ChristaPeanut
Member
- Joined
- Apr 25, 2022
- Messages
- 17
- Reason
- DX FIBRO
- Diagnosis
- 03/2022
- Country
- US
I'm mostly feeling down today, which, thankfully I don't usually have full days of. I messaged some things to my rheum (i've been having some vasovagal syncope (which is fainting, but I don't actually faint, I just have to lay down immediately.) I work in healthcare (non clinical, I do medical coding but i've worked an arrangement of jobs in it for 18 years. It's just so frustrating getting no empathetic advice from my rheumatologist. She is just like," no that's fine. It happens to a lot of people. Maybe message your primary care doc about possibly your blood pressure." I've also been sweating a ton. I know it's summer but this has gotten worse over the past year and it's mostly at night. I also wanted to know if she thought it could be a cymbalta side effect or maybe even something affected by my morning coffee drinking. Spoiler alert: she doesn't think it's a side effect of anything. Her current practice isn't even managing new fibro patients; they're telling the primary care (GP) to do it. I apparently got in at the last minute. There is a doctor shortage that seems to be happening here. IT's three months to get into any kind of mental health place, and that is even just for counseling, not seeing a psychiatrist. I find it very difficult to read patient notes all day, plus deal with my own healthcare needs, and my husbands (he's a disabled veteran). I guess I am just burnt out. I live in the States and the healthcare system here was in a bad place BEFORE the pandemic and every one from top to bottom is burnt out and it's like I can just feel it all around. I'm thinking about switching my fibro care to my primary doc, but I know she will retire in a couple to a few years so I'm not sure I should do that. She is at least a lot more empathetic towards all my stuff. Anyways sorry this is long I just needed to get this all out.
Does anyone have issues with vasovagal syncope?
Does anyone have issues with vasovagal syncope?