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.

I am finding it really slow here today, the site just won;t load for me.

i have not tried meds , resisted also ...i just dont think i had let go of this until i get reasurancce from a doctor got myself in a total panic ....

I am telling you now I was the same. I was afraid to try meds in case

They didn't work, confirming my life was miserable forever.

They did work and then I missed a vital signal and died because I wasn;t checking.

They changed me into a zombie and my life would still be shit.

But guess what, they GAVE me my life back, they gave my dh back his wife and fir the first time, my children have a Mother.

I can not urge you enough to try something.

thanks ,i maybe once past this hick up ...
glad they are working for you x

i know that in april i had all bloods done also did BowelC marker and OC came back ok ...so trying to hang onto that ..
i have a docs appt wednesday , so will talk more with her then , i think may make appt to see my gastologist again to go over symptoms see what he suggests .....he may want to do more tests ,,
i know this is sounding like im feeding the anxiety , and its prob right but i just feel i have to try take control and make appointments ..if that makes sense ....
its this bad devil on my shoulder ....hes banging on at me saying , yea but what if you do nothing it could be ....???

hope that makes sense and i dont just sound a little crazy ....

Makes perfect sense. I knwo the feeling of needing reassurance, the problem is that once you get it, it hops onto another symptom and so it begins again.

your right i know ....just cant stop myself ...

thanks for listening x

Course you can't help yourself, you do not chose to be like this. Think of the meds as the batteries for the light at the end of the tunnel, please talk to your doctor about trying something, I promise you there is a life out there x

thank you i will , i have to go out now , but will check in later , thank you so very much for listening to me , a comfort knowing i can , and am not the only one feeling like this ....my DH knows very little of how bad i feel, he doesnt really understand , he tried but i think i just anoy him .., but good to let off steam on here .

much apreciated ,xx

How are you now? Are you enjoying the footie as much as me???? #tongue firmly stuck in cheek

got back late last night , but yes avoided the football to ....
feeling panicy again today , hanging over me all these feelings of what ifs ....
just wont go till i get answers from professional i dont think ...erational thinking setting in ..
will call consultant later i think one i saw 4 years now ago see if i can get appointment asap ....in mean time see doctor wednesday get her to go through my blood results explaining what they are and mean ....
could cry right now just thinking about it all .....hate my mind sometimes ....
off to work now ...will pop back later ,

hope your ok waswats and have a good day thanks again for listening x

back home now going to make some calls in a bit ....

feeling very stressed and anx worried ....want to just run to doctors asked to get checked out ....

Iv booked an appointment to see my gastrologist next thursday now , so think i feel a little better .....got docs appt tomorrow also ...so hope will get some answers then ...
feeling still anx had upset tummy this morning to ....prob all this worrying ...all i can do now is wait ....

You really need to talk to the doctor about the anxiety, all these problems will just keep going unless you do. If it isn;t your tummy this week it will be something else, I know as that is what I used to be like. There is help out here you just have to be brave and grab it x

i know .. you are right ...just got to get past this phase ...i will consider the ADs all being well ....
hope your ok , does all this sound like you were ?
thanks for advice x

It sounds exactly like I was, 100% and look at me now ..... ;)

really ? thanks waswats x

went to docs this morning , well , she was good in explaining my results , thinks is due to periods my iron loss and my red blood count is just below normal range but thinks this would happen due to low iron , however ...does want to do Bmotion sample test to make sure no blood in it ....
did say was to rule it out ...so i hope thats a good thing .....iv got to stop the iron now as MB are black then do test ...., i have my gastro appt next thursday , so will have to see what he thinks and what may do
then back to docs for more blood to see if iron ant better ...after going back on iron

i keep swinging from ok , to total irrational thinking .....convincing myself i have Bowel C .....

You don't, you have health anxiety, I promise.

hope so ... hate myself at mo my thinking ...to much mind talk ..

all ok?

Health anxiety is total poo. Ive been the calmest person all my life. The last 12 months have been hideous. Best friend died of bowel cancer, husband had lump in chest that took 2 months of biopsies to rule out cancer. Dad diagnosed with bowel cancer with liver spread. Mum diagnosed with breast cancer. All ok ish at moment although husband has suspect mole that is due to be removed.

Reading this i am shocked at everything thats happened. Am left with severe health anxiety amd am conviced i am riddled with cancer. Found a lump in breast a few weeks ago that i couldnt stop examining but did nothing about. Had am epiphany last week when i realised it had been checked years ago and was fine.

Feel like i going mad

You are not going mad, it sounds like PTSD You had a dreadful year, it is only natural that you are on high alert now.

So how are we all today? This heat is getting to me I have to admit, there is no sun, just thick cloud and mid 20's. Bleugh. What is it like where you all are?

I haven't posted on here for a while, last time I was on I was worried about a "feeling" of having a lump under my right rib cage. I still have this on and off, it feels like an intermittent sensation that something is there, occasionaly a brief pain, if I reposition myself it goes. I don't have it all the time and can go for a few weeks without it. Have been on the verge of making a dr apt several times but I chicken out. Mostly I think because deep down I know it can't really be anything. Now its the summer holidays and I feel like I can't go to the drs because the kids are around and it suddenly feels much worse. I keep hearing stories of people with really aggressive cancers that didn't even know until too late to treat. Its terrifying not knowing whats going on on the inside. I would like a regular MRI scan just to check. I feel like I'm mad.

You are not mad.

If it is something that comes and goes it is nothing.

If it was a growth it would be there all the time and getting bigger.

Because you are so aware of your body you will not have anything going on that you will find when it is too late. It is the only upside of health anxiety!