LadyHomeLover
14-07-16, 19:55
Hello new friends! I have just joined and after reading a few threads I am not sure if I have HA. Maybe y'all can "diagnose" me?
I do not spend time worrying that I have or might get this, that or the other illness or disease. I don't even think about my health unless I am actually ill at the time.
What I do get is the physical symptoms of a panic attack when the slightest thing goes wrong with my body. And that makes whatever it is worse, which makes me panic more, rinse and repeat until I am in a frenzy of panic, petrified and unable to think straight.
So, for example, I experienced an episode of cardiac arrhythmia. I panicked and thought I was having a heart attack and dialled 999 for an ambulance. At hospital my heart put itself right and I felt a bit silly. Days later I told a friend and he said he gets it all the time and just ignores it, because it's harmless. He could not understand why I panicked.
Another example: I had really bad indigestion, for many hours, which didn't go away even with loads of antacid tablets, fizzy water, abstaining from food. I went into a panic attack, scared that my food had got blocked in my stomach and toyed with going to hospital to get my stomach pumped or something. When I told a friend he laughed and said, that's just indigestion, you silly sod.
Is this health anxiety, or panic syndrome? I don't seem to panic about anything else in my life, just when my body isn't working perfectly.
Thank you for any advice.
LHL
I do not spend time worrying that I have or might get this, that or the other illness or disease. I don't even think about my health unless I am actually ill at the time.
What I do get is the physical symptoms of a panic attack when the slightest thing goes wrong with my body. And that makes whatever it is worse, which makes me panic more, rinse and repeat until I am in a frenzy of panic, petrified and unable to think straight.
So, for example, I experienced an episode of cardiac arrhythmia. I panicked and thought I was having a heart attack and dialled 999 for an ambulance. At hospital my heart put itself right and I felt a bit silly. Days later I told a friend and he said he gets it all the time and just ignores it, because it's harmless. He could not understand why I panicked.
Another example: I had really bad indigestion, for many hours, which didn't go away even with loads of antacid tablets, fizzy water, abstaining from food. I went into a panic attack, scared that my food had got blocked in my stomach and toyed with going to hospital to get my stomach pumped or something. When I told a friend he laughed and said, that's just indigestion, you silly sod.
Is this health anxiety, or panic syndrome? I don't seem to panic about anything else in my life, just when my body isn't working perfectly.
Thank you for any advice.
LHL