[dr461]

Originally Posted by Susie

You are all so lucky, ativan, xanx, NOTHING helps me, it makes me worse, the doctor in the ER couldn't believe how it did nothing.

You are also very fortunate to have doctors tell you outright that it is anxiety, mine, they beat around the bush, they insinuate it, but, they won't come right out and say it, I wish they woud.

Get different doctors. Yours are needlessly alarmist. Any skilled doctor can read a cardiogram, interpret an echo, or review holter results in minutes and know if something is serious or not, If they don't rush you into the operating room to have surgery, you know it is not serious, and they should communicate it, as anything serious and cardiac is dealt with IMMEDIATELY.

[Chaoticdopey]

Originally Posted by Susie

You are all so lucky, ativan, xanx, NOTHING helps me, it makes me worse, the doctor in the ER couldn't believe how it did nothing.

You are also very fortunate to have doctors tell you outright that it is anxiety, mine, they beat around the bush, they insinuate it, but, they won't come right out and say it, I wish they woud.

They don't want to come out with it because once they do you will probably leave and find a new doc, they don't wanna lose clientele.

and its funny while i was young the treated me for my ADHD with uppers like ritalin, and adderall, now all that speed is making me nuts now i'm stuck with downers like ativan, and valiums. i swear them having me on all of those damn amphetamine drugs when i was a kid probably messed my brain up and that's why i have such bad anxiety today, but that's just a thought, if my kids ever have ADHD i guess i'm stuck cause they are not geting any meds.

[Susie]

LOL, you are probably right.

Only one doctor, said one time, she was going to go out on a limb and say all of my problems were anxiety related. I wish she would say it again, I need to hear reassurances like that.

[CMoore416]

Really? So many of the Drs I've seen say it's anxiety and stress! One pediatrician even told me my daughters problems were due to MY stress....

[Jeff]

Seriously? I really doubt doctors are trying to string along a patient by not telling them the truth. Do you know how much doctors love seeing the worriers who call them and email them and schedule visits with them when the doctors know almost to a certainty that nothing is wrong with them? They don't. At all. They would rather be helping people with real issues.

My guess is that either her doc doesn't have the stones to suggest it, or for whatever reason doesn't think that's the case, or possibly thinks that's a problem out of his/her jurisdiction. But gravy training her? I doubt it.