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Anxiety about upcoming Angiogram
Heart & Blood Health | Last Active: Mar 22 6:23pm | Replies (27)Comment receiving replies
@gregy I did have a lot of anxiety. I was the kid who passed out at the doctor or dentist for years and thought I would always have a problem with that. I worked to figure out why I had this anxiety. Every day when I woke up and thought about spine surgery back at the beginning, my blood pressure shot up. I worried about what the anxiety was doing to me, and that is when I started to change it. I did have anxiety problems over anticipated pain for many years. I found a way to change it so fear no longer controls me. I wanted you to know it can be done. That's also a big reason why I participate here on Connect.
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My needle phobia was so extreme that if a Doctor asked me to have a blood test, I just refused, because I just couldn't do it. Then in 2010 I had a heart attack and also found out that I had a rare Nephrological disorder called "Gitelman Syndrome" At that time I had both a Cardiologist and Nephrologist sticking me with multiple needles, as traumatic as it was at the time, it has desenitized me somewhat. I can now have a blood test (still difficult) but no longer feel like I will faint and don't have to lie down for 10 minutes afterwards and have a drink of water (I still lie down during the procedure, just in case). Vaccinations, local anaesthetics are no problem - but a needle into a vein - blood draw, canula especially! or the worst one of all the Aterial Blood Gas, still send me into a spin. I have to get a blood test on Friday and I think I will be OK