Posted by bookgurl99 on July 12, 2003, at 7:54:35
Uh .. . I went to see my psychiatrist this week for questions that I thought were psychological related. Based on my symptoms, he thought I should go get tested for sleep apnea and an EEG.
The one symptom he really focused on was that I get 'migraines' that affect my cognition and leave me feeling sleepy for up to a week afterwords. The last one left me with blurry vision in my left eye, and slowed reading capacity -- this type of thing has happened before, with a return to slighly lower than my old cognition. My pdoc wanted to make sure these are not a type of seizure.
The thing is, I had an EEG test for seizure last year -- at a different clinic. But I could not fall asleep due to anxiety during the test. The test came out fine.
I am quite anxious about this whole thing. Should I be honest with my dr. about the old testing that was done? I also had an MRI done, which showed nothing significant at that time.
However, the folks at that clinic did not believe my symptomology. I think they could have blown off any minor abnormalities in my test. (No one believed at the time; now, over a year later, and less personally anxious, even my therapist acknowledges there's a 'difference' in me.) And my GP _is_ befuddled some minor abnormalities in my neuro reflexes.
I'm fearful that if I bring up my medical history, my m.d. will blow off the suggestion that I go for further testing. Instead of being used as evidence of a continuing problem and need for testing, my continued symptoms will be viewed as a reason to put me on stronger psych meds.
Should I be honest, or just present these symptoms?
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