To visit the walk in centre?

[Sienna333]

The top of my bumcrack has a small white/flesh coloured spot on it and although it looks insignificant, it is stinging like mad and I can barely sit. AIBU to go to the walk in centre? I can't take a minute more of this and what's worse is that I am on my period :(

Popping by to hold your hand OP.

Please go to your Gp tomorrow.

Write down your fears and why you feel you have these issues. Take it from there - I think you are very brave actually. You will get through this.

Oh OP, I do hope later on it goes well

OP - you are ill - mentally not physically

Please please focus on the real problem and get treated for the real problem before you waste your time and everyone else’s

Tiny sheep She has Health Anxiety - This is a real mental illness, and isn't for attention seeking. This is not the thread for you. Your comments are not welcomed on this thread. She needs support, not to be put down by your insensitive comments. Your the type who believes mental health isn't an issue. Well let me tell you, mental health is a massive issue. Let's hope you never get any mental health issues hey? Chances are you will at some point. Look at the stats.

OP you're not weird. Anxiety in whichever form, creeps up on the best of us. You're not alone.
Put your mind at rest with what's going on at the mo, find out what's going on, as this won't go away in your head until you have. Once you have been told it's nothing to worry about, go see the GP about your anxiety issues, they can help you. Have a wine. Balls to the flowers!

OP no level of reassurance will help you. I really mean this. Even a colonoscopy coming back clear won't because you'll think they missed something or a new symptom will start or whatever.

Don't you have a dd?? Seem to remember that from last thread - apologies if I'm wrong,

PLEASE GET MENTAL HEALTH TREATMENT. HEALTH ANXIETY IS CRUEL AND UNRELENTING WITHOUT HELP.

I know you're thinking 'but what if I ignore the symptoms and this time it IS cancer' but it's a game of probability : very very unlikely to have the illness you fear versus ACTUALLY DEFINITELY being seriously unwell mentally right now.

Betting money on the facts it is cancer/inflammatory disease. Feel sick with anxiety. I know everyone will be shocked when I am diagnosed but I feel like I definitely will be.

Would also have to accept the diagnosis AND the suggested treatment. Sounds like OP will accept none of those.

Sorry to learn that, @Caulk.
tbh, threads like this make me want to wait until limb falls off before I'd be dragged to see a doctor.

That is your anxiety talking OP. That's what health anxiety IS. I've suffered horribly in the past and it can be treated. In my case it's a combination of CBT and antidepressants. I thought I'd never be 'normal' again, but I got there.

this is a very good book

You know what? I no longer care that you're mentally unwell (which is obvious) - I do, however, care about the numerous relatives and friends I've lost to terminal diseases. You're making me really fucking cross and so I'm leaving the thread.

SEEK HELP.

Have you managed to get an appointment, OP?

Betting money on the facts it is cancer/inflammatory disease. Feel sick with anxiety. I know everyone will be shocked when I am diagnosed but I feel like I definitely will be

I actually find this offensive. You don't have cancer. You know you don't. We can all tell there is a serious mental health issue here, but lets actually say the truth: claiming to have cancer when you don't is about as low as you can get.
Thinking about it in those terms might actually help you to get a grip on yourself. You don't have cancer but you keep insisting you do. Ask yourself what kind of person does that, and if you want to be that person.

I suffered from health anxiety after my mum died because she had a gynaecological cancer with early symptoms that are practically identical to a gynae condition I have. I knew full well that if I developed the same thing it would not be diagnosed until it was advanced and that scared the shit out of me. Every new pain or twinge terrified me for over a year, and I am in pain every day so it was ruining my life. I also have ME and went through a phase where I believed they were wrong and I actually had something more seriously wrong with me, and that made me deteriorate significantly. Antidepressants helped me enormously. The problem is that you are so far into this that even if a doctor tells you that you're fine you wont believe them even if tests etc are clear.

You need to seek help for your mental health. This will end up destroying every relationship you have (some of your comments here really hurt for those who have severe illnesses or who've lost people to them and people in your real life will get fed up with the catastrophising) and you will get more unwell mentally. I'm assuming you don't want to feel like this - take some positive steps today to deal with it.

This thread is a perfect example for people who do not understand health anxiety, take what the OP is saying literally, get offended, and think sufferers should pull themselves together

Then you clearly couldn't be arsed to read the many considered posts some of them from people WITH health anxiety. How rude of you to dismiss them because you can't be fucked to RTFT.

You know bleeding can be a side effect of some medications such as ibuprofen x

@Sienna333, please try to remind yourself that anxiety is something that doesn't want to be cured. It will hide behind all sorts of other things, and your brain will tell you "Don't bother about the anxiety; worry about THIS much more serious illness instead".

In reality, if you tackle the anxiety, the rest will disappear as well. Please see your GP, and tell them that you've been having these thoughts that you're ill, and see what they say.

Even if you were ill (which it doesn't sound like you are, as your symptoms don't match the symptoms of any of the things you've suggested), the anxiety could be treated alongside whatever else was wrong - it may well be the case that a course of antidepressants is all you need.

I really hope you've seen GP today for the Ha. It sounds debilitating

Hope the GP has gone OK. I really hope you've discussed your anxiety with them. You aren't being rational, but you know that, your anxiety is telling you otherwise.

I actually find this offensive.

Agreed. So do I. I am SO offended by the whole of this thread. It's an insult to all the people here with actual illnesses who are showing more decorum and dignity in their thumbnails than the OP has in about 15 pages of her nonsense whingeing and histrionics. Taking up valuable NHS time for a spot on her bottom and keeping saying she has cancer - pretending to have cancer in other words. Good lord. What kind of person does that, and is allowed a platform on a national website to do so? What about the people here who actually do have cancer? How do you think this makes them feel? The OP's behaviour is appalling and I for one hope she gets banned.

I had cancer last year - OP's posts do not offend me, she is clearly mentally unwell.

Well they offend me. You don't speak for everyone.