p1234
11-11-2015, 03:17 AM
6 years ago I got a load of vertigo and eventually got a diag of meniere's disease. It eventually settled down but I never really felt like it was the right diagnosis. I still can't jump on trampolines or anything like that but I don't get vertigo any more really. However I constantly feel ill and have to miss social events and the like due to whatever hyperacusis or dizziness or whatever else I have at the time.
Then from Jan 2015 to May 2015 I started getting odd headaches, scalp numbness, feeling of swollen tonsils etc. Had to spend a couple of days in bed to avoid vertigo. When I saw the doc he couldn't offer any explanation. Saw him again and explained that I felt it all added up to something else, when you look at all the symptoms, it does look like MS, or depression or anxiety, or... lots of things fit all this. Including menieres.
That doc told me some things that were clearly rubbish so I saw another doc and he said these symptoms will not go away until you address the anxiety. I already told him that although I knew I was anxious about it it was really just anxious with the doctors because they never listen and just send me away without real interest in helping me. I gave him substantial pointers to possible underlying causes but that seemed to be ignored although he did do a few neuro tests on me.
Still I gave him the benefit of the doubt, I learned about anxiety, and slowly some of the symptoms subsided. But not all of them
Since then In the last 5 months or so I have had no CONSCIOUS anxiety or depression whatsoever, I've been mentally completely fine, still getting days when I feel ill, but whenever that happens or whenever symptoms pop up, I just ignore them and get on with it. I didn't spend any time googling symptoms or visiting health pages, just got on with life as best I could.
Yet still the symptoms come up and they seem to relate to muscle strains in the neck. Menieres attacks also correlate with that. I'm now 99% sure that I have some kind of impacted nerve probably in the neck and I think thats caused certainly the recent symptoms and probably also the more long term menieres symptoms.
But how on earth do you go to a doctor and say look, I've addressed the anxiety, I don't get depression any more, I've been ignoring symptoms and getting on with life, but the symptoms are still coming back ?
If I say that to the doctor why would he believe me ? For every 100 people with anxiety probably 99 of them struggle to accept it. Why would I be that one percent?
I'm just feeling really concerned (I didn't use the word anxious there) that they will just give me a load more BS about anxiety and not do the proper tests that could spot any problems.
How would you approach this ?
thanks
Then from Jan 2015 to May 2015 I started getting odd headaches, scalp numbness, feeling of swollen tonsils etc. Had to spend a couple of days in bed to avoid vertigo. When I saw the doc he couldn't offer any explanation. Saw him again and explained that I felt it all added up to something else, when you look at all the symptoms, it does look like MS, or depression or anxiety, or... lots of things fit all this. Including menieres.
That doc told me some things that were clearly rubbish so I saw another doc and he said these symptoms will not go away until you address the anxiety. I already told him that although I knew I was anxious about it it was really just anxious with the doctors because they never listen and just send me away without real interest in helping me. I gave him substantial pointers to possible underlying causes but that seemed to be ignored although he did do a few neuro tests on me.
Still I gave him the benefit of the doubt, I learned about anxiety, and slowly some of the symptoms subsided. But not all of them
Since then In the last 5 months or so I have had no CONSCIOUS anxiety or depression whatsoever, I've been mentally completely fine, still getting days when I feel ill, but whenever that happens or whenever symptoms pop up, I just ignore them and get on with it. I didn't spend any time googling symptoms or visiting health pages, just got on with life as best I could.
Yet still the symptoms come up and they seem to relate to muscle strains in the neck. Menieres attacks also correlate with that. I'm now 99% sure that I have some kind of impacted nerve probably in the neck and I think thats caused certainly the recent symptoms and probably also the more long term menieres symptoms.
But how on earth do you go to a doctor and say look, I've addressed the anxiety, I don't get depression any more, I've been ignoring symptoms and getting on with life, but the symptoms are still coming back ?
If I say that to the doctor why would he believe me ? For every 100 people with anxiety probably 99 of them struggle to accept it. Why would I be that one percent?
I'm just feeling really concerned (I didn't use the word anxious there) that they will just give me a load more BS about anxiety and not do the proper tests that could spot any problems.
How would you approach this ?
thanks