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Health anxiety is taking over :(

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amanda_59685
amanda_59685

Hi I've been experiencing the worst time recently with health anxiety. The thing that's getting time most is leg pain.

Since around Christmas time I was getting really bad cramps/pains in my calf , that of course made me go to the A&E department convinced I had a blood clot. The pain has spread and now in both legs.

Recently cramps have calmed down A BIT but not a lot but I have a new thing - I get flutters/twitches through out my legs.

Everything has raced through my mind - neuropathy problems, my arteries closing, blood clot (even though I have been tested twice and both tests came back negative).

It's really starting to take over, I am snapping and lashing out as I'm panicking about what is going on with my body.

Any help would be great, reading online to people's similair stories makes me feel better as it re assured me that I am NOT dying.

Currently waiting to start CBT classes

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  • cia42277
    cia42277 amanda_59685

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    When my legs and feet do that, it is a depletion of magnesium. I use a pure topical magnesium spray, and pain or cramps...gone is less that a minute or so.

    Potassium is probable also depleted...fot that, I would use food...more potassium rich foods every day, like bananas and avocados. Look up more foods  on google. (You do NOT want to mess with potassium in any other form unless porscribed by your doctor.) This will build your potassium. The magnesium will work immediately. You'll be okay, Amanda. Hugs

    • amanda_59685
      amanda_59685 cia42277

      Posted

      Thank you so much for your help definitely taking this on board and have been looking into magnesium spray!

      Thank you cia take care x

    • cia42277
      cia42277 amanda_59685

      Posted

      You are welcome...anytime. Just spray a few sprays anywhere. I do upper thighs because being a heavy oil, even after massaging it into skin well, it can feel a little sticky.
  • lisalisa67
    lisalisa67 amanda_59685

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    Have you tried cia idea of getting some magnessium oil spray! And soraying in theat area and rub it in? I hooe you have been rehydrating as we all discussed previously. The rest is dealing with youe mums cancer and how it effected you in therapy.  Tell the cbt counselor all this so he can workk this thru with cbt so you have a paper with all this on it to repeat iver and over until its accepted by your thoughts. I guess like ocd in reverse to undo this thought. I wish you well, feel good and keep hydrated. You are not dying love, you just need to allow yourself to start living.
    • lisalisa67
      lisalisa67

      Posted

      The exclamation was suppose to be a question mark lol
    • amanda_59685
      amanda_59685 lisalisa67

      Posted

      Thanks Lisa been looking into magnesium spray going to try my local Health shop before I buy online! At times I feel like it just takes over and I see all my friends out enjoying themselves and really putting the "love life" saying to use lol!!

      Then there is me the paranoid wreck!!!

      Thanks very much for your comment xx

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