agingwuss
17-05-16, 12:45
I’ve been away from this forum for nearly four years now! You kind empathic people saved my sanity when my HA was up & running away with me, but I really felt that (with your help) I’d kicked it. Perhaps not 100% but I’d got it down to the occasional niggle that I could well deal with.
But here it is again, as large as life & twice as ugly! :weep:I think it started creeping back earlier this year when all those celebrities died at once. (I was especially upset about Alan Rickman as he was one of my heroes & I’d actually met him twice – a lovely man.) And last week a work colleague of mine died of cancer; I hadn’t worked with him very much & didn’t know him well but whenever I’d met him he’d been a lovely guy. He was the same age as me & someone at work said he’d ignored some symptoms. I was careful not to ask what they were & I don’t know if that was true anyway but this immediately got my HA going into overdrive.
I’ve occasionally had heartburn in the past & thought nothing of it but it has suddenly cropped up again & I can’t seem to stop myself thinking the worst.
Thanks for listening to this long burble! The basic question I want to ask is – it is possible for increased anxiety to cause increased acid production & thus heartburn? Has anyone else had this happen? I really do NOT want to google.
But here it is again, as large as life & twice as ugly! :weep:I think it started creeping back earlier this year when all those celebrities died at once. (I was especially upset about Alan Rickman as he was one of my heroes & I’d actually met him twice – a lovely man.) And last week a work colleague of mine died of cancer; I hadn’t worked with him very much & didn’t know him well but whenever I’d met him he’d been a lovely guy. He was the same age as me & someone at work said he’d ignored some symptoms. I was careful not to ask what they were & I don’t know if that was true anyway but this immediately got my HA going into overdrive.
I’ve occasionally had heartburn in the past & thought nothing of it but it has suddenly cropped up again & I can’t seem to stop myself thinking the worst.
Thanks for listening to this long burble! The basic question I want to ask is – it is possible for increased anxiety to cause increased acid production & thus heartburn? Has anyone else had this happen? I really do NOT want to google.