rb1978
25-11-06, 17:47
Hi everyone!
I've been suffering from Health Anxiety for about 6 months now. Well, it’s been going on a bit longer but it’s in the last 6 months that I’ve started recognising it might be anxiety.
My problem seems to be focussing in on a particular symptom that might start quite small and then doesn’t clear up which then convinces me it’s serious. Like I had stomach problems a while back, convinced myself it was bowel cancer, could hardly walk for the pain some days, got referred for an ultrasound and there was nothing there. Even I could see there was nothing there onscreen and, guess what, it cleared up completely about a week later and has never returned.
The latest thing is ear problems – well just one ear to be exact. Feelings of sea-sickness, fullness, pains around the ear and also just feeling it needs clearing out though there’s no wax in there. I’m also getting tightness in the big muscle that goes down my neck on that side as well. If anyone else has experienced anything similar, I’d be interested to hear about it. I do have some sinus trouble and my Doc yesterday spotted some small nasal polyps so of course I’ve been Googling away merrily, thinking of someone I know who had horrific problems with them and worrying.
Back to the ear…went to ENT, they found nothing. Have lost count of the number of doctors trips and dental trips-to a dentist who’s a jaw specialist. No-one found anything, I felt it was aggravated by worry so went to the Doc about that and got prescribed Mirtazapine. Not sure what I thought it might do or how it might make me feel but I’m still spending much more of my time overly anxious than not.
I dunno, I seem to be in a cycle where I wake up worried and then feel symptoms and then worry more and when things don’t ease, guess what, I worry even more. I don’t think I can remember what it feels like to wake up and not be worrying yourself silly about something. I just seem to be losing motivation in things, seem to be sleeping a lot, cancelling trips out for fear of having a panic attack or going dizzy. Have had a couple of panic attacks in meetings at work. Managed to cover it up each time but it’s terrifying and then leaves you frightened of a similar situation coming up again.
Sorry for moaning so long. It helps to type it all out.
Thanks for listening…
I've been suffering from Health Anxiety for about 6 months now. Well, it’s been going on a bit longer but it’s in the last 6 months that I’ve started recognising it might be anxiety.
My problem seems to be focussing in on a particular symptom that might start quite small and then doesn’t clear up which then convinces me it’s serious. Like I had stomach problems a while back, convinced myself it was bowel cancer, could hardly walk for the pain some days, got referred for an ultrasound and there was nothing there. Even I could see there was nothing there onscreen and, guess what, it cleared up completely about a week later and has never returned.
The latest thing is ear problems – well just one ear to be exact. Feelings of sea-sickness, fullness, pains around the ear and also just feeling it needs clearing out though there’s no wax in there. I’m also getting tightness in the big muscle that goes down my neck on that side as well. If anyone else has experienced anything similar, I’d be interested to hear about it. I do have some sinus trouble and my Doc yesterday spotted some small nasal polyps so of course I’ve been Googling away merrily, thinking of someone I know who had horrific problems with them and worrying.
Back to the ear…went to ENT, they found nothing. Have lost count of the number of doctors trips and dental trips-to a dentist who’s a jaw specialist. No-one found anything, I felt it was aggravated by worry so went to the Doc about that and got prescribed Mirtazapine. Not sure what I thought it might do or how it might make me feel but I’m still spending much more of my time overly anxious than not.
I dunno, I seem to be in a cycle where I wake up worried and then feel symptoms and then worry more and when things don’t ease, guess what, I worry even more. I don’t think I can remember what it feels like to wake up and not be worrying yourself silly about something. I just seem to be losing motivation in things, seem to be sleeping a lot, cancelling trips out for fear of having a panic attack or going dizzy. Have had a couple of panic attacks in meetings at work. Managed to cover it up each time but it’s terrifying and then leaves you frightened of a similar situation coming up again.
Sorry for moaning so long. It helps to type it all out.
Thanks for listening…