Health anxiety
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Health anxiety
For someone who didn't care enough about health to stop drinking, I'm certainly making up for it. I have numbness and tingling hands and feet, mostly on my left side. Otherwise I'm fine and my pulse and blood pressure are good. I'm sober over 2 weeks and going to work. I suspect it's to do with an old prolapsed disc in my neck but I worry. I'm sorry I went to the doctors with withdrawals, they are so judgemental I am loathe to go in there. Anyone suffer with similar? I need to get this investigated but being worried I wanted to post here. Thanks for listening.
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There is no call for any medical professional or healthcare worker to pass judgement on you for doing the right thing to seek medical attention for something that can be FATAL! Those people do not have any right to treat you like that.
If they were my doctors I'd fire them and hire a whole team of new ones, with expertise in the treatment of alcoholism and with your symptoms I would also look into seeing a neurologist sooner than later. Numbness on one side can be a serious condition that should not be ignored.
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If they were my doctors I'd fire them and hire a whole team of new ones, with expertise in the treatment of alcoholism and with your symptoms I would also look into seeing a neurologist sooner than later. Numbness on one side can be a serious condition that should not be ignored.
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Daevid . . . first, congratulations on the two weeks.
Second, I encourage you to find a new doctor if you can. All patients need to feel that they can speak honestly and transparently with their doctor. Otherwise, they might withhold information necessary for their care. In the case of patients battling substance abuse this can be a matter of life or death.
You deserve to feel like you can trust your doctor.
Second, I encourage you to find a new doctor if you can. All patients need to feel that they can speak honestly and transparently with their doctor. Otherwise, they might withhold information necessary for their care. In the case of patients battling substance abuse this can be a matter of life or death.
You deserve to feel like you can trust your doctor.
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I've had numbness and tingling in my hands and feet since before I quit drinking. I still have it. I've had MRIs and stuff, no clue what might be causing it. Possibly it was alcohol-related, maybe not.
Doesn't hurt to go see a doctor, though.
Doesn't hurt to go see a doctor, though.
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