Has anyone beaten health anxiety?

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Name changed for this. I'm so so sick of it. It sucks all the joy out of my life. I do use meditation and medication and it helps a bit but I've had enough. I don't want to spend whatever time I have left of my life worrying!
I do have general anxiety too but the health anxiety has been horrible as I've hit middle age. My parents both died youngish and I know this is what set me off. So fed up with watching a film and the voice in my head nagging at me the whole time.
Any ideas please throw them at me. I want to beat this thing. It's such a bloody waste of time and energy and I want to live my life.

I had PTSD and my anxiety was linked to that. I saw a councellor who helped but felt out of her depth. She refered me to a psychologist, who made things much worse. So I then saw an NLP therapist I know privately for something called IEMT ( integrated eye movement therapy ) similar to EMDR which cured all my PTSD symptoms including the anxiety in 2 sessions.

Have you ever had any type of therapy? That could be something to try.

I've had hypnotherapy which helped a little. What is IEMT?

Haven't defeated it myself but just want to give you a virtual hand hold as a fellow HA sufferer. Mine has been so bad since the spring that it made me physically ill! I also lost a parent quite young and that has given me a very skewed view of my chances of surviving my thirties. I genuinely believe there is something just waiting to go wrong very soon, and it's ruining my life.

My GP was very understanding and helpful and has referred me to my local NHS psychological services, as I've used IAPT in the past and it just keeps returning after each round of CBT.

I have. Virtually.

I have done a few things.

I have said mantras to myself. 10x a day I say "I am healthy and strong".

I look at the evidence. That pain in my x I had last year eventually went, that niggle went.

I have done lots and lots of reading about psychological issues. Why I am like I am. It's basically anxiety, just one form of it. Why do you have anxiety.

Therapy. Look into your past. When did it start, how do you feel when it happens. etc.

There's always hope. Keep the hope.

I haven't. I almost did, and then I had a miscarriage. Cue everything flooding back. Now I'm convinced I've got some rare awful disease that's going to cause recurrent losses.

It's a kick in the balls, I hate it.

IEMT ( integrated eye movement therapy ) involves thinking about how you are feeling and the first time you ever felt that way whilst the therapist gets you to move your eyes in certain patterns depending on what you are working on. It sounds a bit crazy, but it really worked for me. It is similar to something called EMDR (eye movement desensitisation reprograming ) which is more mainstream and available on the NHS, although generally used for trauma I believe.

Thank you, I am going to try a few things. I need to stop this.

Sorry I've no good advice but I have it bad too OP. I don't know how to stop it, I don't want to go to the doctors about it because I feel that then every ailment I go to them with afterwards won't be taken seriously. Like they will just think 'ha right this one has health anxiety there's no need to take her problems seriously' so I really don't know what to do. It is ruining my life. Both my maternal grandparents died young and now my mum has cancer in her 50's so I'm convinced I'm doomed to die young also

I have this too and it's ruining my life. This week has been awful. But my symptoms are all anxiety related , so I don't go to the docs. But I do however have pulsatilla tinnitus and I'm going to the docs. Next week. I am 100% sure that she will put it down as anxiety related but having googled it (why did I do that!) I am now convinced I'm at risk of a stroke. Of course, now the tinnitus is worse and making me scared to go to sleep.

I am such a bloody mess. It is ruining my life. I also have depression and currently not on meds (it's been a hard year without them) so when the HA is bad, my moods are so low.

I also worry all the time about the health of my DH.

I hope today is one of your better days OP

I haven't beaten it, but I do have some tricks that help.
I remind myself of all the life threatening/changing illnesses I've worried about over the years, so I can rationalise that none of that was real.
I go and have a bath or do something that distracts me, clean a room or sort out some clutter, which usually helps the symptoms to disappear so I can further rationalise.

I don't think there is a way to completely beat it, but accepting it and working around it seems to help.