I have a comorbid anxiety diagnosis along with bipolar, and it's hard to get a doctor to take me seriously.

A while ago I was having a lot of medical problems with my kidneys, and I started experiencing massive anxiety. I went to the ER twice with lithium toxicity, but when I got there, found it was just mild toxicity. The ER doc said I'd done the right thing but my doc thought I was overreacting. I started having chest pain later on and a racing heart, and it was only anxiety, but at the time, my doc said "I'm not going to send you for tests. I don't want to overmedicalize you." At the time I was getting several blood tests a week as well as urine tests to sort out the kidney problems, so I can kind of see her point, but at the same time now I feel like I can't go to her with problems.

I've been having various levels of pain in my right leg for a week now. I've always had problems with that achilles tendon, when I started walking as a toddler I walked on my toes and my achilles tendons never stretched enough to walk heel first on my right foot. I won't have time to see my doctor this coming week, I'm in a play, so I went to a clinic to get it looked at. The doctor basically told me to walk on it, said it was fine, and to take tylenol. I've been taking the max dosage of tylenol for a week and it's not helping. My achilles tendon aches and the pain radiates up the back of my calf. It keeps me awake at night.

I could go to my GP but she's the one who doesn't want to "overmedicalize" me so she'll probably say everything is fine too. But everything is not fine. My leg shouldn't be between a 7 and a 9 on the pain scale for a WEEK or more.

I feel like if I didn't have bipolar/GAD on my chart I'd get listened to.