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Blackouts diagnosed as panic attacks

ClaireHig

Hello

I've been having blackouts since late 2008. I'm 35 now & have seen GPs about this many times since. Though I don't show my injuries, as I prefer to cover them up with make up/clothes. It's easier than being asked how it happened & having to say I don't know.

GP used to say that I needed to have a brain scan to rule out other problems. However due to ASD issues I've never been able to have a scan.

GPs record that my symptoms seem to fit with panic attacks/ anxiety. But they only did this after the Local Authority stopped trying to get a court order to remove my child. Which falsely allowed the LA to claim during court that my health could be worse.

I was made via court to attend a public talking therapy course. And later one-to-one sessions, these were over one & half years ago. Which itself I found traumatic. But this didn't help the specific issues though nor did it make the specific issues worse.

I'm sick of dropping things & missing what's going on. Or worse, myself dropping if I ignore weird warning signalls my body gives me. And my own mother claiming I just can't be bothered to pay attention, remember etc. And of claims that I can do things if I want to. I hate having to rush to the toilet for privacy when I feel the weird feeling I now know so well. Or worse if out having to rush into bushes to lay down out of public view.

I have accepted that it's anxiety/panic attacks. But what I don't get is why I've not been given any support. I don't know what to do.

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  • AddieThree said:

    Is there any possibility the blackouts may be epeleptic seizures?  re the brain scan - neurologist

    would need to do this test or similar to make a diagnosis.   if this is seizures can be conrollled with treatment.  From the symptoms you've described: memory loss, dropping things, "weird feeling" it sounds like this needs investigating.

    Thank you.

    I've been to neurology. I was taken by my child's social worker a few years ago. The social worker was trying to get a court order to remove my child. So I felt unable to speak freely & hid injuries. I had no one else to go with. And I only went as it was on my child's protection plan, which they were using to try to justify court. The neurologist said it didn't sound like epilepsy. And said as I refuse a scan, I could go down the talking therapy route. I agreed. But then talking therapy wrote to the neurologist getting him to request I go back to neurology. I didn't & GPs never asked me to have a scan. Though GPs still write anxiety/stress. They won't give me any treatment for it. They don't even acknowledge that my Asperger's is a problem.

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  • AddieThree said:

    Is there any possibility the blackouts may be epeleptic seizures?  re the brain scan - neurologist

    would need to do this test or similar to make a diagnosis.   if this is seizures can be conrollled with treatment.  From the symptoms you've described: memory loss, dropping things, "weird feeling" it sounds like this needs investigating.

    Thank you.

    I've been to neurology. I was taken by my child's social worker a few years ago. The social worker was trying to get a court order to remove my child. So I felt unable to speak freely & hid injuries. I had no one else to go with. And I only went as it was on my child's protection plan, which they were using to try to justify court. The neurologist said it didn't sound like epilepsy. And said as I refuse a scan, I could go down the talking therapy route. I agreed. But then talking therapy wrote to the neurologist getting him to request I go back to neurology. I didn't & GPs never asked me to have a scan. Though GPs still write anxiety/stress. They won't give me any treatment for it. They don't even acknowledge that my Asperger's is a problem.

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