Panic Attack Therapy and Questions to Expect from Your Doctor
Maybe you have tried several treatments, tips and tricks for stopping your panic attacks, but so far, nothing has helped. If this is the case, you may now need to seek professional help, which, by itself can engender anxiety, but you can prepare yourself by understanding some of the things that you can expect by when you do.
Take any journal or diary that you have kept related to your attacks with you – it will help you a lot when filling out forms. You will need to answer a lot of questions, and to provide a great deal of information to your doctor, so try to do so as accurately as you can. Some representative questions you will be expected to answer, and information you will be required to provide are provided below.
List the types of illnesses and surgeries you have had in the past. It may be hard to remember the dates, but be as accurate as you can.
Information on any traumatic events that you remember experiencing, and that may still make you uncomfortable to think about will help your doctor, so think about things that have affected you such as your children moving away to go to college, the death of someone close to you, a breakup or divorce, or a natural disaster by which you were deeply affected.
Providing an accurate list of medications (and the dosage for each) that you are taking, or have taken over the last six months or so is going to be very important.
Your doctor will want to know if anyone in your family used to have, or currently has panic or anxiety attacks.
Your doctor is going to ask you about the amount of alcohol you consume either daily, weekly or monthly, and you should answer this one honestly, even if it is uncomfortable to do so, because alcohol triggers attacks.
As with the questions related to alcohol consumption, be prepared to provide honest answers regarding whether you use recreational drugs, because, again, some of these may actually trigger attacks.
How much coffee, or caffeinated soda or other beverages do you drink on a daily basis? What happens if you don’t get your morning cup of coffee; for example, do you get a headache, or are you too tired to function without it?
You will need to describe how you know a panic attack is coming and how often you feel stressed or anxious, and this is another set of questions that your journal can help you answer.
If you know what your triggers are, be prepared to describe them in detail to your physician. Let’s say that you get anxious when riding in an elevator, or you get heart palpitations whenever you get behind the wheel of your car – these things are important for your doctor to know.
If you forget to tell your doctor something during your first visit, that’s okay, just let them know the next time, and just remember to be as thorough and honest as you can be when answering all the questions your doctor asks.
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