I’m worried my doctor won’t take me serious because of my moms munchausens
16f 5’ 86lbs
My medical history is weird because my mom was actually making me sick and lying about stuff to my doctors for a while. Overall I’m actually mostly healthy but I do have epilepsy and adhd that are for sure confirmed so I take meds for those but I haven’t had a seizure in years. Like it’s been super long time and I only ever had one. I told my doctors when I realized what my mom was doing. Social worker got involved and yeah things are okay now but I haven’t had any big medical issues since all that. But now…
I’ve been getting these episodes where my chest feels heavy, and I feel cold and my skin is damp, and my heart beats feel weird, and I get sick to my stomach and lightheaded. I don’t know how to explain the heart beats. Kind of fast and soft I guess? But I can feel them really distinctly and it makes me feel really weird. This usually is happening when I’m trying to do something, like I biked home from school the other day and going up a hill I started feeling it and had to lay down on the grass by the side walk. It happened once when I was shampooing my hair in the shower too. My arms started feeling weak while I was scrubbing my hair and then it happened.
I’m kind of worried about it, it’s happening more often. I haven’t told my mom because I’m too nervous to and I don’t know how to handle telling her. But also I’m afraid my doctor isn’t going to believe me or take me seriously because of what my mom has done in the past. Plus it’s not like I can predict when it’s happening so it probably wouldn’t happen during an appointment so I can’t prove it.