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Suggest Remedy For Difficulty In Breathing When Suffering From Oesophagitis
i am suffering from oesophagitis confirmed by endoscopy, and particularly difficulty in breathing due to gerd. i said i am feeling pain in chest region particularly difficulty in breathig and i showed my reports. but one doctor said that it is my hallucination, i have physchitric disorder, i am suffering from depression, u concentrate more on work not on this. first change your attitude. i feeel very bad of his words. i got angry towards his words. i want to confirm am i reaLLY pschychotric patient from that day onwards my parents are treating me as a pschytric patient and giving me suggessions sugessions. i know oesophagitis is avery minute problem. i came for doctor to cure my minute problem. but doctor talked like anything.
Mon, 15 Mar 2021
Hi,
Psychosomatisation of symptoms is very much normal in cases of depression. Many a times it is really hard for the doctor to convince his patient about this. Feeling of increased symptoms of upper gastro-intestinal tract with shortness of breath is very much common with patients of depression. This is nothing bad.
It is not hallucination in your case, rather a delusion (it is feeling of enhanced symptoms and not the absence of symptoms). Labeling a patient as a patient of depression is not something bad, rather every third patient in outdoor practice is either suffering from anxiety / depression completely or accompanied by these symptoms along with his other complaints or symptoms.
Take care. Hope I have answered your question. Let me know if I can assist you further.
Regards,
Dr. Satnarain Bansal, General & Family Physician
Psychosomatisation of symptoms is very much normal in cases of depression. Many a times it is really hard for the doctor to convince his patient about this. Feeling of increased symptoms of upper gastro-intestinal tract with shortness of breath is very much common with patients of depression. This is nothing bad.
It is not hallucination in your case, rather a delusion (it is feeling of enhanced symptoms and not the absence of symptoms). Labeling a patient as a patient of depression is not something bad, rather every third patient in outdoor practice is either suffering from anxiety / depression completely or accompanied by these symptoms along with his other complaints or symptoms.
Take care. Hope I have answered your question. Let me know if I can assist you further.
Regards,
Dr. Satnarain Bansal, General & Family Physician
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