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I have suffered with nausea, dizziness, pain, headaches, panic attacks, trouble leaving the house, insomnia and other symptoms for years only to be ignored, dismissed and made to feel I am an inconvenience for who knows what reason. For months I have only managed to eat a sandwich a day, now only half a wrap, which I have to force down so I don’t actually collapse, only for it to try to come straight away back up my throat. Im weak, exhausted shaky. Lost a lot of weight too. I have also been rushed out of one female drs office when I hadn’t even finished telling her everything that was going on. At the time I was asking how you tell panic attack symptoms from heart attack symptoms, a valid question in my circumstances, she was basically telling me you don’t while holding the door open for me to leave. Mental health is a joke being told to go to councillors again, when my last councillor told me I would need to pay privately for the kind of in-depth therapy I need. To which whoever the rude female dr was said, that’s not true so basically calling me a liar. I was told that me trying to distract myself when I’m struggling, ie count trees that kind of thing to help me was wrong Well that’s what your surgery told me to do in the first place. So after that counselling was done it had just brought everything that has ever had a negative effect on me to the surface again and then I was left to deal with that on my own as my time allocated sessions were over, I can’t afford private. And I don’t want to go over everything again with multiple strangers when they know my history at the Clements. I contacted for mental health again, which I might add takes me a long time for me to do because of how I’m treated. I wanted to ask for a medication change as I had been on my meds for years and I know you can get to a point where it’s not working properly for you. But what they then realised was they had put me on a dangerous amount of medication over the years, so when they realised this she led me to believe they were weaning me off all my meds to change them. I might add this was the first time I have ever asked for my meds to be changed. What they actually did was took me off some medication, not all, and then refused to change or add anything else because I won’t go to counselling. Also bringing up medical issues from 25-30 years ago! I really do not understand what that has to do with anything going on with me now it’s completely unrelated. Also another doctor asked me what medication I wanted? My reply was I don’t know I’m not the doctor you are, his response was, exactly. Great response. The fact being, yes I’m on high dose meds, but my argument is that I know there are lots of different types of medications out there that could potentially help me and I’m being denied the help.Obviously this had a detrimental effect on me. I have lost all confidence in all medical people now thanks to them. Which is now stopping me seeking medical care. Oh and I must not forget, when I phoned the surgery one time, because when doing an e consult it flashed up to phone the surgery because of my symptoms, the receptionist told me to change my answers until it let me complete the form, and to put everything in the first box as that is all the drs read. So to me anyone who looks at those e consult forms it looks like my symptoms are not as bad as they were. How is that the right way to fill in a medical help form
