Health Anxiety - Part two

[MrsWhites]

Hi everyone, it seems we have reached 1000 posts on our original thread which is amazing, just shows how much support we have been able to give each other.

I thought we would benefit from part two!

@goolies
@Mvshrln
@lib3rtine

@chorusline79
@tmh88
@witchSharkadder
@ethellsmum
@pinkmonroe
@tunnocks34
@TheSilentStars
@anotherdoghere
@nastyblouse

So sorry if I have missed anyone off, I’ve gone through the last few pages of posts from the last thread to include as many of us as possible! Hope you all find this one!

Thanks for the tag!
Thanks everyone as well for your well wishes about the scan, hoping I now have a straightforward couple of weeks until baby arrives!
Hope everyone is ok tonight x

Thanks @MrsWhites
And thanks to all of you for being here, and understanding. Really grateful for this thread, for the support and reassurance and feeling like I'm not alone in this. Hope everyone is ok today?
For anyone with stomach troubles, I've been taking probiotics for the past week and they seem to have started to make a bit of a difference and hopefully settling my stomach troubles - I do think that Christmas having my DH here and low stress for a couple of weeks has been a big part of that too.

Thanks for sorting this part 2 @MrsWhites is be lost without you guys! X

Thank you! @MrsWhites such a relief to know this threads carrying on x

Oh great it worked 😂

@chorusline79 what probiotics have you been using, I’ve been googling about them for the last couple of days, I’ve heard great things about them aiding digestion and I’m still really struggling in that area so am thinking of trying them too!

@MrsWhites I bought some Biokult ones - I just thought I'd give them a try, and feel like it's made an improvement ( though that could be in my head, knowing my head!) I've also got some of those actimel shots to try. I must admit I have neglected myself in many ways lately and hoping this will help my gut, and trying to drink less alcohol and eat a bit better.

https://www.hollandandbarrett.com/shop/product/bio-kult-advanced-multi-strain-digestive-system-formulation-capsules-60043264?skuid=043265&utmcampaign=shopping&utmmmedium=cpc&utmsource=google&&gclid=CjwKCAiA57DDBRAZEiwAZcfCxWOj9jIjg8EmMvpOTWP6FeiJTlBhDChAjJfWhaHPt28xMUSoQ2K1hhoCdfQQAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds

Hey everyone.

Thanks for the tag and the new thread @MrsWhites, good to have the thread continuing. Thank you to all of you too for getting me through last week, I was really at my lowest and just knowing I wasn't alone really helped.

Hope everyone is doing okay today!

Thank you @MrsWhites.

I had a shitty day yesterday and got really annoyed with myself. I’ve decided to fight the anxiety as best I can so today I started the sertraline.
I’m also going to try and get back out running as that really helped last time.

@WitchSharkadder how are you doing now? Hope you're feeling a bit better

@Ethellsmum hope the meds work well for you. Good stuff on the running - I go.
a few times a week and it massively helps.

Hope everyone else is ok. I am looking forward to a curry this eve and to say goodbye to 2020!

@MrsWhites just wanted to pick up on your point about anxiety being cyclical as I'm convinced mine is. Last month I felt terribly and intensely sad, I could not stop sobbing and couldn't focus on anything. And then I realised it had been the same the month previously so I'm recording it all so I can see the patterns each month. Had bloods done last month to check hormone levels as I became convinced anxiety linked to perimenopause but they came back normal. I was a bit disappointed as I was hoping this might have given me a bit of an answer! Now I'm wondering if it's PMDD...

Thank you for the new thread!

I've seesawed between feeling absolutely fine and losing myself in Google.

I've been taking Holland & Barrett acidophilus for a while now. When I went for my gynae check up the doctor told me to take a good probiotic and magnesium every day for stress related digestive issues.

Today's issue is lower back ache which realistically I know is due to lots of walking over the last week taking advantage of the nice winter weather and being off work but obviously because I'm me has me googling bones.

Hope you all have a peaceful NYE and thank you for being here!

@chorusline79 I have thought that I could possibly have PMDD myself, 9 days before my period like clockwork I become irritable, withdrawn, tired and more anxious, it usually lasts until a few days into my period. The smallest thing can set me off. I did take vitamin d and magnesium for a while, my husband thought it helped but I couldn’t feel any difference so ended up forgetting to take them all the time. It’s a horrible feeling isn’t it!

@TheSilentStars I’ve heard good reviews about that one from Holland and Barrett, I think I’m definitely going to start on a probiotic and to take the magnesium and vitamin d again too. I’m sure your back pain is down to walking a lot, especially if you aren’t used to usually walking that much.

