Health anxiety and panic attacks after miscarriage, has anyone experienced this?

[MamaB12]

help!!
ever since my miscarriage 2 months ago i think my health anxiety has been triggered. i used to have this when i was younger around 18/19 years old and thought every symptom, pain or headache meant i was dying.
mow it’s hit me like a train i’m having 3-4 panick attacks a day?!
all i constantly think about is cancer. i had a pain in my breast this week which wasn’t constant but not sure if it’s muscle strain from the gym or period (cycle ended monday) but since then i have been none stop checking my boobs and even getting family members to check them for lumps!!! iv touched my boobs that much it is now sore!!
going crazy…
wtf is wrong with me
i’m not present at home, when around my child or partner. i’m constantly disassociating. brain fog, muscle aches, chest aches, hot flushes, panic attacks, i have to lay in bed then im fine. (my safe space)
has anyone ever felt like this or dealing with this.

Yes this happened to me, I had two weeks off work after my first miscarriage, thought I was ready for normality. At some point during my second shift back, I remember feeling like the walls were closing in and I was panicked. I had to go sit in the ward sisters office for a while but couldn’t return to the patients. It’s all hormonal and I think people underestimate how much it affects you physically and psychologically. It did fade in time but you need to be kind to yourself, consider more time away from work, more self care.
its especially hard when you have no confirmed reason for why this has happened to you, everything is beyond your control right now. Things you can take control over are self care, nursing yourself back to full health and finding the joy in the little things in life. It does get easier in time, you find ways to deal with the situation better even though it never leaves you.

im so sorry you’ve been through this, i sincerely hope one day you will have your happy ending xx

same here love, i only had a week off when it happened i don’t know why i rushed back, i needed to give myself time. my mum thinks i should get signed off for my own sanity and i agree, although i love being at work because it takes my mind off things but i am just hiding it and now realised thats the worst thing to do 😩

i just constantly think there something wrong with me, now im obsessing with the pain i had in my breast thinking im dying. im not ok i wouldnt wish this on my worst enemy. im having like 4/5 panick attacks a day and at nighttime i just cant sleep, as soon as i drop off my body jolts and wakes back up?!

I would get your iron levels checked if you have ferritin under 100 and/or transferrin saturation under 20% then that could be the cause, even if you're not anaemic.

My health anxiety went away when I improved my iron levels and I know someone who gets panic attacks whenever their iron gets low. A lot of the symptoms you describe can be caused by low iron.

Having a miscarriage significantly depletes your iron levels and was the cause of a massive health crash for me, though sadly I didn't join the dots till 10+ years later, because my GP tested and said my levels were "normal" (which was then defined as ferritin over 10, which is actually desperately deficient).

If you want to find out more, I'd recommend the Iron Protocol for Iron Deficiency With or Without Anemia on Facebook.