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 :(

Have a read at this great link for helping manage anxiety with self care; www.mind.org.uk/information-support/types-of-mental-health-problems/anxiety-and-panic-attacks/self-care-for-anxiety/#.WiPphcenyhA

She said she couldn't see any external piles, why is that so hard to believe?
I don't have to prove to anyone that I am lying. I live 5 minutes from a walk in centre and got seen within 10 minutes. I thought I would be waiting hours but clearly not

I'm sure a nurse would have told that you pile can be internal so none externally means nothing. And also that fresh red blood like you described is not in anyway a symptom of anything dangerous, as it is not internal blood.
Come on now, tell the truth. They'll send you for a colonoscopy as that is standard, but they told you there was no sign at all of any of the serious illnesses you are determined to have, didn't they?

They won't refer for a colonoscopy. Not until you've had a digital examination for internal piles/fissures etc. and probably not even then.

You've got a gp appointment tomorrow anyway. Use it to address the anxiety ffs.

OP I think you should leave this thread - it's not helping you. See your GP on Monday and she can reassure you about the bleeding and also get you a referral for your anxiety. Think how different your life could be without it!

Sorry but i agree with tinysheep! And my FIL has some awful anxiety lately so i have seen it first hand!

Am sorry but I also told him to get a grip and get him self sorted and do you know what he did listen and now is feeling himself again after some medication.

A nurse would have told you piles can be internal and usually "present" themselves with a bowel movement making them bleed a little. A LITTLE Fresh blood is normally nothing to worry.

You need to get a grip!

No, seeking help for your anxiety cannot 'come after' whatever is worrying you now being investigated. You said that on your diarrhoea thread.

There is no 'after' with health anxiety. You'll get this checked out, it'll be fine. Then there will be something else that your 100% convinced is serious and that'll be checked out and fine. Then it'll be something else.

I know someone with HA who has had 92 GP appts in the last 3 years - presenting with lots of gastro symptoms. He's had bloods, X-rays, endoscopy, colonoscopy, barium meal, ambulatory BP and ECG, MRI.....nothing physically wrong to be found at all.

Now it's his back that is the problem. There will always be something. Unless you have treatment for your anxiety.

I can't relax until I know for sure I don't have a cancer or inflammatory disease. I am sure I will be referred for a coloscopy which frightens the hell out of me.

I agree I should leave this thread for now.

I can't relax until I know for sure I don't have a cancer or inflammatory disease

You won't believe them when they tell you that anyway though, will you?

And then there'll be another thread....and some people will make your anxiety worse because they'll say they knew someone with X symptom which turned out to be something serious.

Some people will upset you by saying you need to get a grip.

People will tell you to get help for the anxiety and you won't so with each new thread (even if you NC) more and more people will get frustrated and annoyed.

It's happened here before with posters with HA, a woman convinced her youngest child was going to get X or Y disease for thread after thread.

I can't relax until I know for sure I don't have a cancer or inflammatory disease. I am sure I will be referred for a coloscopy which frightens the hell out of me

I agree I should leave this thread for now.

I agree no wonder the NHS is on its arse lets send you for lots of exploitative tests costings hunderds if not into the thousands after you find something new thats "cancer" when infact you could see a gp for anxiety get some medication which will cure make you feel normal again.

Health anxiety is exhausting, I hope you are ok

Dear me is this the food poisoning no it must be crohns poster? OP seriously your anxiety is off the chart

There would be a dr on duty at a walk-in centre. Why didn’t the nurse send you to see them?

There have been a few very nice posters like Madcatter and you’ve barely responded to them or thanked them or even said you’d consider what they’ve said. It’s ok to be scared but you’re acting very unkindly.

Op I remember your last post when you thought you had ibd and were v worried, it turns out you had a very bad case of food poisoning. Its entirely feasible you have a little tear, a fissure, which is bleeding after a bowel movement.
please try to get a handle on your anxiety, it's this you need to get treatment for.

A smallish amount of fresh, red blood is not all that suggestive of cancer.

Not at all, in fact.

Honestly you need to get help for the anxiety. I had HA, it was exhausting. None of my actual illnesses including spinal surgery have been anywhere near as bad as the HA was. Mine manifested as chest pains mostly and panic attacks
I've also had blood for the last week but I know it's a small tear, hence why I haven't made an appointment or worried at all about it
There is life after anxiety, and it's a hell of a lot better that what you are living now and it's far less terrifying

I've had a pilionoidal abscess. It's agony!! Get some antibiotics before it turns into s full blown abscess. They will not do a rectal examination, and won't even notice it's your period. Not would it disgust them.

What makes you say that. An hour is a perfectly reasonable amount of time to get down to the walk in centre, and be seen on a Sunday morning.

Some posters are really nasty. Get a grip?! Seriously i would have punched you so hard if you had said that to me in the worst grips of my illness. I was diagnosed with ocd at 6 and have never encountered as many twats as on here today about my apparently made up "attention seeking". Op sounds very unwell and needs immediate medical help before its too late. Thankfully the person who talked me down from a pier in midwinter was a lot more understanding of mental illness and its manifestations.

I'm slightly confused. You started this thread with a skin problem at the top of your crack and now you have anal bleeding?

MarthaArthur
Op sounds very unwell and needs immediate medical help before its too late
No she doesn't sound very unwell, apart from her anxiety, but physically she doesn't sound very unwell.

And before it's too late???? What on earth are you on about. Too late for what. Way to go with any comforting comments there.