Health anxiety and GERD
Posted , 2 users are following.
I suffer from bad health anxiety and GERD. Today I ate some cereal for breakfast and I'm worried if the food I ate wasn't properly chewed since it feels like it's stuck in the middle of my throat and it's making me want to gag and it also feels like my throat is closing, my anxiety is making me worried that I might die if I don't go to the ER right away, but this isn't the first time I felt like this, this is very constant, I finally decided to go see an ENT early this month, which he diagnosed to me that I have acid reflux, I'm still stuck taking omperazole and it seems like nothing has changed for me yet, but I'm just worried right now about my throat, even though I could most likely be fine as I went to the ER before when the first time it happened and they never found anything there while taking x-rays. I don't want to also keep bothering the doctors either, everytime I feel this way. What should I do to stop worrying about my symptoms? I feel so stressed and just wish I could make my GERD go away soon.
0 likes, 2 replies
miguel34492 Shanny1997
Edited
I'am so sorry if you had to go through this but hey, you are not alone. also been having this health anxiety for 2 months now because of me kept on thinking that i might have a neurological disease that could potentially kill me as the time goes by. i'm also kind of having a similar sensation with my throat sometimes but its neither getting stucked or trouble swallowing but its just that, i could REALLY feel the food like even going down to my diaphragm level but most of the times if i'm just being natural and just eating normally without hyper-focusing into it, i don't even feel ANYTHING. and also, if in case that you are googling your symptoms, i suggest that you stop or if planning to, don't do it because it would make your anxiety even worse.
Shanny1997 miguel34492
Posted
Thank you for the response. And I'm so sorry you're going through the same similar issue as I am. It's so hard to not think about it when my anxiety is making me worry too much about it, whenever I feel like a food is stuck there, even though I'm breathing, eating and drinking just fine, but it would still feel like the food is there. It's so terrifying for me, but I'm taking medicine for it, I'm just hoping it will give me some sort of relief soon so I can start feeling better and stop stressing about my symptoms.