The other day when my son's dentist appointment was cancelled, I managed to get the last available appointment at the GP. My intention was to get anti-histamines because the over the counter ones aren't working and *might* have been making feel crappy (it has since been confirmed they were making me feel crappy and not the stress).
My main complaint was vertigo. I seem to get it much worse than usual every spring. Just walking makes me feel like I had a spot too much to drink with the room spinning. Whenever I've gone to the GP in the past with the same complaint, I just get palmed off saying it is stress (and it is no secret that I'm under some stress right now).
I wasn't expecting anything different. This time, I was told I likely had a viral infection and was dismissing feeling unwell as stress because that's all I've been told in the past (and then not allowed to handle whatever was causing the stress so I ended up very sick from stress in the past). I was given medication for the vertigo, in addition to the anti-histamines I went in for.
The difference between how I felt on Thursday when I went to the GP and Friday after taking prescription anti-histamine and the vertigo medication was amazing. I felt like a completely different person.
Then being told that I'm dealing with the stress in an appropriate manner. I already knew that, but with the amount of people who had been in my life who wouldn't let me deal with my problems, it still feels nice to hear it. Plus there's destructive people about within the horror community who project that outwards (and in Liverpool) and think that if someone is stressed or having problems, that because they handle it in a destructive manner (drinking, taking drugs, sex, etc.) that everyone does that. I'm hardly crying myself to sleep each night because I'm dealing with the source of the stress and not burying it or worrying about it.
I like this having access to medical treatment. It is way better than home remedies and the black market. I don't want this to go away for any reason. I don't want the NHS to collapse and I sure as Hell don't want to go back to a system like it was in the past where I was continuously denied medical care.
My main complaint was vertigo. I seem to get it much worse than usual every spring. Just walking makes me feel like I had a spot too much to drink with the room spinning. Whenever I've gone to the GP in the past with the same complaint, I just get palmed off saying it is stress (and it is no secret that I'm under some stress right now).
I wasn't expecting anything different. This time, I was told I likely had a viral infection and was dismissing feeling unwell as stress because that's all I've been told in the past (and then not allowed to handle whatever was causing the stress so I ended up very sick from stress in the past). I was given medication for the vertigo, in addition to the anti-histamines I went in for.
The difference between how I felt on Thursday when I went to the GP and Friday after taking prescription anti-histamine and the vertigo medication was amazing. I felt like a completely different person.
Then being told that I'm dealing with the stress in an appropriate manner. I already knew that, but with the amount of people who had been in my life who wouldn't let me deal with my problems, it still feels nice to hear it. Plus there's destructive people about within the horror community who project that outwards (and in Liverpool) and think that if someone is stressed or having problems, that because they handle it in a destructive manner (drinking, taking drugs, sex, etc.) that everyone does that. I'm hardly crying myself to sleep each night because I'm dealing with the source of the stress and not burying it or worrying about it.
I like this having access to medical treatment. It is way better than home remedies and the black market. I don't want this to go away for any reason. I don't want the NHS to collapse and I sure as Hell don't want to go back to a system like it was in the past where I was continuously denied medical care.