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[Kathleen]

Hello ladies.

I've always maintained that I don't really have health anxiety as described by other women on this site but I'm now realising that is not true.

I've been researching low Serum Ferritin as my GP diagnosed this recently but I can't discuss it with him until my next appointment in early March. I am post meno and can't figure out why I have developed this type of anaemia and some of the sites suggest steady blood loss from cancer can be a cause. The fact that I have regular menopause anxiety doesn't help and of course I feel tired etc from the anaemia.

This is all so annoying because I remember having low ferritin in my younger day which was probably from menstruating but I didn't worry about other possible causes then. I catastrophise everything atm prompted by the fact that I feel so cr&p in a variety of ways.

Sorry for the moan ladies but I know many of you will understand and forgive me for my self pity. I just wish we could switch ourselves off sometimes and have a break from trying to fix ourselves!

Thanks for reading ladies and I hope my sour mood hasn't ruined anyone's day.

Wishing you all well.

K.

[dangermouse]

Oh please don’t be so hard on yourself!

The physical anxiety in peri can affect the mind and make everything seem one big worry. Health anxiety can happen at all different levels and most people will have had that panic that they are seriously ill at some point in their adult lives, even if it’s just from reading an article in the Daily Mail!

Just try to rationalise your thoughts as much as you can and understand that when adrenaline is surging about it’s going to frighten us more when thinking about problems.

All will be fine though.

[Dancinggirl]

Kathleen - the meno does horrid things to our mood - it's 'messes with our heads'.

When I start overthinking things, I try to do something that will make me feel better.  Yesterday I cleaned and refilled all the bird feeders - in the frosty weather the birds need more food. It was a horrid job as the feeders were so dirty and tricky to clean but I'm looking out at them now and the birds look wonderful on the feeder - this fills me with joy. 
I know it takes such effort to do anything when you feel so low but if you can write a post on this site, then you can overcome this low time. 
Try to do more things you enjoy.  DG x

[CLKD]

....... if you dig around the internet for long enough you will find disasters coming at you from all directions 

Can you bring your GP appt. forwards or see the Practice Nurse?

[Kathleen]

Hello again ladies.

Thank you all for your responses.  I accept that focusing on how I feel is not a good thing but when I get into one of my ' investigative ' phases that's all I do lol.

 I was discussing this with a friend recently and whereas I obtained printouts of my blood tests and researched their meaning online, she told me that she doesn't want to ask for her results because they may be bad and she'd rather not know. She is also struggling with her hormones but says she doesn't like the idea of chatting on a forum  as other people's problems will give her ideas lol.  My friend is a bit scatty generally and I can see the appeal of ' what you don't know can't hurt you' but this attitude hasn't prevented her actually having menopausal issues it just means that she is less informed about them.

When my menopausal journey began I was reasonably sanguine about the whole thing, believing that it would all be over in a year or two and then everything would return to normal just minus the periods. The reason I delayed taking HRT was because I thought I could just tough it out ( you only need to glance at my posts on this forum to see how that has all worked out lol).

I realise that when it comes to health anxiety it's best to  keep things in perspective and I accept that there is a balance to be struck ( isn't there always ) so I will sign off now, put my constant fretting aside and lose myself in a good book.

Thanks again for being there ladies and I wish you all a calm and pleasant evening.

K.

[CLKD]

Why not do what I trained myself to do?   B4 going into a shop I go from top to bottom to make sure that I don't feel queasy then I can go shopping.  I allows myself 10 mins. morning and night to ponder.  Inbetween, if anything bugs me I write a few notes .......