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Daphk
Daphk

Hey Everyone! Just new to the forum as hoping to find some help or advice from all you lovely people

as the past 4 years I have been suffering with severe Health Aniexty. I am a natural worrier and after I had my daughter this has got worse. I would say I had postnal depression which was never confirmed but since then I have awful bouts of Health Aniexty. It can be anything from a sore head thinking it's a tumour, sore stomach thinking it's my appendix, just to give you a few examples. I have been to my doctors lots and they just don't seem to want to help or be bothered , I feel like a nuisance. I have kept this to myself all this time but lately it got so bad I have told my mum and she agrees I do need help.

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  • tracie20455
    tracie20455 Daphk

    Posted

    Hiya, welcome! We are a freindly bunch, and supportive...we all have similar stories, its remarkable how alike some of the stories are
    • Daphk
      Daphk tracie20455

      Posted

      Hi! Thank you for your reply! Yes there are definitely a few if us out there with our issues, not easy ... 
  • sharisse34001
    sharisse34001 Daphk

    Posted

    Feel the same way. Have you ever gotten eye pain/ eye strain, blurry too.?
    • Daphk
      Daphk sharisse34001

      Posted

      Hi! Yes for a good while I got headaches, where my eyes would go funny and sore, my vision like I would be seeing through a fog? I was at the doctors dozens if times, opticians you name it. Finally I got referred and got a CT scan, came back clear except I had sinus problems. Still comes and goes but I think it's to do with my monthly cycle and hormones as it's always at this time xx 
  • louise1974
    louise1974 Daphk

    Posted

    HI Daphk

    Welcome to the forum. Health anxiety is really common but that doesn't make it any better.  I have suffered with anxiety for many years, it started out as health anxiety.  I work in a cancer clinic.  Years ago I found a lump in my groin and from that moment on I was CONVINCED it was cancer.  Many trips to the doctor and referal to a specialist did little to convince me I was ok.  I stopped eating, lost loads of weight and generally felt extremely anxious and panicky and physically ill.  It was only when I started AD's that I started to feel better.  Nowadays my anxiety is non specific and when I do start to worry I ha\ve some horrid disease I can talk myself down.  Anxiety is crap it really is, if I were you I@d get hlep, life is too short to suffer.

    • Daphk
      Daphk louise1974

      Posted

      Thank you Louise. I would say your job would not be easy and would not help the situation either but a very worthy job and to be admired. 

      It really is awful however I do have good days, sometimes weeks but then it all comes back again.

      this week I intend to visit my GP and ask for some help. Tonight has been good on here as well a problem shared and all that .... hopefully someday it will all be a distant memory for us xx 

    • louise1974
      louise1974 Daphk

      Posted

      Daphk all I can say is you will know when you have a real problem with your health.  I had a wake up call about 4 months ago when I suffered a trapped gallstone, I could definitely separate that pain and ill feeling from anxeity.  IN fact in an odd way I didn't panic cos I knew it was real.  I've come to notice my "fake" symptoms from the real ones.  But I can totally sympathise, it's awful. 
    • Daphk
      Daphk louise1974

      Posted

      Yes I do agree. I have bowel problems (divictular disease) and when it flares up I know it.  I just get on with it.

      these other silly pains, etc are more dramatic I suppose as it's the unknown.

  • louise1974
    louise1974 Daphk

    Posted

    I could write a book with the symptoms I have/do suffer from. Headaches, wobbly legs, muscle spasms, breathing difficulties etc.  I left work a couple of weeks ago after an anxiety free day but became convinced I could not walk, my legs felt like led, I KNEW I could walk but dear god my legs. Walking and doing breathing exercsies really helps me to calm down when I'm at my worst but to be brutally honest I tried everything including counselling, the only thing that has helped is anti depressants.  Now i'm at the stage wher eI feel much calmer, I do get the odd day of anxiety but I can rationalise this now.
    • Daphk
      Daphk louise1974

      Posted

      That's good calmer is good lol! 

      Im not a fan of tablets but I am open to trying anything at this stage to be honest. The last 4 years have been long and a struggle plus I've been at I'm sure every department in the hospital too. I was so proud of myself this year I never went to the doctors from January to May. Now that was an achievement ! I also find walking helps I try to get out 39 mins twice a day but this weather/dark nights don't help with that.

