To Medical populace: Have you Ever Seen Someone Misdiagnosed With a Psychological Problem, When In Fact the -?
Answers: I be diagnosed with an anxiety disorder when after 5 YEARS, next to the help of a doctor friend, my symptoms be found to be an h. pylori infection. I was given a one week dose of a few different antibiotics and I be perfectly fine. BUT, for 5 YEARS I believed I have anxiety. My initial presenting symptomology was: gnaw stomach pain, vomiting, and constant nausea (when I wasn't throwing up).
I lost mass, ripped my esophagus a lot, visit the hospital many times for injectable anti-emetics, my tongue be worn away by the vomiting, I *became* hopeless and anxious as a result of having to function consciousness this way--very difficult to be able to *think* and *concentrate* while this under the weather all the time, to dance to class, do scholastic presentations and find excuses, in these and adjectives other situations, to leave and vomit. I thought this be going to be my reality, forever.
In PS to these examples of additional physical and psychological effects that arose as a result of this "mistake", self continually nauseous for this long, impacted EVERYTHING from my social relationships to my financial situation. I dried up time and money on hopping from doctor-to-doctor, hoping someone would *listen*, on scripts that did not work (for the supposed "anxiety" and other misdiagnoses) with significant side effects (e.g., seizure, peripheral neuropathy), that be not needed; also, much time and money on conservatory tuition that was needed to prolong things while ailing. I also developed a reputation at the school, among doctors, even next to friends and family as a "whiner". My doctor's deem me in "denial" of a psychological disorder.
Worst part of the pack of all this be how this type of diagnosis halted any investigation into any valid physical problem, how it coloured everything, and STILL does everytime I see a doctor who is privy to this misdiagnosis, no matter how much time have elapsed. It feels resembling doctors are still looking for evidence to make what be a misdiagnosis into a correct diagnosis.
In addition, even when it be blaring obvious, after the leadership of antibiotics, that a mistake was made surrounded by diagnosis, there be no admission of a "mistake". It be covered up and justified as what be needed to make a correct diagnosis, which they without a doubt can NOT take credit for, anyhow.
Hope this help :-)
EDIT: I'm definitely not holding my breathe. Far from it. Diagnosis="Anxiety" is already written contained by stone, you see. Erasers don't work on stone :-) :-). Too many ramification for THEM (like it was EVER in the order of them) associated with admit a "mistake". Plus, too much time and energy already gone into justification.
EDIT 2: Yup, another consequence of a psychological diagnosis.
I was diagnosed by answering "yes" to a few nonspecific questions, most to do near nausea, what I felt close to trying to function while nauseous, and how long this have gone on. Then, basically, I be sent on my mary-way with Paxil. No standardized carrying out tests, no psychologist, no "counselling" offered.
After this, no other doctors asked questions. The initial "diagnosis" (<==notice the unkind quotes) was standard as "sacred", as the truth, as something that explained everything....
I have see someone diagnosed w/bipolar disorder when they in reality had a hormonal disparity.
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