jonowalks
10-01-17, 16:13
Hi guys
I've been a severe health anxiety sufferer for many years on a fairly bearable scale and probably the last couple of years at an altogether more serious level. I'm talking multiple heart beat checks (heart attack is my biggest fear), blood pressure checking, not going out for fear of collapsing somewhere and other general OCD like checking. The reason for my ramp up in symptoms was when my wife was diagnosed with primary breast cancer and its remained at a high level since. Just before Christmas we got some really shitty news and my wife's cancer has spread to her bones which is incurable. Obviously we felt a lot of stress from this diagnosis but we were coping (her a LOT better than me) but in the build up to her CT scan my stress levels went through the roof. I was obviously expecting the absolute worse and terrified about bringing our child up on my own as a widow in the very near future (we're only young, in our thirties). As it goes the cancer hasn't spread to any organs which is the best possible news in the relative circumstances but the day after I woke up with intense anxiety which lasted all day long. I've not felt it that bad since I briefly had a course of fluoxetine which completely wiped me out mentally. The last two days since then I have been absolutely wiped out, like about to collapse tired. I'm managing to function but feeling just terrible.
My question I guess is could this be brought on by the stress of what's going on and waiting for the CT results? I just feel exhausted and drained mentally, emotionally and physically. Has anyone else experienced similar?
I've been a severe health anxiety sufferer for many years on a fairly bearable scale and probably the last couple of years at an altogether more serious level. I'm talking multiple heart beat checks (heart attack is my biggest fear), blood pressure checking, not going out for fear of collapsing somewhere and other general OCD like checking. The reason for my ramp up in symptoms was when my wife was diagnosed with primary breast cancer and its remained at a high level since. Just before Christmas we got some really shitty news and my wife's cancer has spread to her bones which is incurable. Obviously we felt a lot of stress from this diagnosis but we were coping (her a LOT better than me) but in the build up to her CT scan my stress levels went through the roof. I was obviously expecting the absolute worse and terrified about bringing our child up on my own as a widow in the very near future (we're only young, in our thirties). As it goes the cancer hasn't spread to any organs which is the best possible news in the relative circumstances but the day after I woke up with intense anxiety which lasted all day long. I've not felt it that bad since I briefly had a course of fluoxetine which completely wiped me out mentally. The last two days since then I have been absolutely wiped out, like about to collapse tired. I'm managing to function but feeling just terrible.
My question I guess is could this be brought on by the stress of what's going on and waiting for the CT results? I just feel exhausted and drained mentally, emotionally and physically. Has anyone else experienced similar?