Anxiety/menopause

Hi Liz I hope you managed to get something from the docs to help ur anxiety. I was on citalopram last year but came off mid way through the year & then my anxiety started again a couple of weeks ago. Back on citalopram - but it does take a couple of weeks to kick in so got diazepam for a couple of weeks to kick start. My problem is health anxiety & I keep trying to tell myself I cannot get a serious illness in January each year that just does not make sense but will my brain listen- arghh. Anyhow hope you feel better soon. X

Hi ali how you get on today ? I havw started antidepressant for dep/anxiety they makw me feel ill xx

Hi Maud I went today and seen a lovely lady consultant she checked me all over and said nothing to worry about. If she thought I required any further investigation she said she would have given me a mammogram etc straight away. I explained re health anxiety and she said always best to get checked out and after all she is an expert in her field and she was absolutely happy nothing wrong, I think I probably asked her several times for reassurance! I feel happier within myself not perfect but I need to get my head round absolutely nothing untoward so hopefully within the next few days things will improve. Keep taking the tablets they will probably take time to get into your system and maybe take them with something to eat that may help. This is not easy to get through but we will get better. I go tomorrow to speak to someone who I seen last year so hoping that also helps. X

Glad yot peace og mind mine only lasted the day then i started ro think well what .. did she say it was menapause ... mine said musselxx

Hi she actually didn’t say what she thought she was just sure nothing wrong & that hopefully things would settle down. I am sure Maud this is all to do with health anxiety if it wasn’t my left breast then it would be something else like my right side last year when I had anxiety about that. I asked about the hrt but she suggested I stay on it as it does have benefits and because I am on the solo, due to having had a hysterectomy 6 years ago this does not affect my chances of getting breast cancer. My meeting with a therapist tomorrow will hopefully help and as my doctor has suggested we need to get to the bottom of why at this time of the year I get anxiety and it always comes down to me worrying about my health. X

Hi Ali I started taking it last week and like you said was advised it will take a good 2 weeks to kick in and may make you feel worse to start (true) but bearing with it until it kicks in....anything is worth it if it works. Here's hoping. I understand, I used to get extreme health anxiety too...more on and off now....it took 2 years of many tests and reassurance and changing my diet & lifestyle to calm that down....so hard to control when you get those horrible "bouts" where you can't control your thoughts...I hope your recent cleared checks helped you xxx

Hi Liz just bear with the tablets and I am sure they will kick in. This health anxiety is not fun I certainly am feeling better today although my left breast is still annoying me - not so much pain as just funny feeling they do say that with health anxiety you can have systematic (is that the correct word) pain and the more you think about it the worse it feels. I have now seen my doctor (week past Monday) & a breast consultant (Thursday past) and both have said nothing wrong so I need to get my head round that and just keep thinking it is the menopause and possibly the hrt tablets that I went on around 6 weeks ago. As you say these bouts are absolutely horrible & you just cannot control them. People keep mentioning CBT or something similar, I do want to get to the bottom of why I get this health anxiety however I am not good at talking to people face to face. X