Latest / What's the Root Cause? by Dr Vikki Petersen
Are My Digestive Issues Actually from Anxiety?
Patients often ask how they can tell between "legitimate" digestion issues and anxiety. They want to know if the cause of their symptoms is "just anxiety" or something else.
With Hiatal Hernia Syndrome common symptoms include acid reflux, heart palpitations, shortness of breath and anxiety. But too often, while the reflux can be confirmed, visits to specialists fail to find anything wrong with your heart or lungs, and then when the complaint of anxiety or panic attacks is added to the list of symptoms, you can be labeled a patient with "health anxiety", thus dismissing your symptoms. It is…
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