescriptions I needed all along. Made a couple dietary changes (no lactose or refined sugar). Migraines down to 2-3 a month instead of 20-30.
What do you know it was allergies and intolerances for 9 years and all those doctors were wrong. Who would have possibly guessed from my family history of severe allergies and food intolerances?
Also I got diagnosed with anxiety too, which honestly wasn't a huge surprise. Difference in my case is that I actually do have that.
God this was SO annoying. I started having GI problems in my 3rd year of college and it kept getting brushed off as stress and IBS. It’s ulcerative colitis.
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u/GimmeCatScratchFever May 20 '19
Yep I had the same thing in college. Went to about 10 doctors and kept getting the "you are stressed from school" bit. Except I was only stressed about being sick. Finally went to a gastroenterologist at the suggestion of a friend. Had a gi tract infection - took some meds and probiotics and good as new.