Do medical appointments make you anxious?

Do you get nervous when you have doctor or other medical appointments? I tend to naturally have a spike in heart rate, which of course shows up on the pressure reader haha. But that's just the way it is for me - I'll always be a little nervous no matter what the appointment is for.

I don't feel anxious. I used to be afraid of school checkups when I was little but now I'm used to it

The only real fear was of needles and I am not afraid of them anymore.

It depends. Cancer appointments, yes. Others, no.

Horrifically so.

I had to start making them regularly due to developing a panic attack disorder. It definitely gets a little easier, but I still fret over having to physically visit medical offices. I'm due again in a few months >.>

Not really, in general. (Dislikes doing them, of course.) Increases a little just before hearing/reading results, perhaps.

As someone with anxiety, both medical appointments and dental appointments make me extremely anxious, I literally shake when I'm in the waiting rooms and I feel like my heart is pumping at the speed of sound, lol

I distinctly remember one doctor's appointment where they were unable to take my blood pressure because I was shaking with how anxious I was. I was perfectly fine, and it's funny looking back at myself now.

I tend to be more anxious in the waiting room than anything else, but I had a period where I was getting my blood taken and having tests run every... couple months or so? I ended up just having to get used to it and with how kind the people there were, that helped a lot.

Oh absolutely, I have a major tendency to overthink and I have anxiety so whenever I have to go to the doctors or what-not I go into panic mode ✨

I'm so used to them by now that they've basically just become part of life, I still get super nervous due to anxiety issues, but not nearly as much as I used to.

The major exceptions are trauma therapy because I know I'm about to re-live stuff I'd rather not think about, and brain MRIs. I am very claustrophobic and I had a huge full scale meltdown the last time I was all the way in the machine and they had to get me out as quickly as they could. I'm really, really, really, not looking forward to next time 😭

Not at all. I have a chronic pain condition and before I gave up diagnosing exactly what was wrong and decided to just treat the symptoms, I had sooo many doctors appointments that I became pretty immune to them. I suppose maybe if I had a new more serious issue crop up that would probably change, but for general things, I know how the appointments go and I've been there so many times that basically nothing makes me nervous. I think the only time I've been nervous for an appointment in the last long, long while is when I had to switch family doctors because I wasn't really sure if my new one would prescribe my restricted meds as easily, but it wasn't a problem and I'm back to my regular carefree appointments.

I get slightly nervous when I have to get blood drawn but mostly just because my veins are notoriously hard to find and the actual procedure tends to get me a little queasy, so I usually anticipate a couple false starts before they manage to get it done and it's not uncommon to need a few vials so it's usually just kind of a miserable experience. Back in university there was this little old lady who worked part time at the clinic I went to and I'd always go for bloodwork on the days she worked because she was SO good at it. Always one and done with her. But now that I get bloodwork much less frequently, it's a mixed bag as to what kind of experience I'll have. So I guess I'm kind of nervous when this happens but usually it's just resigned annoyance at what's likely to come lol.

When I was younger not so much as I was so used to the procedures and what I expected my doctors to say. Then my insurance changed my physicians and doctors and that was when I get very anxious each time I went for visits. I guess part of the reason is the new physicians and doctors are more demanding in checking all sorts of things lol.

Not really, it's pretty much standard routine for me now. I used to be concerned with the diagnosis, but now I'm like, "what may come, will come."

It depends on what will be done. If It's something that I know will be free from any physical discomfort or pain, then I will be fine. If say the doctor is going to go poking around inside of me though for a pelvic exam or the dentist wants to drill into my teeth, then just the thought of that is enough to make my skin crawl, and I will even postpone appointments out of fear of how it will feel.