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[booboo]

Hello Ladies

I have read some of the posts re health anx here and mine is on a scale of 9 out of ten and the moment and am convinced ( despite no signs yet) that I will get/have c..
About 14 years ago I mistakenly drank something and felt quite unwell - and  now my mind is dwelling... I find myself thinking all sorts of awful scenarios and the anx just
overwhelms me ..Health anx feels like a curse - it consumes my mind and its not something that I can just snap out of ...How does anyone else here cope with it?

[Kathleen]

Hello booboo and welcome to the forum.

A lot of ladies here suffer from health anxiety and I'm sure they'll be along to advise you. Btw I always thought I didn't have this but I realise I do sometimes.

I am no scientist but I'm sure  that any damage that occured fourteen years ago has long since been irradicated by the normal rate of cell replacement. Even smokers are told that if they kick the habit they will have the lungs of non smokers within fifteen years.

I also know that health anxiety defies logic but I wish you well and hope you feel better soon.

Take care.

K.

[Hurdity]

Hi booboo

 

Unless it was something radioactive or known to have long term effects, then I am sure there would be no long term problem - but it does depend what it was that you drank....

We do have a health anxiety thread in this section where you will find other like-minded women too!
http://www.menopausematters.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,28988.0.html

Hurdity x 

[booboo]

Thank you ladies and particularly Kathleen - I find myself worrying terribly about things that have happened in the past, all logic and rationality goes out of the window...Health anx is bloody hell and people that don't suffer or experience it, have no or little understanding of how debilitating it is ....I don't ever remember worrying about all this stuff until I got into my thirties, and its just got progressively worse with meno ( now 54 nrly) ...