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health anxiety

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hopeliss · 14/10/2013 11:18

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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WasWats · 20/01/2015 16:31

Worrymummy123

The groupon probably coincided with a period of stress and you have attached that stress to health, this is a pattern we all seem to have it does get better keep posting. It does get better. I think what goes out the window 100% in times of anxiety is rationality.

MasqueradeWaltzer there are many things you can do about it. Talk to the GP, look at CBT, it sounds like you would be a perfect person for it!!! Ribs and chests feel sore and tight in the Winter I find, all that bracing yourself against the cold, brrrrrrrr.

smokingpun, are you just looking for a focus group???? Sorry now but that post seems real at the start and then descends into you sounding like a marketing person.

WasWats · 22/01/2015 11:19

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WasWats · 07/03/2015 10:35

How is everyone?

Yoruba · 07/03/2015 19:11

Can I join? I'm in a bad bad patch at the moment. Worst one ive had I think. Started with tingling in my hands a week or so ago - went to gp who referred to a nerve study and blood tests. I've convinced myself its a brain tumour. Went to out of ours last weekend because my pupils were different sizes - he says I don't. Definitely. But none the less that still seems odd and now I'm seeing spots too.
Been put on sertaline 10 days ago, not feeling much better. Constant intrusive thoughts. Convinced I'm going to die. I'm barely functioning. Dealing with the dc through a layer of anxiety. I don't know how to deal with this anymore. I'm just desperate :(

WasWats · 08/03/2015 11:17

Hey nothing to worry about, it is all the anxiety. You are probably in a constant state of panic. I would bet you anything you are shallow breathing from it which will cause tingling and floaters or spots in the eyes.

The meds are probably making you more anxious to begin with but stick with them, they will work.

You are NOT going to die, you do not have a terminal illness, you have anxiety.

Anxiety HATES company so that is what I will prescribe! Make yourself get out and be with people, if you stay in just with the kids you will get stuck in that constant pattern of the what if.

Yoruba · 09/03/2015 09:29

Thanks Flowers

It's awful. A constant background hum of doom in my ear that I just can't escape.
You're right that I'm in a constant state of panic. That's exactly how I feel. To me it seems perfectly logical that with these symptoms I'm clearly going to die. I keep telling myself that its just the anxiety talking but it's hard to believe.

Have a phone appt with the dr this morning and am meeting a friend with the kids too.
Didn't know that the meds could cause anxiety before they kicked in? I was assuming they'd be working at least a bit by now!
I'm just desperate. I want to escape my own mind!

WasWats · 09/03/2015 19:11

They definitely can and mostly do increase your anxiety, might be worth talking that over with your doctor.

ballofworry · 16/03/2015 20:33

anyone want to hold my hand ? HA back ...

laurenlow14 · 17/03/2015 08:57

I always think there's something wrong with me! Always think I can't breath that I'm going to die any second ! Feels like I'm waiting for something to happen to me! Feels like I'm expecting to feel myself breathing what's that even mean?! Feel like I dint have control of my head anymore

ballofworry · 17/03/2015 14:46

its horrid isnt it Sad

buildmeabuttercup · 18/03/2015 19:24

I haven't suffered full blown health anxiety for over a year but today, today I'm losing my mind with worry over my dd, over some bruises and an injury she had a year ago, all because i read something on google. Argh i hate this Sad

ballofworry · 19/03/2015 07:26

oh sorry to hear that build ...hope your ok today ..
Dr google is never our friend..

Haggisfish · 19/03/2015 07:34

I'm back too! Convinced I have a spinal tumour after a thread on here when actually I'm sure I just have chronic sciatica caused by lifting the dc. Sigh! Ironically I am doing an anxiety workshop at school today for all the stressed out teenagers I teach!! Hope everyone's day is ok.

