Just been to GP - saw "hypochondriasis" on notes...

[TolpuddleFarter]

Been to see GP about some side effects I have had from a medication I was on.

Looked at the computer to see "hypochondriasis (3)" on my notes, which obviously is three times where it has been flagged that I am a hypochondriac.

Does this mean from now on I will struggle to get taken seriously?

I think, maybe, the OP is upset with the actual word hypochondriac. It’s outdated and has been used in a derogatory way for years ‘Oh here comes Auntie Pam, such a hypochondriac always moaning about some health issue or other haha!’. Many people don’t fully understand that illness/health anxiety is a genuine mental health problem, it’s bloody draining and can take over your life and quality of it. I have suffered from it (and generalised anxiety) for most of my life. The few people who you would like to take it seriously are medical professionals and it’s upsetting when they are still using out dated terminology. No mental health organisations would call it that anymore.
And hard core exercise is obviously great for health but does not help long standing/chronic overwhelming anxiety, not in my case anyhow. I fast walk for at least an hour a day and run on my treadmill each day too but still suffer from debilitating anxiety.

I have spinal problems and the twitch I even twitched during the MRI scan, twenty minutes long. But it beats the agonising spasms that I had before meds.

Think to yourself @TolpuddleFarter as my MIL alwayy said. "I'm not dead yet".

So if you're not terminally ill, you're winning.

ReformedWaywardTeen · Today 14:15
That GP was a monster.
You deserve compensation and he should be struck-off. He could have killed you with that suicide causing drug too.

I don’t know whether it is or not, but judging by many comments this is a legitimate, widely recognised medical issue, therefore whilst I can see why it’s upsetting it should absolutely be recorded in your notes. In fact, I’d go as far as to say it would be more concerning if it wasn’t there. After all, if you had diabetes, IBS or any other multitude of legitimate, widely recognised medical issues they would be there.

Drama llama 😂

TolpuddleFarter · Today 12:33
Look into alternative remedies for twitching including certain Vitamins.

Yes absolutely this, my maternal notes were altered to make me seem like an hysterical woman (this seems really common) it’s now all starting to come out with the maternal health reviews.

Download the myGP app if you don’t already have it and access your account using your NHS number and view your medical record on there. It may say you need to request access to your full record from your surgery, in my case I just emailed the surgery reception and they granted it and I could then see everything that’s ever been written about me. I would do this in the first instance to confirm this is actually what’s been written and see if there are any further notes surrounding it and then go from there.

Actually it’s not being a drama llama. I’ve been given drugs that are suicide inducing.

I have PTSD caused by medical “professionals”, I would say 90% of doctors are shit, they have zero understanding of mental health and give zero fucks about their patients. Many of them are professionally incompetent,

I work on the basis that like HMRC they wrong until they can prove otherwise.

Fluoxetine had dreadful nausea with for a few weeks but I persevered because I was in a bad place with panic attacks. The nausea subsided and the panic attacks reduced and disappeared.

You have to weigh up a couple of months of side effects against the benefits of living a normal life.

I’m really sorry you had a shit experience, but characterising 90% of doctors as shit is completely unbalanced

Agreed

@justasking111

You'll probably live to be a 100 though op, you won't enjoy it but you'll outlive peers.

This. Real clinical "hypochondria" can be extremely distressing and debilitating.

What do you base this on?

I’ve had the twitching thing, OP, including extreme twitching during the day. I felt similar when I saw they had written “psychosomatic” on my notes.

A friend of mine who works in a neurological physiotherapy department said that it was good to take vitamin B supplements and probably vitamin D as well, especially if you’ve had blood tests that suggest yours is low.

In addition to using magnesium sometimes at bedtime, I also use a meditation app (I use Calm, but there are others). I find it really helps and as well as meditations for getting to sleep, there are ones for getting back to sleep when you’ve woken.

Exercise is also good, but with the meditation, I enjoy going to bed, even if I don’t immediately get to sleep.

Hope you can get it resolved soon. Lack of sleep is debilitating and twitching all the time is tiring in itself.

Nothing like a fresh doughnut especially a hot one fresh out of a fryer at a fair. Lush 😋😋

Using ellipses instead of proper sentence structure… using kinda like some sort of valley girl… picking on other people’s manner of speaking or writing then calling them a mean girl… hmm…

I love doughnuts from fairs too (no wonder I'm a fatass lol) but I thought it was a biscuit! 😄😃

They used to call hypochondriac patients creaking gates who would despite this go on to old age

23 years in healthcare.

I agree with this

You’ve admitted you are a hypochondriac and have no instances where you think you were treated unfairly by a doctor so I don’t understand what the issue is.

I have the twitch spinal nerve damage it's bloody annoying but not terminal. So I count my blessings.