Has anyone ever sought help over health anxiety for their children?
I have 3 year old twins. One twin has always struggled, has had awful sepsis at 10 months old, illness after illness. It’s never a sickness bug it’s gastroenteritis that puts her in hospital for 3 days. It’s the horrific oral herpes that also put her her in hospital. Two chest infections within the last 4 weeks. A recent operation to remove tonsils & adenoids which were causing terrible sleep apnea.
DT1 is also under an endocrinologist as she is tiny, nowhere near the start of the growth charts, but consultant doesnt think it’s necessarily an endocrine problem. We’ve had genetic tests done, all come back clear thank goodness.
last week she suddenly came out in hives all over her body, it was dreadful, Dr was quite relaxed and just said give piriton.
she’s now full of cold again with a temperature. I’m starting to feel so so anxious. Every single time she is poorly I convince myself that there is something seriously wrong with her we just haven’t found it yet 😞
DT2 is healthy, happy, robust and very rarely poorly.
im sat here in tears, I’m torn between thinking I have health anxiety about her and on the other hand thinking that I’m not pushing enough to see if there is something more underlying.
no one else apart from DH seems to fully understand how worrying it is just waiting for the next bout of illness to strike.
if anyone has any pearls of wisdom or advice I would very much appreciate it