Haggisfish · 19/03/2015 07:35

I have managed to stay away from dr google though, apart from looking at a sciatica website. Feeling proud of that.

ballofworry · 19/03/2015 07:56

hi haggisfish , hope the anxiety workshop goes well , and you have a better day ,
im waiting for CBT from my doctor hoping this will be my cure ....Hmm
moles been my thing this last month but went to specialist yesterday for reassurance again ..all was fine , that was off the back of reading something in a news paper about SC , then i was utterly convinced i had this rare form of it that ...i went to the doctors she said she didnt think it was anything synister ...but i still wasnt convinced so i then paid privately to see a dermitologist to be told the same !! i just couldnt let it rest was constantly in my head every moment every day day ....
but today im a bit calmer ...but i know im not cured the anxiety is still there ...till the next time .. Sad
was close to tears in the room was so anxious ...felt like everyone was looking at me like i was nuts !!

anyway hope everyone has a better day , comfort knowing im not alone .

and well done for staying away from Dr G ...thats a hard thing to do so well done Grin x

laurenlow14 · 21/03/2015 11:41

I'm 18 have severe anxiety ! I always think I'm going to die or just stop breathing I think I cant breath when I clearly can have had chest X-ray ct scans heart Eco and they're all clear how can anxiety do this?? I feel like I'm not on the planet I seem to feel every ache and pain 10 times more than normal

buildmeabuttercup · 21/03/2015 12:23

I'm okay now thanks ballofworry

my health anxiety has really calmed down the past year but every now and then I will have these awful blips where I feel like out of control.

The other day I had a panic attack over a DVT fear. I have worked so so hard to get on track, health anxiety took so much of my life away that these blips are worse because I feel like I will never be fully 'cured'

Lauren anxiety definitely does that. I always say the physical symptoms of health anxiety are the worst because they only reinforce the belief there is something wrong with you. Its a really hard cycle to break.

i had lots of clear tests the results are only comforting for about an hour though Sad and then you just find a new thing to worry about. I just wouldn't wish this on anyone x

laurenlow14 · 22/03/2015 09:06

It's awful! Everyday I wake up knowing I'm going to feel this way it makes me feel so down and stupid! Breathing is the worst for me I get worried I'm going to just stop breathing or pass out

ballofworry · 23/03/2015 07:57

Hi, how is everybody today ?
I've been ok ish but today not feeling great feel like I'm fighting something , and got myself all anxious as on last blood tests I had low white blood count , having re test in month or so ... So thinking the worst ... Trying not to let this take over my life till then but it's so hard ...
But on the plus side is sourced a councillor to go and see this week in hope she may be able to help me with my health anxiety .... ( fingers crossed )

buildmeabuttercup · 24/03/2015 07:31

Aw ballofworry don't panic, if there was anything serious you wouldn't be waiting a month for a re-testx

ballofworry · 24/03/2015 07:53

Thanks , feeling low today felling bit fluy today had night sweats last night and resisting not to google ... As I know that will take me where I don't want to go ...
I have first concolling session tomorrow so hope that will help or at least set me on the right path ...

How are you ? Hope your doing ok

crabapple34 · 24/03/2015 18:58

Hello everyone, mind if I check in?
I have been suffering from health anxiety since just after Christmas. One night I had palpitations, chest pain, pain in my left arm and jaw, basically all the signs of a heart attack. I googled, and of course everywhere tells you to go to A+E, which I did and I was fine.
Since then I have had chest pains, head aches and other strange aches and pains on and off. The past six weeks or so have been particularly bad as I have not had one anxiety free day. Every time I get a new physical manifestation of anxiety it sets me off, recently it had been a strange swollen sensation in my throat and a tense and achey jaw.
Tonight I've been googling pulmonary embolisms like an idiot and I'm all anxious after having an otherwise ok day.
Blah, I just wish I could go back to how I was before. A relaxed and happy person who was very blase about health matters.

ballofworry · 25/03/2015 07:28

Feeling awful today I shouldnt I know but I googled feeling so anxious tearful any one up for hand holding

crabapple34 · 25/03/2015 12:33

Hello Ball. Hope you feel better soon, I'm feeling similar today. Is there anything you can do to distract yourself? I didn't get much sleep last but I'm at work so keeping busy, though when I get a free moment the anxiety creeps back.