Anxiety and Multiple Sclerosis has been mentioned on many blogs I read. Until you have experienced this, it is all just words being read..
Anxiety can be manifested in many ways, or to me it is a cause and effect situation that is happening either in my mind, or playing out in reality.
Some examples, would be a change in insurance companies. One huge insurer bought out my plan. They have been doing this for the last ten years. Bigger companies swallowing up the smaller ones. A behind the scenes, the small ones are actually giant, like Walgreen, CVS, Rite Aid. They are now owned by giant companies overseas.
They make promises, but less and less medicines become available, or now need prior authorization, or a exception to their plan. They are playing Doctors, without a licence.
I have a great Dr support team, from UC Davis, that tries to ensure I obtain proper medication, and the amounts. But the Anxiety, and hours I spend, sometimes 4 hours with the insurance phone people to obtain meds creates anxiety.
Anxiety can also be created by other people. A elderly gentleman had my partner and I over. A simple haircut, and a computer check. He then said his insulin injections were acting up. He went into the other room, coughing. A RED flag for a imune compromised person with covid 19 killing over 500,000 people now in the USA.
He could of said, he was under the weather, could we come on a different day, but no. Possibly Exposing us, as one of the only times maskless.
He went to the clinic, who took his temperature, and said he was good. That was not a covid test we told him.
We self quarantined, having a covid test done five days later.
We gave him directions and registration on line. Then he wanted to come with us.. Hu??
Two days later our results came back negative. This was a major Anxiety for days. Every cough, or pain, you thought it could be covid.
Watching videos, our my favorite is our hummingbird.
Another example of a major anxiety, was a GP, who I never have seen, put into my chart a CKD diagnosis. I will talk about this in another blog, as I need to go into specifics. The Anxiety, was awaiting to get feed back from All my specialists that were being seen over a few month period.
The CKD, given in November 2020, I was not sure I would make it to 2021, as explained.
This of course got me a referral to a Nephrologist. A new specialist to add to my list. A good item.. A New GP was also given this year. This GP is more attentive to details, and listens, asking questions. She is like the First GP I had at UC Davis.
Another example is our Westie. She just turned five, but was diagnosed last year with Cushing disease. Yes quite common in older dogs. But a alarm went off with my partner and i , when we saw blood in her feces, with diahrreha. A call to the vet, and bringing her in for X-Ray and blood tests. Four hours later, we were able to bring her home. We got to explore the dollar tree, the supermarket and high prices, and a local coffee shop, sitting outside. Not much more is in town.
Anxiety can manifest in many ways. It can increase your blood pressure, your heart rate, Iratate your stomach, and more...
Which brought in a few more specialized Doctors, just to look at blood, blood flows, A Secondary Polycythemia going on per cancer Doctor.
This brings more tests, like a sleepover at the hospital, A plumagology test, and others I will talk about in future videos, and try to explain the making of blood.
Just take a deep breath I tell myself, and say its not just MS.
Stay safe, leave me any comments
joeY