  • Hollymayshipton
    Hollymayshipton Daphk

    Posted

    Hi Daphk,

    I know exactly how you feel and I am feeling really ill today. I get loads of physical symptoms for example today ive had a headache, chest pains, muscle spams, twitches, pins and needles, rapid heart beat, shortessf breath and aches pains. Naturally I believe this all to be down to a brain tumor, heart attack, blood clot and bowel cancer. I recently had a blood test that came back with "inflammation" so im even more worried as i know this can be a sign of tumors. I am not on any medication and dont know if it would help. You are not alone, anxiey is awful xx

    • Daphk
      Daphk Hollymayshipton

      Posted

      Hi Holly! Yes the signs are awful and I think our minds make them worse. I'm sure your 'inflammation could just be an infection, did your doctor not explain or do further tests. Def worth checking out more.

      I'm not a fan of medication but if it helps it helps and good, anything worth a try.

      yes there seems to be lots of us out there. I found a bruise today on my leg and yes I was looking up images of leg blood clots so your not alone xx 

  • nicola_01942
    nicola_01942 Daphk

    Posted

    Well ive woken up this morning all in a panic as im going to have to ring the doctors for an appointment for this discharge, feel absolutely petrified😢 sooo scared! And my partner is bk at work today so im at home alone with the kids, i hate this feeling its awful i feel physically sick, so scared its goin to be some form of cancer 😭 xx
    • Daphk
      Daphk nicola_01942

      Posted

      Morning! Im not good either! I have work today and my stomach is going mad I feel quite sick to be honest. I have to go as I was off twice before only for a day and got told if I'm off again I will get a warning. 

       Sure you will be fine this happened me once when on the pill, it's pretty normal if you had heavy bleeding that would cause concern. But definitely do go it's better to get checked out although I understand you can't help worrying xxx

    • nicola_01942
      nicola_01942 Daphk

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      Oh god i know the sick feeling is horribble isnt it, my stomach is turning😣 im trying my best to not cry as i dont like being upset round the kids!! Did u get it even when u was'nt due on? I dont finish my pill till sunday which means im due on around nxt wednesday, dont understant it but my stomach feels like a rollercoaster, awww poor u if only people understood what we were going through eh, i only clean a bank for one hour a night as it fits in with gaz being at work and the kids but i find that one hour soooo difficult i hate it and its all down to this HA, so so fed up!! Its never ending as soon as u wake up its in ur head straight away 😭 xx
    • Daphk
      Daphk nicola_01942

      Posted

      Yes it is, I actually enjoy sleeping as you don't think about it. Try getting out a wee walk today - I started this a few weeks ago and found it did help. It lifted my mind in someway so now I go twice a day for 30mins. 

      Yes that pinkish discharge happened between periods so I stopped the pill. It didn't agree with me at all. But honestly I've just had a smear and all clear but the letter said if I irregular bleeding between periods to get in touch so honestly I think you are okay. Yes I hate going to work too cause you sit all happy but really that's not the case plus my work I'm the girl certainly doesn't help! 

    • nicola_01942
      nicola_01942 Daphk

      Posted

      Its just ive been on the pill for a long while now so dont understand y its happening now, i normally get the brown discharge as im coming on or coming off but never inbetween, awww i really feel for u as i know how hard it is to hide how ur feeling, i put my makeup on everyday and just wanna cry after as inside im a wreck thats finding it hard to cope, im scared also as ive had dull ache on bottom right side of my bk and bits of niggling pains in my legs and google says its all signs of cc😢 its hard as when ur like we are we think the worst every time 😠 such a horrid horrid feeling for all of us!! Just want it all to go away and be the happy go lucky girl i used to be, i feel its wrecking my relationship and just want to enjoy my kids but finding it so hard atm!! Xxx
    • nicola_01942
      nicola_01942 sharisse34001

      Posted

      Hiya i went this morning and was so scared i burst in to tears when he called me in.. felt like such a plank haha, i told him i thought with all the symptoms that i had cc but he assured me he didnt think it was, he did a urine test and that showed up ive got a water infection so he gave me antibiotics, ive to go bk at 4.45 for my smear and a swab so im praying that they will come bk fine, feel slightly better after i saw him but still anxious about the smear and swab 😬 thanks for asking, xx
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