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[Cthrnstowe]

Well been and had yet another test done, scan on my abdomen due the the pains I've been getting, got the results nothing there, come home now I've got a pain in my leg, it's mad how it's so real, I'm really getting tired of it now x

[Rebelyell]

You have my full sympathy, I am a fellow sufferer.   My only advice is to keep busy and active so you don't dwell on things.  And absolutely do not Google - I have managed to get myself into a state about piles today, which is ridiculous!   

Try yoga, I find it relaxes me and helps with my general well being. 

[Lisette]

Oh this is me to a T....what I haven't been dying of at sometime or another isn't worth mentioning. But who wouldn't panic with all the awful symptoms that we suffer !!

[Rebelyell]

I am having a full blown attack at the moment.   Strange aches in jaw which terrifies me has have fear of losing teeth and bloody piles which refuse to shrink...  Really paranoid today and terrified about two week holiday looming at end of the month.   

Had a blissful three weeks recently without anxiety and felt 'cured'.  I looked back on the anxious me and felt pity, almost as if she was a different person.  Am now firmly locked on other side of glass.  Bugger, bugger, bugger.

The trouble with health anxiety is you spend your time looking ahead, anticipating the worst, or waiting for a symptom, which is then brought on by your mind, thus keeping the cycle going.

Best wishes to fellow sufferers. X

[Rebelyell]

Thanks Sparkle, much appreciated.   Teeth anxiety again... The bloody thing that started it all off.  Hubby says if I go to docs about piles, and dentist about teeth, then I'll be ok again once those areas are better.   But when gripped by an episode I feel I'll just lurch from one anxiety to the next with brief weeks of normality.

It is also a very selfish, self-centred anxiety - which again makes it worse as I am filled with self-loathing.  Perhaps, as hubby sometimes dares to point out, I just think too much??!

Greetings to all you fellow sufferers!

[honeybun]

Much easier said than done though.

The rational part of my brain tells me I being really daft but another little voice says indigestion is not supposed to last this long despite having had it before and it lasting for ages.

I don't really tell anyone my worries and then the voice in my head gets louder and the what ifs go around and around. It's bordering on obsessive and I know I'm making the situation far worse.

No answer though.


Honeyb
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[honeybun]

Anyone else not talk about it to family.

If I was to tell hubby every time I feel off then it would be a continual moan and I'm sure.....good ad he is....he would get very tired of it.

Then things get bottled up. I do occasionally tell my daughter but she is only 20 and should not be burdened with a mad woman's thoughts.

Honeyb
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[SadLynda]

HB - I dont talk about it to anyone.  They know I have meno problems and anxiety but have no idea the extent of that, nobody does.  My acupuncture guy knows more than anyone.

DH cant deal with it at all, my daughter has her own problems and my Mum would forget 3 seconds later

my friend knows a little - she will know a whole lot more when she joins here

Thats why you all get my moaning

[Dyan]

Hi ya,
Just popped over from another thread with my health anxiety.
You might have read about it on the 'Heartburn' thread so I won't repeat it here.
I have just been out in the car to take DD some lunch and then into Morrisons to pick up pizza for tea and I have calmed down now.

I know I'm being daft but it grips you and takes hold.
Any little pain or twinge and I think................
Yesterday I had a headache and one side of my face felt weird so straight away I thought stroke

[honeybun]

What a lot we are....we could fill a book with our worries.

Good job we can come here and get it off our chests.


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[Dyan]

Yes. This forum has been a lifesaver for me
It is nice that nobody is judged.
If I told some of my friends how I was thinking/feeling they would think I'm mad.

[Rebelyell]

It is good that nobody judges, and interesting that we don't talk about it in 'real life'.  I have shared with OH and mentioned it to my sister in law, but nobody knows the full details.   Sometimes I think it is a like a gambling habit - watching Coronation Street's Carla log on and lose money reminds me of me with my i-pad and Dr Google!    Actually I was a lot better before I got my i-pad - now it sits with me at night and calls out 'just one more check - it will reassure you...'.  But it never does - as Sparkle found out with those medical text books!

Have a good afternoon.  What fun - rugby, then football.   That is surely enough excuse to sit with I-Pad and google, isn't it??

[Cthrnstowe]

Hi ladies,
You would not believe how many tests I've had done in the last 12 month
MRI scan on head
MRI scan throat
2 ultra scans on throat
Camera down throat
Camera up nose
Ultra scan abdomen
7 blood tests
Poo sample
Then their has been 4 trips to a&he one of them I called the ambulance for don't know how many times I've visited the doctors, I must be costing the nhs a fortune xx

[honeybun]

I'm the total opposite.

It's takes wild horses to drag me to the doctor.... I'm of the...well I will wait one more day before I go because it will get better.
If I post here that I have been to the GP then everyone should know things are not good....I avoid at all costs..

I don't want reassurance or tests I just want a big hole in the sand that I can stick my head in.


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[Cthrnstowe]

sparkle
That is so true, crazy isn't it xx