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 Posted: Sun Aug 14, 2005 8:07 pm
I was just thinking about going to the doctor on Wednesday and like I mentioned in the chat sticky, I am totally freaking aweful when it comes to going to the doctor. I get really freaked out and even if it's a doctor I really like (which I normally don't have the same doctor), if I'm in a bad mood, haven't eaten enough, anything pretty much, I'll cry practically from the minute I walk into the office. I can go to hospitals and stuff, even though I despise them, but just sitting in a doctor's office makes me want to get up and walk out. Being there and especially talking to the doctor makes me feel horrible, like I've done something wrong and am about to be punished for it, especially if I'm sick. When I'm going for check-ups I don't seem to get quite as nervous... sometimes. Or I guess sometimes I'm just better at controling my crying reflex. Does anyone else have anything that really freaks them out like that? Would drinking some chamomile tea or something before I go help me to relax? I don't know why I get so wierd. Telling myself that it's not a big deal totally doesn't help. Plus the crying makes me embarrassed so I want to go even less the next time. I haven't always been like that, I don't think so at least. I can't remember going to the doctor when I was little, though I know I did.
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Posted: Sun Aug 14, 2005 9:34 pm
I scream and throw a sobbing, fighting, biting fit when someone comes near me with a needle. Honestly? They have to sedate me. What I recommend is don't try to convince yourself it isn't a big deal. Obviously, to you, it is. If you push down the panic, it'll only come up harder when it's happening. Let yourself be upset- but don't let yourself give in to that upset. Crying is alright- if you want, explain to your doctor how you feel, and maybe he'll come to your house instead of you going to the clinic. If you must go, give yourself something to rely on. Take a piece of knitting, a water bottle, a journal or a sketchbook. When you start to panic, put your energy to work on that- take a sip of water, knit a row on a scarf, doodle on a page of a notebook or sketch. And, yes, explain to your doctor what you feel. It might be that he can work something out with you. And if worse comes to worse, valium can be your friend.
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Posted: Sun Aug 14, 2005 10:09 pm
Hehe. I was thinking about trying a lollipop and a book. I hope that now that I'm a civilian I can find a nice doctor to see all the time. I had the same doctor for a little bit when I was really sick and I went to see him all the time till the military (of course) sent him to Afghanistan. I still got upset when I went to see him sometimes just because I do but it was a lot easier because I liked him and I trusted him. He never made me feel bad about crying, he was always really nice and sympathetic about it, which made it stop faster. I could actually tell him about things without my throat wanting to close up and I knew that he'd listen without being judgemental or thinking I was faking or exagerating. The doctors I saw before I got really bad with the hives and stuff and went to see the nice guy all treated me like I was making a big deal out of a bad cold and told me to keep doing my regular PT and stuff. (Generally a lot of running in crappy weather.) I went in for my chest hurting and having a cold like 6 times in a couple months before I got the hives from pnemonia/doxycyline. If only you could sue military doctors while you're in...
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Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2005 4:12 pm
Nemone Hehe. I was thinking about trying a lollipop and a book. I hope that now that I'm a civilian I can find a nice doctor to see all the time. I had the same doctor for a little bit when I was really sick and I went to see him all the time till the military (of course) sent him to Afghanistan. I still got upset when I went to see him sometimes just because I do but it was a lot easier because I liked him and I trusted him. He never made me feel bad about crying, he was always really nice and sympathetic about it, which made it stop faster. I could actually tell him about things without my throat wanting to close up and I knew that he'd listen without being judgemental or thinking I was faking or exagerating. The doctors I saw before I got really bad with the hives and stuff and went to see the nice guy all treated me like I was making a big deal out of a bad cold and told me to keep doing my regular PT and stuff. (Generally a lot of running in crappy weather.) I went in for my chest hurting and having a cold like 6 times in a couple months before I got the hives from pnemonia/doxycyline. If only you could sue military doctors while you're in...
