The doctors that my uncle is seeing keep prescribing him medicines to treat anxiety disorders. However, he always only has one chief concern: abdominal pain. Why do they all write him medicines like depran, petril, clonazepam? He never complains about insomnia or lost appetite or depression. I am concerned if these medicines are having adverse effects on his health. He's been taking them from more than 6 years.

Dr. Saranya DevanathanPsychiatrist50yrs exp

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Dear Ritika, May be your uncle, Sunil Kumar, has other anxiety and depressive symptoms that would have been elicited by the doctors. His major concern was abdominal pain and he would have revealed it to the family. Anxiety causes the autonomic nervous system activated. So symptoms come in many systems apart from abdominal symptoms. 

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Dr. R.N.ChaturvediPsychologist36yrs exp

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Your all psychological problems of anxiety disorders can be removed by psychological counseling and psychological autosuggestion therapy through the online process for three weeks without any medication you can contact me for this on Lybrate website thank you.  

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Dr. Saras PrasadPsychiatrist4yrs exp

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Many at times abdominal pain is a sign of anxiety. Abdominal health and brain health is closely connected. If doctors have not been able to find any medical causes for pain it may be psychogenic that’s why those medicines. But before make sure that all the investigations are done and detailed physical check up to rule out any medical cause.  

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Dear lybrate-user, if he has been seeking help for his abdominal pain for many years, then I am assuming that he would have been examined and tested for any physical condition that can explain the pain. When there is no apparent physical cause, one possibility is somatoform pain disorder, when the patient experiences the symptoms but a medical explanation is lacking. Such patients benefit from antidepressants and more importantly psychotherapy that will help them decrease the effect of pain on their lives. The good news is that, the condition is not dangerous, the bad news is that the patient will nevertheless be quite disturbed by his symptoms.  

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