Vet
21-10-15, 18:28
Hi,
I have joined this forum to see if anyone give some advice. First of all, I am a 49 year old that has suffered secretly with anxiety for around 20 years. It mainly involves anxiety around my health with every ailment being turned into a life threatening illness in my mind.
Usually this anxiety goes away with a visit to the doctor that gives me the all clear. This time though it's not working. First of all I had numbness in my leg and hand and went to the doctors, the doctor sent me for blood tests. At the same time I had a small lump come up in my mouth so went to the dentists as well. He gave me anti biotics but said if they didn't work he would have to do further examinations as it could be loose bone. This set the alarm bells ringing and I have now convinced myself I have oral cancer because the small lump still hasn't gone down despite the antibiotics being finished , furthermore the day after I visited the dentist I had a really large sore come up in my mouth and that hasn't cleared up either.
My blood test cam back fine apart from being borderline diabetes which I knew anyway but I was still getting the numbness so have been referred to a neurologist. Since my worrying about the lump has got worse the numbness has now stopped.
My question is twofold, does anyone know if anxiety can actually bring on things such mouth sores not the bump but the sore that came up the next day and things such as the numbness and lightheadedness I was getting which now seems to have gone. Secondly does anyone know a way of countering these negative thoughts because it's taken over my life now, I'm not doing anything I normally enjoy and have convinced myself I will be dead by xmas.
Sorry for the long post but if anyone could give me some advice I would really appreciate it.
I have joined this forum to see if anyone give some advice. First of all, I am a 49 year old that has suffered secretly with anxiety for around 20 years. It mainly involves anxiety around my health with every ailment being turned into a life threatening illness in my mind.
Usually this anxiety goes away with a visit to the doctor that gives me the all clear. This time though it's not working. First of all I had numbness in my leg and hand and went to the doctors, the doctor sent me for blood tests. At the same time I had a small lump come up in my mouth so went to the dentists as well. He gave me anti biotics but said if they didn't work he would have to do further examinations as it could be loose bone. This set the alarm bells ringing and I have now convinced myself I have oral cancer because the small lump still hasn't gone down despite the antibiotics being finished , furthermore the day after I visited the dentist I had a really large sore come up in my mouth and that hasn't cleared up either.
My blood test cam back fine apart from being borderline diabetes which I knew anyway but I was still getting the numbness so have been referred to a neurologist. Since my worrying about the lump has got worse the numbness has now stopped.
My question is twofold, does anyone know if anxiety can actually bring on things such mouth sores not the bump but the sore that came up the next day and things such as the numbness and lightheadedness I was getting which now seems to have gone. Secondly does anyone know a way of countering these negative thoughts because it's taken over my life now, I'm not doing anything I normally enjoy and have convinced myself I will be dead by xmas.
Sorry for the long post but if anyone could give me some advice I would really appreciate it.