Does anyone else turn into a wobbly Victorian when they need to see the doctor?

[TesstheTimid]

"Wobbly Victorian" was a phrase used by a Mumsnetter a while ago and I thought it an apt description!

Anyone else go a bit shaky at having to see their GP - or any other HCP for that matter? Or do you just breeze in to the surgery and not sit there looking at all the posters on the wall and getting all the symptoms they warn about

Am a wobbly Victorian too, I go all humble and twitchy and come out with weird shit.
In real life I am not like this.

No, but what a brilliant phrase!!

I go a bit bluff and hearty, desperate to show I am not a malingerer
'Thought I'd better pop in with this - I'm sure it's nothing - just a scratch'

Nah, my dad was a GP, he used to say diagnosis was 50% guess work, 50% luck!

Yup. I have severe health anxiety and avoid doctors like the plague. I can't read anything health related as I know I'll play it back to me :(

Second to bluff and hearty Kurri but just on the outside. Inside feeling all wobbly and victorian.

kurrikurri I’m the same by the time I’ve explained what’s wrong with me I’m practicality back out the door going ‘actually there’s nothing wrong with me as you were’ even if I’ve got an arm hanging off or something.

Yep, that's me too. Despite the fact I used to be a bloody nurse!

I’ve heard it termed ‘white coat syndrome’ on here too! Never heard it before Mumsnet. I always get incredibly nervous before any medical appointment, even just a simple dental check up. No idea why, I just hate it.

Conjures up images of Rita’s sidekick in the cabin (think her name was Thelma) many years ago in Corrie.

I get incredibly nervous and very wobbly! I’ve had so many bad experiences now I dread every appointment and get so relieved at the smallest sign of any kindness!

My (otherwise textbook) blood pressure goes up like mad in the presence of a HCP. Particularly difficult in pregnancy when people are twitchy about high blood pressure and heart rate.

Not really, after two fairly traumatic births with rooms full of people I'm not massively bothered. But I do apparently have 'needle phobia'. I don't think I have needle phobia, I just have to insist on lying down before injections or blood tests or a faint in a heap on the floor.

Unfortunately I've had far too many appointments over the years due to being diagnosed with a chronic condition so it doesn't bother me in the slightest. Not that I go to my GP much at all, it's usually regular consultant appointments. However when it comes to the dentist it's a different story, I'm a wreck, even though I go every 3 months (alternating check up and hygienist).

I go all humble and twitchy and come out with weird shit

My voice goes all breathy!

I go a bit bluff and hearty, desperate to show I am not a malingerer

It took me a few visits over a number of years to realise that when the GP asks me "how are you?", they're not being chatty - they want to know what I'm there for rather than me smiling winsomely and saying "I'm fine thanks"

Rachie - health anxiety really is the pits.

I almost make a script before i go.. telling myself ill go in all confident and tell them all the details and itll be fine.
I get there and become this shy sheepish thing that plays down whats wrong and forgets most of my symptoms until im home again.

I like to have a good Google before I go as I'm sure HCPs appreciate my self-diagnosis and suggestions for treatment and medication! Don't know why they bother with all that training really ....

I'm of the I'm fine thanks while blushing furiously and desperately trying to cover up the severed limb type

Oh God! Dr Sarah is on Jeremy Vine just now discussing awful inner ear and balance problems

Our GP is an old family friend so not bothered by him at all and once you've spent long periods in ICU you forget about any loss of dignity. Hospitals freak me out. I shake at the thought. I almost died following fairly routine, albeit major surgery due to a surgeon's negligence.

Haha what a brilliant phrase. I am like this too. I get nervous for some bizarre reason and sometimes feel slightly guilty and embarrassed to be there even though I only go to the doctor if I really have to. I have actually welled up a couple of times for no apparent reason when I’ve been trying to explain what the problem is and got slightly flustered

I'm fascinated by people who don't get stressed by a trip to the surgery!

I avoid anything medical at all! An absolute nightmare. My BP would shoot up every time I went to midwife, and even ended up in hospital because my pulse was so fast. Pure white coat syndrome.
I also try and diagnose myself and just get the GP to agree e.g. so, I know I have tonsillitis, could you just have a quick look
I also think everything ends in death. Was given an ECG as pulse when pulse was fast and I automatically thought I had an undiagnosed heart problem.
I am so pleased to read others get as stressed to.
Wobbly Victorian Club!

Too not to. I have not diagnosed myself with Poor Grammaritis. Yet.

A wobbly Victorian 😂
I don't mind for general things but I seem to become the ultimate prude when it comes to getting my bits out unless I'm giving birth. I need to go for my smear but I keep making the excuse that "I only had a baby 6 months ago, my fanny is still angry with me".