To visit the walk in centre?

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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 :(

Health anxiety is a real illness. I have had very real manifestations of symptoms including rashes ans blisters that are because my mind willed them to happen. Sometimes i see things that no one else can and rhe fear is undescribable. I habe ocd too.

So to be clear you dont believe mental illness is real. Nice.

I am sure I will be referred due to them being concerned about the bleeding. I can't see any pile or fissure so can't be that

You can't see tiny tears. I get them a lot.

So it looks like we've clarified the bleeding is just menstrual blood. Aren't you reassured by that?

Tinysheep -FUCK OFF

And Tinysheep....would you say schizophrenia or bipolar are not real illnesses (not saying OP has them BTW). Lets just leave people with schizophrenia to rot, no medication, treatment or support then.

How much blood are we talking about exactly? A little bit when you wipe? Dripping into the loo bowl? A Shining-esque gush?

Tinysheep isn't alone in not understanding health anxiety. And it does cause a lot of frustration for people who don't 'get it'.

Health anxiety does have a massive knock on effect for other services in the NHS. That can't be disputed. But it is an illness.

tinysheep i never misquoted you at all. You dont believe a very real dehabiliting mental illness is real. Who the fuck are you to decide whats a real mental illness and whats not. Im pretty sure psychatrists and doctors and scientists know a fuck ton more than you about what qualifies. And as a mentally ill citizen of the uk the OP is entitled to seek medical help from the NHS

The OP clearly needs help, not for the condition they imagine themselves to have but for their health anxiety.

I’m currently in treatment for HA myself and am pretty angry at the suggestion by one poster that I’m bringing the NHS to its knees. It’s not for anyone except a medical professional to decide how to prioritise conditions and subsequent treatment.

OP I’ve been where you are right now. It’s a dark place. But you know, deep down, that you’re going to be ok really. You’ve just lost sight of that temporarily. I hope the dr can offer some relief, I suspect it’ll be short lived unless you seek treatment for your HA.

Yes most pharmacy's will give you a check over for most complaints, probably better going to a biggish shop( city centre rather than corner shop ) I use boots all the time for this kind of thing, they are great and will tell you if you can get a off the shelf product rather than a prescription so it normally works out cheaper too.

How has this lasted 6 pages ? just go to a walk in centre if you are worried! ! At least they have sent a lot worse than a girl on her period and youre mind will be better. X

I got a same day drs appointment for my ill child on just this week, tinysheep

The problem with anxiety is that it is self perpetuating. You get anxious about something. Your body responds because anxiety = danger so you need to react. Quickly . You don't have time to think. You release adrenalin. Cortisol and all manner of stress hormones - we have ALL experienced this. That horrible lurching feeling if you step in the road without seeing a car coming. Being told bad news. It's there to protect you..fight or flight.

I've the stress levels reach a plateau our lovely brains release neurotransmitters to dampen down the stress response. Seretonin Dopamine Etc. It stops the circuits from trying.

People who suffer from anxiety have been proven to have imbalances in the levels of certain neurotransmitters and this often allows the anxiety hormones that are released as a protector to run amok.

The negative thoughts just never leave. They frewuently escalate into panic attacks and there are so many messages in our brain that we can no longer think rationally.

We can all tell the OP until we are blue in the face that she isn't being rational. I think she knows this but I doubt she has much in the way of choice just now.

Tiny sheep, i think you've made your point. I'm wondering if you or someone close to you has suffered a medical illness and this is influencing your posts. If so, I am sorry about that too. This poster needs help of a different kind and maybe she'll get it and live a happier life which will become cheaper to the nhs- if human suffering is to come down to pounds and pence.

@tinysheep has a point though. One in five NHS appointments are taken by hypochondriacs, costing the service £420 million per year. If you add that to the missed GP and hospital appointments, which £912 million... yes it's no wonder the service can't cope.

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