What Cause High Anxiety For You In Docs Office?

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I was going to put this in the Random Discussion, but since those on the Autism Spectrum is affected more by the events that goes on I decided to put it here.

What is the one thing that cause you to go into high anxiety when in the doctor's office?

Mine is getting my blood pressure taken. The new nurse not only didn't allow me to rest a few minutes but she had me to sit up on the examination taking with feed dangling and no support for my back while she had a bear hug on my arm. And my new doctor did the same thing. I have always got outrageously high readings when a medical professional does this.

Most of the time I'm seated in a chair with my arm resting on a surface and this is what the instructions that comes with the blood pressure gauges says also. I've also read on the Internet which confirms the proper way to get a correct blood pressure reading and this is always how I did it at home too. I have a professional blood pressure gauge that I have even seen in doctors offices along with other gauges. Anyhow, since he is such an idiot I will be looking for another doctor after I need to get everything done.

Them not wanting to listen to what I have to say. (When I start talking, they interrupt me and stop me talking). I really dislike my GP.

The one thing? There are so many things I couldn't list them all! For starters the waiting room: people crammed in together making small talk . . . acckkk!

But if I had to choose one, it would be the fact that my fate is in the hands of someone else. That I have to convince them of something that is incredibly significant to me in order to get help and that I might be dismissed.

Any physical exam is horrible. I don't want strange people touching me, or invading my personal space. Even for blood draws, the nurse is right in my face trying to find a vein, and it usually takes three pokes for them to get there.

No problem at at in the Dr.'s office--the Dentist's is another matter--my blood pressure goes way up... I think past experiences has a lot to do with it.

The anxiety I experience at a doctor's office comes over the fear that there might be something wrong that will cause me to have to endure further medical help. For example, getting my blood pressure checked causes me anxiety because I felt that if it were high, I would have to undergo something more---like blood pressure medicine. Guess what? I am now on blood pressure medicine. I am taking Bystolic which is also helping with my anxiety.

Thinking back I can trace some of my doctor anxiety to when I was a child. It seemed like when I was growing up every time one stuck their head in the doctor's office you got a Penicillin shot. So I feared that, especially after an inexperienced nurse hurt me bad giving me an injection when I was a child---I nearly passed out.

For me. It has to do with the smell of isopropyl alcohol and the whurring sounds of computer fans you hear when you enter the doctor's office. I associate that experience from back when I was just a little kid going to the doctor to get my shots and being horrified of being poked by the needle.

Ditto on what you say and this new doctor questions me at every turn. He was trying to tell me that Tranxene didn't treat anxiety and he is so full of poo on so many levels because I looked on 4 very reputable websites that say Tranxene does treat the symptoms of Anxiety and prescribed Paxil. This new doctor and I have already had words today over the crap he is trying to pull on me. And I'm not going to put up with him too much longer. I don't like this cocky snarky doctor because not only don't he know his medicines and what they do that well he is always right and I'm always wrong when I try to ask him questions. He had to get out his little book to look up Tranxene and I'm wondering if he needs glasses too as close as he had his little book of drugs

My biggest anxiety with going to any doctor's office, is having to deal with the people at the front desk with borderline personality disorder. All doctors' offices have at least one, if not all of the front staff, under this category!

It feels as if they're out to try to push my buttons, and they have to make everybody wrong about something and make themselves right about everything. Even as simple as how I pay, which is always regular pay (no insurance). They'll say something like "We don't take patients without insurance", so you COULDN'T have ever paid that way before!! !! (even though I've been a patient for 15 years and never had insurance, and always paid that way and the records prove it). Stuff like that, which is all easily-proven fact, and which they refuse to accept under any circumstances. Then when they look in the records and are astonished to see that they were wrong, they get nasty to me, and act that way for ever after. Again, this seems to be the case at most all doctors' offices. No idea why..... Or they'll insist that I failed to keep an appt. that never existed, and when they find out it was someone else they were thinking of, they'll say 'Well, you caused all this hassle, and it's your fault".

Charles

It is hard for me when a doctor seems overworked or confused. I had a GP who would call to give me results to a blood test then the next day say the results never came back from the from the lab. She was always looking for stuff or trying to point things out on her computer screen but the way she tried to explain things away was to confusing. Making me look at numbers and tekst I could not comprehend certainly not so fast and in that situation. This often made me leave her office more confused than when I got there.

She also often would ask me why I came to see her as if I was a bother even though I only visited her about 3 times a year. Like if it turned out I didn't have some life threatening illness but just something explainable instead of explaining it and reassuring me. She would start asking why I came.

This really made me feel insecure visiting her. so on my last visits I asked my boyfriend to accompany me. And he also thought her behaviour was strange. A relief because I was beginning to think there was something wrong with me.

Beginning of this year she left without giving any notice. I only got a small note saying that the health would be looking for a replacement.

the robe was made of paper. it kept ripping every time i slightly moved. plus the bright lights plus it was the first time seeing this doctor. and that is what built up to a melt down last time i went to the doctor

I almost forgot about the statement this new doctor made to me today. He said and I quote "You will probably live to be 90 or 100".

I hope he's right, but I don't know if the remark was appropriate. I had another doctor tell my that it was unusual for me to have all of my body parts several years OK. Just don't know why doctors make such statements.

Doctors are not bad but dentist...lets just say sensory nightmare! Yeah dental hygenists dont like working with me. They have to keep telling me to open my mouth repeatedly. All the sounds, the sensations drive, having to sit still drives me absolutely nuts.

• When he walks out of the examining room while I'm still describing my symptoms.
• When he gives a diagnosis or a prescription without an examination or tests.
• When he schedules examinations or tests for me without first consulting me.
• When he directs his receptionist to explain his diagnosis' and treatments to me.
• When he treats me like a list of systems and test results instead of a person.

That'll do for now...

I hate all of it. Strange people touching me. Everything is cold. The astronomical cost for them to say there is nothing wrong with me when I'm in a lot of pain. Years later and umpteen appointments later....oh so that's what's wrong with me....finally. but then other times I'm scared to death there is something seriously wrong, and then I'm relieved when they say its something minor.

I know. I hate getting invalidated when I know it HAS to be something.



that happens too! It feels great.