Had to move to the Bay Area for a full recovery. Developed allergic reaction over the period of 3 seasons to something and was causing a variety of issues. Doctors tried blame it solely on anxiety but established no causal relationship and very little very weak supporting evidence.
Super weak that I didn't have to argue for it to be removed from the medical record. DSM-5 has guidelines for it, so I'm unsure why any doctor, ER especially, would see partial criteria as being valid for diagnosing anyone with it.
Logic is the only thing I needed.
- If after taking allergy relief, no are no more ER visits clearly there is an allergy issue.
- If after moving to a different more remote area in the same city causes it to stop then it must be an allergy issue.
- If after moving out of that city to a more distant city along with no longer taking any medication causes it to stop, then it must be an allergy issue
- If after going back to said city after everything stopped causes partial symptoms to come back, then it must be an allergy issue.
- If after leaving said city again, that the symptoms fully abate after a period of time, then it must be a allergy issue.
I've done enough science here to establish an allergy diagnosis on my own. I've done the WORK, 99% probability at this point it is allergies and am done with suffering from doctor's lack of medical knowledge or flexibility. There's no point in convincing doctors who are set in their ways to believe anxiety is the root cause. I am no longer interested in hearing anxiety is the cause, go see a psychiatrist blah blah. You are literally insane if you believe anxiety is the root cause.
Trying to convince a patient is it is anxiety or whatever when you have not established a causal relationship is an uphill battle. This is exactly the kind of issue that causes people to DOUBT and become HIGHLY SKEPTICAL of the medical system. What happens when it is not what you say it is? As they say, doctors do not know everything and there is much to be learned about the human body. Tunnel vision, inflexibility and inexperience is what I expect from doctors now, so it doesn't even phase me when they are. They are consultants, so treat it as such.
How else are you going to protect your mind from developing anxiety or worry when doctors can be visibly and provably bad at their jobs. Anxiety can absolutely be induced by doctors trying to convince you of such. It is absolutely unethical to do this as it causes additional stress and worry. A doctor should reasonably be able to ask the patient if they agree it is anxiety based on causal relationships they have established otherwise just don't bother asserting it because there is no strong circumstantial evidence nor causal relationship. Patient can disagree, leave, get second, third opinions and leave it at that.
What specifically am I allergic to? No clue. Hickory? Cedar? Quest Diagnostics will be helpful here. I hope to find one of those being the allergic issue without taking antihistamines in the future. Generally just picking and doing tests myself have been insightful/helpful.
Back to developing HI STAKES Game. 😮💨