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JS79

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Health anxiety
« on: October 11, 2024, 02:09:24 PM »

Never had anxiety in my life until these fun symptoms started. I convinced myself it was MS and even think I convinced my GP, anyway my MRI came back clear and eventually diagnosed as perimenopausal.

Do you think health anxiety is worse for people with nursing/medical knowledge? We know how fragile life is and deal day in day out with illness and death.
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CLKD

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Re: Health anxiety
« Reply #1 on: October 11, 2024, 04:50:11 PM »

Nope.  I think that health anxiety kicks in due to in general, age: women are juggling balls in the air: kids in school/teens/peri-menopause/husbands who can't understand/elderly relatives.  At least having been in the NHS myself I know not to trust Dr GOOGLE - though it proved useful when DH had shingles  ::) and also to push for appts. with my GP.

What worries you the worst?
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JS79

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Re: Health anxiety
« Reply #2 on: October 11, 2024, 05:08:47 PM »

Just feel alot of people on her say they are RN or work for NHS etc, wondered if a link. Do we know more symptoms of what conditions etc are so therefore panic more? I have found a lot of comfort in googling if a symptom can be perimenopause, normally it says yes and I just write it in my diary.
I guess I have always just wanted them to find out conclusively what all my symptoms are, yes HRT is working to a certain point but I still believe there is more going on, or is it just health anxiety making me think that.
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Re: Health anxiety
« Reply #3 on: October 11, 2024, 05:11:27 PM »

There aren't any really conclusive results, it's a bit Trial and Error.  Keeping a mood/food/symptom diary to chart progress as well as being aware of our own cycle through our menstruating years is helpful.

As hormones wax and wane we can have some or no symptoms of peri.  I knew that I was going into The Change and fortunately haven't suffered too many symptoms. 
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