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Old Sep 24, 2014, 02:13 PM
Shining Shining is offline
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Isn't it terrible. haha.

I had 2 doctors yell at me. One was the neurologist thinking I was drug seeking and one was and ER dr. who basically dismissed me. He said tell me your symptoms I said I have numbness around the .....he cut me off and said there is no such thing as numbness, tell me your symptoms again. I said my eyelid and side of my face is...ummm...numb. He screamed if you say numb again I am walking out of here...try again one more time. I said ok, I have pressure...blah blah blah. He said I can't help you here - this is a primary doctor problem not mine. Then he told me to smoke some weed and maybe the symptoms will go away. Their attitudes do change with some of the doctors when they think it is anxiety. Another ER doctor I told my face was numb...blah blah blah....he listened and actually cared.

I almost called an ambulance once also when I thought it was heart attack. But my common sense said how will you get home if you go in ambulance? haha so drove myself.

Crazy all of it.

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Originally Posted by Disorder7 View Post
I called an ambulance once when I was sure I was about to perish. It looked enough like a heart attack to the paramedics that they were preparing nitroglycerin for me. But the EKG was reading normal, blood oxygen normal...when they learned I had a history of panic attacks they knew what it was. They still carried me to the ER on a stretcher, but it felt like their attitudes had changed. It was as if they felt like they should have been taking me to a psych ward instead.

Last edited by Shining; Sep 24, 2014 at 02:44 PM.
Thanks for this!
Disorder7