Sazzy28
29-06-14, 17:21
Hello,
I'm pretty sure there are people on here who have experienced this. I have had quite a rocky past year with health anxiety and general anxiety which has affected everything from my relationship to my work. In the last year I've had multiple tests including blood tests, urine tests, stools tests, x2 pelvic examinations, a pelvic ultrasound and most recently a colonoscopy. All of which showed up nothing. Things got really bad between January and April but since then I have started pulling myself out of it through counselling, running, a low dose of anti anxiety meds and a change in work situation. I have been feeling a great deal better mentally for the last month.
Having got an all clear from my colonoscopy last week I've now started getting paranoid about cervical cancer, absolutely convincing myself this is what I have now. It has kicked off badly today for the first time in ages as I had a tiny bit of blood after having sex with my husband last night and this is the second time this has happened lately. Teamed up with some strange breakthrough bleeding at the start of the year and excess vaginal mucus on and off (which I think i've been mistaking for mucus with my stool) , I'm now totally convinced I have cervical cancer. My last PAP smear was clear and I think I'm due one very soon and like I mentioned before I have had a couple of 'normal' pelvic examinations where the GP took swabs which showed nothing. I'm trying really hard to rationalize and put everything into perspective and remembering what I've done with my counselling but I'm really struggling today.
I'm wondering whether to go back to my GP again about this stuff but I don't want to set the anxiety off again with more testing etc for cervical cancer now. However, I'm not sure I can just ignore this stuff as that creates crazy amounts of anxiety too.
Can anybody offer some advice?? It would be greatly appreciated as I've posted on forums before and nobody has replied to me.
Sarah.xx
I'm pretty sure there are people on here who have experienced this. I have had quite a rocky past year with health anxiety and general anxiety which has affected everything from my relationship to my work. In the last year I've had multiple tests including blood tests, urine tests, stools tests, x2 pelvic examinations, a pelvic ultrasound and most recently a colonoscopy. All of which showed up nothing. Things got really bad between January and April but since then I have started pulling myself out of it through counselling, running, a low dose of anti anxiety meds and a change in work situation. I have been feeling a great deal better mentally for the last month.
Having got an all clear from my colonoscopy last week I've now started getting paranoid about cervical cancer, absolutely convincing myself this is what I have now. It has kicked off badly today for the first time in ages as I had a tiny bit of blood after having sex with my husband last night and this is the second time this has happened lately. Teamed up with some strange breakthrough bleeding at the start of the year and excess vaginal mucus on and off (which I think i've been mistaking for mucus with my stool) , I'm now totally convinced I have cervical cancer. My last PAP smear was clear and I think I'm due one very soon and like I mentioned before I have had a couple of 'normal' pelvic examinations where the GP took swabs which showed nothing. I'm trying really hard to rationalize and put everything into perspective and remembering what I've done with my counselling but I'm really struggling today.
I'm wondering whether to go back to my GP again about this stuff but I don't want to set the anxiety off again with more testing etc for cervical cancer now. However, I'm not sure I can just ignore this stuff as that creates crazy amounts of anxiety too.
Can anybody offer some advice?? It would be greatly appreciated as I've posted on forums before and nobody has replied to me.
Sarah.xx