Posted by lostsailor on July 12, 2003, at 8:29:47
In reply to question abt. should i be honest with my dr.?, posted by bookgurl99 on July 12, 2003, at 7:54:35
>>Should I be honest, or just present these symptoms? <<IMHO, YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Even though we all run the risk of being overloaded with med, at the same time we can't not be honest about your symptoms. I am "assuming," and I may be wrong for my wording/whatever but you know what I mean, that you are totally "out" and maybe bringing you g/f with you to help explain may help. It might be good for advocacy and easing any anxiety.
As for not sleeping and anxiety, I am fairly certain that a sleeping will not throw off sleep test results and I KNOW that if I had to sleep in a lab I would need one.
You are bright and forthright here, be the same in the astute and sometimes condescending world of medicine and HMO's, but don't blow it off. You might even want to summarize it all on paper and rehearse what you want to say or present the paper. I know that totally freaked and knowing I may misarticulate things or forget to say them at all, I have given docs notes and had great results partly due to the part that I can read it later and "see" that I sad all I wanted.
Keep up all your hard work.
Hugs and prayers,
~tony
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