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Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2005 3:25 am
Eheh.. I learned recently that I have a bit of a incompetence phobia. I cant stand being incompetent at anything. If I learn im not good at it I will obsess on doing it for weeks even months at a time till I know I can kick a** at it. Eheh.. sweatdrop
My example,
HTML. I had found out... i suck at html. And I cant stop practicing otherwise I get pissy.
Another,
I found out I wasnt very strong cause I lost a fight a few years back. And I was obsessed with training. My 'excuse' for that was being afraid to not be able to defend the people I care about. I guess I kinda do still have that one. Just not severly.
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Posted: Thu Aug 18, 2005 2:44 pm
Chris Silverwind Eheh.. I learned recently that I have a bit of a incompetence phobia. I cant stand being incompetent at anything. If I learn im not good at it I will obsess on doing it for weeks even months at a time till I know I can kick a** at it. Eheh.. sweatdrop My example, HTML. I had found out... i suck at html. And I cant stop practicing otherwise I get pissy. Another, I found out I wasnt very strong cause I lost a fight a few years back. And I was obsessed with training. My 'excuse' for that was being afraid to not be able to defend the people I care about. I guess I kinda do still have that one. Just not severly. That's obsessive, not phobic. A phobia is an unexplained or extreme terror of something. If you were phobic of failure, you would never try anything out of sheer terror you would fail.
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Posted: Tue Aug 23, 2005 8:35 pm
yeah, the appointment went all right (I use this very generously) but I think the doctor was uncomfortable because any time he touched me I acted like he was torturing me. I think I can handle going better if I know nobody is going to touch me. I hate when they poke at me the worst. And this time I had to get a pap smear and breast exam which made it harder than normal. Normally I can calm down once I realize that nothing bad is going to happen but to me pap smears and breast exams and stuff ARE bad. I always feel like I'm being degraded having some stranger touch me. It's so freakin gross. I always want to chop off their hands with an axe because they had the nerve to touch me.
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Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2005 6:07 am
I don't mind doctors, I just hate needles. gonk
I think my problem is my sensitive skin. I have a small scar from every needle I've had in my entire life. >.<
The last time I had to get a needle, I cried so much and for so long, I nearly brought on an asthma attack while in the hospital. ^^;;
After 20 minutes of crying, and not letting anyone near me, I was given a warning. If I didn't let them take blood, they'll pin me down and take it...
So I caved. sweatdrop
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Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2005 7:51 pm
Dark Shamaness I don't mind doctors, I just hate needles. gonk
I think my problem is my sensitive skin. I have a small scar from every needle I've had in my entire life. >.<
The last time I had to get a needle, I cried so much and for so long, I nearly brought on an asthma attack while in the hospital. ^^;;
After 20 minutes of crying, and not letting anyone near me, I was given a warning. If I didn't let them take blood, they'll pin me down and take it...
So I caved. sweatdrop I didn't cave. Trust me- always cave. The straps can hurt and the nurse isn't gentle anymore holding you. The needle guy is nice, but the rest of it makes it so worse.
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Posted: Sun Aug 28, 2005 11:35 am
Kyoki Marie Dark Shamaness I don't mind doctors, I just hate needles. gonk
I think my problem is my sensitive skin. I have a small scar from every needle I've had in my entire life. >.<
The last time I had to get a needle, I cried so much and for so long, I nearly brought on an asthma attack while in the hospital. ^^;;
After 20 minutes of crying, and not letting anyone near me, I was given a warning. If I didn't let them take blood, they'll pin me down and take it...
So I caved. sweatdrop I didn't cave. Trust me- always cave. The straps can hurt and the nurse isn't gentle anymore holding you. The needle guy is nice, but the rest of it makes it so worse. Am I the only one who doesn't have problems with needles? All I need is to tense up my muscles or squezze something like a hand or or a stress ball and I'm fine. Of course, I can't tense my muscles enough to get rid of the pain 100%, but I can numb the pain somewhat. You could take Ibuprofin or Aspirin to help with the pain too.
