HAnoway
06-01-14, 03:33
Hi guys, signed up because I'm really concerned about my own well being really.
It started around 3 or so years ago. My sister got married and I was about to go to uni. The combination of that huge change in my life and the thought that I wouldn't live to see my own marriage triggered really bad HA in me mostly manifesting in Globus sensation (to the point where I couldn't sleep). I went off to uni and everything was fine.
I've had another big life change; becoming a teacher and one day I went up to my friend's up North. I was waiting in the car park for him and suddenly I felt like I was going to die. Can't describe it any other way. I eventually realised I was just having a panic attack, but nothing had triggered it. It all was fine for a bit then I've been off work. I was admiring how much weight I'd lost in the mirror when I found a mark on my left side that looked like an angry mole. Since that point I've been out of my head. I've tried self-diagnosing and the best I can come up with is that it's a cyst but there's still an element of worry.
Since that point I've been really bad. Constantly checking over myself, chest pains, but the most prominent thing for me is my side/stomach.
I can't describe it as anything other than a discomfort on the right side of my body. It doesn't hurt or ache, it's just not comfortable. It's worst when I'm lying down. However, it isn't always noticeable (I had a strained side muscle and I didn't notice it due to the other pain.)
Along with it, there feels like a solid mass under my rib cage on the right side that isn't on my left. I'm aware that my liver is on that side. Symptoms wise, I had blood in my stool once (which I think was down to something else because it never happened again) and I've lost a stone but that's explainable (taken up sport, on my feet all day with teaching). But I still worry about my weight. It's like I've started eating more to prove that the weight loss isn't down to illness even though I want to lose it!
I had the side checked out a couple of months ago and it wasn't a problem, but now since being off work it's come back worse than ever and tonight I had one of the worst panic attacks I've had (and I can usually control them). I'm a big football fan and I felt panicky in the stadium for the first time and I've started to get a tingly right arm.
A potential trigger could be that my mum was severely ill in 2011 with breast cancer and my sub-conscious has taken a battering. It's getting to a point where I can't control it and it's driving me mad. My anxiety isn't that I always think something is wrong with me, but that I get constant anxiety symptoms.
I have a doctor's appointment tomorrow so I'll say all this to him as well.
Oh and just remembered, both my mum and sister have IBS!
I guess I just wanted to get this off my chest and write it all down. If there's any people who are in my situation or have experienced similar symptoms, please tell me.
Stefan
It started around 3 or so years ago. My sister got married and I was about to go to uni. The combination of that huge change in my life and the thought that I wouldn't live to see my own marriage triggered really bad HA in me mostly manifesting in Globus sensation (to the point where I couldn't sleep). I went off to uni and everything was fine.
I've had another big life change; becoming a teacher and one day I went up to my friend's up North. I was waiting in the car park for him and suddenly I felt like I was going to die. Can't describe it any other way. I eventually realised I was just having a panic attack, but nothing had triggered it. It all was fine for a bit then I've been off work. I was admiring how much weight I'd lost in the mirror when I found a mark on my left side that looked like an angry mole. Since that point I've been out of my head. I've tried self-diagnosing and the best I can come up with is that it's a cyst but there's still an element of worry.
Since that point I've been really bad. Constantly checking over myself, chest pains, but the most prominent thing for me is my side/stomach.
I can't describe it as anything other than a discomfort on the right side of my body. It doesn't hurt or ache, it's just not comfortable. It's worst when I'm lying down. However, it isn't always noticeable (I had a strained side muscle and I didn't notice it due to the other pain.)
Along with it, there feels like a solid mass under my rib cage on the right side that isn't on my left. I'm aware that my liver is on that side. Symptoms wise, I had blood in my stool once (which I think was down to something else because it never happened again) and I've lost a stone but that's explainable (taken up sport, on my feet all day with teaching). But I still worry about my weight. It's like I've started eating more to prove that the weight loss isn't down to illness even though I want to lose it!
I had the side checked out a couple of months ago and it wasn't a problem, but now since being off work it's come back worse than ever and tonight I had one of the worst panic attacks I've had (and I can usually control them). I'm a big football fan and I felt panicky in the stadium for the first time and I've started to get a tingly right arm.
A potential trigger could be that my mum was severely ill in 2011 with breast cancer and my sub-conscious has taken a battering. It's getting to a point where I can't control it and it's driving me mad. My anxiety isn't that I always think something is wrong with me, but that I get constant anxiety symptoms.
I have a doctor's appointment tomorrow so I'll say all this to him as well.
Oh and just remembered, both my mum and sister have IBS!
I guess I just wanted to get this off my chest and write it all down. If there's any people who are in my situation or have experienced similar symptoms, please tell me.
Stefan