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 :(

really, if I am wrong, put me right

Absolutely. Go to see your doctor, tell him or her about your health anxiety. That will be the quickest route to putting you right.

@myrtleWilson I for one won't be flaming you, I hold the same view.

Op I'd be very surprised if someone with an inflammatory disease would actually want to talk to you, because you're minimising their suffering by claiming to have the same disease when your symptoms are minor at best. Besides which, as a Pp said, it won't actually help to talk to them anyway.

@myrtleWilson speaks so much sense.

I’ve read, and had sympathy about your anxiety, but Dear God! It is verging on the absolutely offensive now. I completely get the worry about alarming symptoms. But disregarding the opinion of many medical professionals because you’d rather wish serious illness on yourself - “See, I told you I was ill”- is wearing a tad thin.

The cyst you worried about at the beginning of the thread? My husband had one. Removed. We joke about his second arsehole. The bowel cancer you want to have to prove how ill you are? My Dad actually had. Had treatment for, quite unpleasantly, is now fine and went on to also beat prostate cancer.

You have one very serious illness to beat, and that is your anxiety. Please seek treatment for it and not your imagined diseases.

have you got another appointment?

I have UC and I'm one of those people where Dr's have missed loads for me in the past but with the UC my feet didn't touch the floor and they had me in hospital.

I didn't loose a little bit of blood TMI I lost alot,so much I was left anemic,massive bloody clots that made a noise when they fell into the toilet,I hate going to the Dr's/hospital/taking medication but even I knew I had no choice.

It is different for everyone but I have friends that have UC and friends that have Chron's and honestly for every person I know,every person I've ever spoke to(and there's been alot)that has either condition it was very obvious that they were really ill,couldn't keep any food in they're bodies most of us couldn't even keep boiled cooled water in,lost of lots of weight really quickly(that can change once they start you on the steroids)it's an illness that is bad and it shows when you first become ill.

You need to get help though OP because worrying all the time that your seriously ill and are going to die is no kind of life,I grew up in a home like that where the parents were always ill(in they're minds),it's the one reason that I've always put of going to the doctors.

There is a forum called "No more panic" and it deals with ALL aspects of depression, anxiety and panic disorders. There is a special section on health anxiety. Check it out, it might help, it explains all about HA and there is a forum for people with it.

Hi OP. Are you aware that every symptom you describe can be symptoms of anxiety. The gut is an incredible complex and beautiful system which can withstand an enormous amount of abuse however it will also trick you with symptoms indicative of severe stress.
I had bad gut symptoms, had a colonoscopy ( which is totally fine, you get to have a little sleep and a cup of tea after😀) and the results came back as all normal. It was stress causing the problems. Don't underestimate how much your brain can trick you.
Even if you are physically sick, the doctors will fix it, most people get through illness, medicine is amazing. Stop fighting and address your mind. Every person walking the planet has problems, some people just hide it really well. Stop wasting your precious life, you will be fine.
Also as a nurse in aged care, we really have seen everything!!

I just don't see how blood can be caused by stress.
Had a BM this morning, very loose but no blood.

I know my anxiety is not helping matters and I am sorry if it seems like I am insulting people. I just feel this may be the start of UC.

Have you made a GP appointment yet OP?

The gut is lined with loads of nerve cells. You remember butterflies in your tummy when you were a child? Or feeling queasy with anxiety? Those are both gut reactions to stress and excitement. The muscles in my gut knot up when I am stressed, causing stomach ache. Gas builds up because the system isn't working properly, so the tummy swells and you get stinky farts. The gut lining gets irritated and produces mucous to soothe itself. Any irritations in the rectum get worse, so piles etc flare up or bleed.

That is how the gut works.

I know two people who have had similar and it turned out to be an ingrown hair that had become infected.

Get yourself checked out, I'm sure there's a very simple explanation. You will never know if you don't go. A GP isn't going to care about your period, trust me.

As somebody who has had UC for 30 years I know pretty much everything.

If you are truly convinced you have it then you need to see the GP and ask for a blood test and stool sample to be checked, they will look for inflammation markers in that.

Blood doesn't always equal bad though. My dad bled and bled with rectal bleeding, I'm talking pouring, and lost so much blood he had two blood transfusions. That was 27 or so years ago, he only needed the transfusions because he didn't think mentioning he was losing mugs of blood every day was important! No cancer, no bowel disease/UC/IBS

Once you engage with the GP about your anxiety and start maybe CBT or medication, it will improve. But you need to do this soon, get an emergency appointment as this is no life to have

My DD when she was 16 had significant weight loss, bloody diarrhoea and a high faecal calprotectin level (700ish). She was fast-tracked for endoscopy and colonoscopy. Everything came back completely normal. She's had no further issues. Just one of those things that baffled the doctors.