@TheSilentStars that one looks good - I might give it a try as they are in the get one for a penny and would be much cheaper - I am spending a fortune on vitamins and supplements currently!
Hope your back feels better and definitely sounds like normal exercise aches and pains. A nice bath? Or hot water bottle on your back?

@MrsWhites so interesting I'm so similar in my symptoms and cycle. I do find it a bit reassuring that there's a pattern with it but it's scary that when it comes it hits me like a ton of bricks each time! Maybe worth trying again with the vits and definitely the probiotic. The improvements in my stomach the last few days are making me much less anxious and less worried about something sinister going on with bowels.

@chorusline79 I know what you mean, it should be reassuring that it’s a pattern but I still question it every month when it happens, if there is something wrong with me. I’m still struggling with the constipation issues so I’m definitely going to try the probiotics, like you say I might try those ones @TheSilentStars recommends as they seem quite a reasonable price and have good reviews. I was also spending a fortune on them at one point. I’ll have to make the most of the H&B penny sale 😂

@MrsWhites they look good don't they. I know what you mean, my cupboard looks like a pharmacy! I have never really known about probiotics before but I will continue taking as I have had a bad stomach since April and nothing else has worked - including cutting out dairy and wheat etc

@TheSilentStars do you take one or two a day?

Does anyone else get sad and emotional on New Year’s Eve or is that just me? I’ve noticed now it happens to me every year and I don’t know whether it’s my anxiety or just normal. I’ve just been looking back at photos of this year and realising that it wasn’t all bad and in a way am sad to see this year go!

@MrsWhites

Does anyone else get sad and emotional on New Year’s Eve or is that just me? I’ve noticed now it happens to me every year and I don’t know whether it’s my anxiety or just normal. I’ve just been looking back at photos of this year and realising that it wasn’t all bad and in a way am sad to see this year go!

Absolutely. Not just now, in a year like no other, but generally. It's almost a weird exquisite melancholy, I'm dreadfully nostalgic anyway, and my friends joke that when I'm 70 and having my memory test I'll not know my name but will tell the doc what I was wearing on NYE in 1988 . I think it's slipping over that boundary from the present to the future on NYE. And Auld Lang Syne always makes me cry.

I am just taking one acidophilus a day at the moment as like others I've got a cupboard full of stuff! Vit D (Covid and bones) magnesium (anxiety and twitchy legs ) acidophilus (new entry!) Also wondered if my thyroid was ok and realised I have some sea kelp in the cupboard from ages ago so might take some of that too

I just stocked up on more while the penny sale is on and ordered digestive enzymes (in case my digestive issues do end up being gallbladder, which I hope) and peppermint oil

I sound such a hypochondriac and yet I'm the one who puts off going to doctors because of the anxiety.

Has anyone tried 5htp? I've got some of those as well in the hypochondriac box.

I think I need to join this thread. I'm so anxious about my health and more specifically my heart, even though I've had various checks that are ongoing. My carotid arteries are continually visibly pulsing out of my neck and although nobody seems too concerned, I'm convinced there's something really wrong with me. I have a constant feeling of dizziness which I haven't been able to find a diagnosis for and my neck is so sore down the sides. I've been concentrating on my breathing so much that I feel like breathing is hard work and even though it's more than likely anxiety, I can't shake the feeling it's heart related.
I feel almost on the edge of a panic attack a lot of the time. It's particularly bad in the morning when I wake up around 5.30/6 and I struggle to get back to sleep. It's awful.

I haven't posted often, but am lurking.

I honestly feel like I'm falling down into the abyss of severe anxiety. My mum did the same thing 7 years ago, 18 months later she took her own life. I feel like I'm following down that path. I'm so anxious that my body has stopped automatically breathing and I'm manually taking each breath. I'm waking up over and over at night with night sweats and vivid dreams. All this has kicked off because I'm convinced there's something seriously wrong with me.

Oh @RaeCJ82 that sounds awful. Have you seen a doctor about your anxiety? Do you take anything?

I have been having loads of tests on my heart because of dizziness and palpitations and I've had an MRI scan because of the dizziness and pulsatile tinnitus. I'm still awaiting the heart results but the MRI is clear, so no real answer to the the pulsatile tinnitus or the ridiculously pulsating neck. I've been prescribed propranolol but I don't like taking it as I felt that it was making my breathing worse. My heart also already goes into the the low 50s even high 40s when I'm lying with my feet up so I don't want to lower it any more. I also have some diazepam but I feel like that make me feel panicky when they wear off and I know they aren't a long term fix. My mum had so many different changes of drugs and electric shock therapy that I'm now so scared of medication because of how I saw her change on it!