crazygal
22-08-16, 23:03
I've been suffering with health anxiety since I was 16 (I'm 30 now). I've thought I've had everything from a defective heart to breast cancer. A few weeks ago I thought I had melanoma. Of course I was tested for all of these and thing turned up.
But now I think I have a disease that it is possible I have. I found out recently my dad has hep c. My mom and him have know for some time but I only recently found out about. The reason I'm worried that I might have hep c is that while growing up no one shared razors or toothbrushes but everyone shared nail clippers. I know there's a small risk of getting hep c through nail clippers but it is still possible. I'm trying to think back at anytime I cut myself on the nail clippers but I can't think of anything. But it doesn't mean I never did cut myself or ,y father never cut himself.
I plan on getting tested but I'm currently in a country that doesn't have the best medical care and won't be back in the US until next summer. I'm terrified that I'm hep c positive.
My rational mind is telling to stop freaking out but my HA mind is telling me that I most definitely have it.
I'm also a little mad at how my parents didn't know sharing nail clippers has hep c risk. My dad was diagnosed in the early 90's so I get there wasn't much knowledge on it back then. But still , it was very careless of them not to do research and put my mom, 4 siblings and I at risk for it by sharing nail clippers.
I can't stop crying. I'm so scared I have hep c. I know the risk is small but the fact there is a risk is freaking me out.
I keep trying to tell myself that it will come out negative like all the other test I've had in the past. But this feels very real as my father put all of us at risk for getting it.
Any advice to get through my anxiety until I'm able to get tested next year? I can't sleep and I'm getting terrible headaches from all of this because I can't stop crying.
But now I think I have a disease that it is possible I have. I found out recently my dad has hep c. My mom and him have know for some time but I only recently found out about. The reason I'm worried that I might have hep c is that while growing up no one shared razors or toothbrushes but everyone shared nail clippers. I know there's a small risk of getting hep c through nail clippers but it is still possible. I'm trying to think back at anytime I cut myself on the nail clippers but I can't think of anything. But it doesn't mean I never did cut myself or ,y father never cut himself.
I plan on getting tested but I'm currently in a country that doesn't have the best medical care and won't be back in the US until next summer. I'm terrified that I'm hep c positive.
My rational mind is telling to stop freaking out but my HA mind is telling me that I most definitely have it.
I'm also a little mad at how my parents didn't know sharing nail clippers has hep c risk. My dad was diagnosed in the early 90's so I get there wasn't much knowledge on it back then. But still , it was very careless of them not to do research and put my mom, 4 siblings and I at risk for it by sharing nail clippers.
I can't stop crying. I'm so scared I have hep c. I know the risk is small but the fact there is a risk is freaking me out.
I keep trying to tell myself that it will come out negative like all the other test I've had in the past. But this feels very real as my father put all of us at risk for getting it.
Any advice to get through my anxiety until I'm able to get tested next year? I can't sleep and I'm getting terrible headaches from all of this because I can't stop crying.