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Posted: Mon Aug 29, 2005 12:50 pm
Sunstar333 Kyoki Marie Dark Shamaness I don't mind doctors, I just hate needles. gonk
I think my problem is my sensitive skin. I have a small scar from every needle I've had in my entire life. >.<
The last time I had to get a needle, I cried so much and for so long, I nearly brought on an asthma attack while in the hospital. ^^;;
After 20 minutes of crying, and not letting anyone near me, I was given a warning. If I didn't let them take blood, they'll pin me down and take it...
So I caved. sweatdrop I didn't cave. Trust me- always cave. The straps can hurt and the nurse isn't gentle anymore holding you. The needle guy is nice, but the rest of it makes it so worse. Am I the only one who doesn't have problems with needles? All I need is to tense up my muscles or squezze something like a hand or or a stress ball and I'm fine. Of course, I can't tense my muscles enough to get rid of the pain 100%, but I can numb the pain somewhat. You could take Ibuprofin or Aspirin to help with the pain too. I wonder why, seriously? Why do some people have these phobias and others not? It isn't like I intially had any trauma to cause the phobia. I know they're "genetic", using the term loosely. They're part of the "nurture" effect. My mom was afraid of needles. I saw her be afraid of them and I became afraid. Same with spiders. I'm hoping when I have kids to -not- be afraid of these things, in order to not pass that along.
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Posted: Mon Aug 29, 2005 5:09 pm
It's ironic, I can get lab work done all day long. I can just sit there while I get like 5 shots or get like eight tubes of blood taken. I've even done that glucose test thing a couple of times when I was pregnant last time and gotten blood taken more than once in a period of a few hours. It doesn't phase me, neither do sonograms done by technicians. The only thing that I really hate is doctors. I hate talking with them and I REALLY hate having them touch me, like I said. It IS wierd how people have phobias and stuff. I guess it's just part of the complexity of the human brain. Too bad we don't have any phsychologists in our guild. whee
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Posted: Tue Aug 30, 2005 7:54 pm
Nemone It's ironic, I can get lab work done all day long. I can just sit there while I get like 5 shots or get like eight tubes of blood taken. I've even done that glucose test thing a couple of times when I was pregnant last time and gotten blood taken more than once in a period of a few hours. It doesn't phase me, neither do sonograms done by technicians. The only thing that I really hate is doctors. I hate talking with them and I REALLY hate having them touch me, like I said. It IS wierd how people have phobias and stuff. I guess it's just part of the complexity of the human brain. Too bad we don't have any phsychologists in our guild. whee "oddly sis...the thought of a doctor..a stranger...touching me at all...makes me want to like puke. I'm not paranoid of doctors, but i don't want them to touch me either. >.o so we somehow got the same phobia.....i wonder if that's part of why i'm still a virgin at 22....i don't like people touching me. Even kat who i've known for 5 years, If she wants to like poke me or wresle. i always tell her to cut it out. Can't stand it....i can handle needles just fine...and dental work....." "the only other thing that will totally freak me out is my roach paranoia. Sometimes if i see one and it totally freaks me out i can't sleep for fear of it touching me." -_-'
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Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2005 10:44 pm
haha, when I see bugs in my apartment I suddenly have the urge to disinfect EVERYTHING. It's sort of funny. If my husband wants me to clean the apartment all he'd have to do is put out fake roaches or something. Hehe.
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Posted: Fri Sep 02, 2005 10:25 pm
Nemone haha, when I see bugs in my apartment I suddenly have the urge to disinfect EVERYTHING. It's sort of funny. If my husband wants me to clean the apartment all he'd have to do is put out fake roaches or something. Hehe. "lol unless your like me and your afraid cleaning might unearth a roach and you dont' want to touch it and it strikes terror in your heart at the mere sight or it (whether it's dead or not). Damn roaches.." whee
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