I myself have depression/anxiety and an inflammatory autoimmune disease that has significantly impacted my life. But I manage and am finally showing a positive response to treatment. So the worst can happen, but it's not the end of the world
I found that when my anxiety/depression was off the scale earlier this year, my arthritis pain was through the roof. Anxiety can exacerbate and even cause physical symptoms so until you address the anxiety, you'll be stuck in this cycle of fear.

Please seek help for your health anxiety.

Why don't you think of your daughter and put her first before she ends up living the life of torture you are?

My mil has health anxiety. Sil has it also. They wind each other up about what conditions sil's 6 month old and 2.5 year old have constantly.

At LEAST once a week one of them goes to the ER. The 2.5 year old is a wreck. She's gone from a happy little girl to a mess.

I sympathise but it makes me feel sick to see what they're doing to these children. The constant tests and several times Blue lighting in an ambulance.

I've suffered health anxiety, depression one ocd myself. I got it sorted. For my son's sake.

You're wallowing and seem to not WANT to feel better.

Please help yourself before you turn you daughter in to a paranoid hypochondriac also.

Health anxiety is fucking soul crushing. It stole nearly a year of my life and it still rears its ugly head.

I suggest having a look at www.nomorepanic.com/healthanxiety

People who haven't had HA don't understand the way you think. What you question. How you're convinced that you're dying and the drs are lying to you etc. It's hell. You aren't alone.

(But you really do need to see a dr)

www.nomorepanic.co.uk/forumdisplay.php?f=29

Sorry, this will take you there

OP you need to realise that you will never be physically well or be physically fit if you don't deal with the anxiety first.

You are saying you need to get over this problem and be better physically before you will get mental health help but you don't seem to be able to understand that you will never be in the right place physically (until you get the help for your anxiety) and it will just get worse and worse.

You are not getting anything from this thread it is just perpetuating your health anxiety and anything anyone tells you will just be taken as further confirmation there is something wrong.

Seeking reassurance from people doesn't work when you have anxiety as it just becomes, for want of a better term, addictive. You end up needing more and more reassurance more and more frequently and eventually it will stop reassuring you completely, that's when you end up breaking down completely.

You need help from the DR for your health anxiety and you need that asap. You need to step away from the computer and seek outside help. Phone MIND now and tell them everything.

You do not have any form of IBD whatsoever. If IBD was only mucus, blood and smelly farts, with occasional gas, how simple life would be!

IBD is horrific.

Stomach cramps that feel like you are being cut open
Sweats from head to toe
Constant nausea
Losing so much blood with every bowel movement, you wonder how you are still alive.
Spending hours in the toilet, with your bum on the pan and your head in the sink, in excruciating pain.
Having to double and triple think anything you eat, in case it makes you ill.
Waking up more tired than when you went to sleep.
Having sore skin and hair. So much so you can't even brush your hair or put clothes on.
All the secondary issues - arthritis, erythema nodusum, anaemia, nose sores, mouth ulcers, the list goes on and on and on.

Imagine the worst D&V you've ever had. That is a normal day in the life of someone with IBD. At my worst, I was pooing up to 30 times a day. Losing lots of blood each time. I was so weak I could barely stand.

I've had more hospital stays than I can remember. More GAs than is normal for one person. I was 8 weeks post partum with a brand new baby daughter, when my crohns flared and blocked my bowel, and I almost died. I spent 3 weeks in high dependency, and another few on a normal ward. I have a scar from my lower chest to pubic bone, where they have to cut open my skin twice in 2 days and remove my large bowel, which was trying to kill me. I will live the rest of my days with a bag of shit hanging from my tummy, taking low doses of a chemo like drug daily and self injecting myself every 2 weeks. Both immuno suppressants, meaning I am always catching absolutely everything. My immune system has to be killed, because it is trying to kill me.

Still think you have IBD?

I've read this thread from the start, but you are really starting to piss me off now. Don't you dare minimise IBD as being mucus, smelly farts, a little bit of blood, and acid burps.

You are ill.
You are really really unwell.
You have an extreme and debilitating condition.
It's called health anxiety.
Make an appointment for that.

Your anxiety about these conditions you think you have seems to be affecting you infinitely worse than the conditions would even if you had them. How old are you? Apologies if this has been mentioned before and I missed it

You do realise that most of these symptoms can be caused by stress?

But @yippyyappy don't you know that x/y/z can't possibly be caused by anything other than whatever condition the op definitely has at the latest moment?

@Bumdishcloths

Have you ever had health anxiety?

As a matter of fact, yes.

But I didn't take to the internet insulting the intelligence and suffering of people living with major illnesses. I sought help from a medical professional.