health anxiety

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has anybody ever found a cure for health anxiety. it has plagued my life for 7 years and don't see an end to it. awful day today.
ps never been on mumsnet before. sorry if this is the wrong place to raise this.

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Everyone ok? All gone very quiet here.....

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bad today

Oh no :( Talk x

hi waswats ,
i feel tired today ,and churned up , i have had on going digestive issues , 7 years diagnosed IBS , obviously stress anxiety doesnt help , on and off low iron for years , was told last week im anemic would explain feeling so crap for months .....so so tired , hair thinning , heart racing ...
but i got my print out of bloods yesterday and then googled the abnormal ones listed and now sent me off worrying something worse ....

i have an appointment with my GP (i booked myself ) next week so i hope she can reasure me ....just hate this HA ...why cant i just take the result and chill as if was something worse they would want to see me asap ....one would hope ...

sorry big rant over ...but im sure fellow health anxiety sufferers will relate to all the above ..
thanks for listening x

That is a lot for you. But you have to try to get the rational part of your brain to be the louder one, the one which says as you have pointed out, that if there were anything really wrong they would have contacted you.

i know i do try ..but hard as so tired ..irational thinking sets in ..

Can I join? I've suffered mildly from HA for most of my life. Recently though, it got out of control after a particularly stressful period and I began getting really bad headaches. Of course I went down the whole path of investigation - had MRIs etc - and the conclusion is that the headaches are tension and are down to anxiety. I accept that now but I'm left with a daily headache which I've had for 2 months now - a burning kind of pain on the top of my head - and I've been told that it'll go when I relax. Most of the time I accept that's what it is and they ease a bit but a lot of the time that horrid anxiety voice is telling me it MUST be something else. The key is to shut it up but I can't seem to. Trying CBT, Mindfulness, but it's a struggle still.

I've found you. Fellow HA sufferers. I literally check my boobs several times a night. If I find a normal spot on them I panic and have to check it out from various angles with a magnifying mirror to reassure myself it's not really a lump.

I worry I have bowel cancer, liver cancer, brain tumours, motor neurone disease, MS.

I was terrified having my first eye check as I was scared stiff they'd spot eye cancer.

My youngest child has autism and I'm obsessed with dying and leaving her.

Glittery you sound 100% like me. To the letter. I am on meds now thought and loads better.

bad today any listeners .....

I'm here. Hope you ar still around.

yep

Go for it! Spill , what's up?

worried i have BC or SC or slow bleed ....

thats bowel or stomach C , my internet so slow so bare with me sorry

Listen to me know. If you had anything like that you would be extremely ill, to the point that you would not be able to be on the internet, you would be on the floor on a heap and then taken into hospital. You do not have cancer, you have health anxiety. Equally crippling, but it will not kill you I promise.

diagnosed anemic recently on iron pills , i have IBS for years , had bad stomach cramps few months back after food , gone away now , i have loose MB but this hasnt changed been like it for years as gastrologist said normal for me now 4 years ago as im anxious , had tests back then to diagnose .
just read thread on here on BC and animia symptom of it ...

just got myself in a worried state , im 42 should know better but healy anx can hit at any age ...

Come here to me, stop beating yourself up, but let's try to rationalise it for you x

You have had tests which have shown what is wrong, so you now know you have anaemia and IBS. Both very treatable, nasty and painful at times, but treatable. When we are anxious it is a very physical thing too, not just mental, so you will release loads of adrenaline, as if you were under attack, and this can cause nasty tummy and bowel things, as we all have had!

I am also 42 and I have it too, the health anxiety I mean so you are with your sister here!

What happened today to trigger this? Have you to do something today that you feel anxious about?

thank you thats very kind thank you

i get the adrenalin thing totally i know when im in utter stress as in waiting an apointment im on the loo before hand as my bowels go mental

its the rational side battling with the irrational , good devil on my shoulder bad devil on the there ...
its horrid ...i get something in my head and its stuck till i get tests and reasurances from a doctor or consultant

trigger was a thread on hear on BC ....set me off ...

im so tired because of anemia feeling low and tearful so head searching for answers ....

You have your answer, you have health anxiety which is draining. The massive problem is that the body is so complex that your mind can find tons of things wrong. Have you thought of trying meds? I am on them, having resisted for years and my life is normal, I literally can not believe it. I don;t have that whirly frantic head feeling anymore, I am no longer afraid of bed time when I am alone with my thoughts. It is amazing. And I am not drugged or spaced out which I was afraid would happen.