Ryanthegunner
13-10-18, 10:28
Hi all,
Sorry for this really long post!
I believe this all started a month or two ago. I started a job as a lecturer in a college. It wasn't as I expected and caused be immense stress and anxiety and I left after just one week (had anxiety for 9 years but thought it would be fine). Soon after I noticed immense pain in my back, so reluctantly visited an osteopath after a week who told me I had a slipped disc at L5-S1. With this pain and being jobless I have become more and more anxious. The pins and needles in my feet/leg making me worrying I'm gonna lose them. I seem to have picked up on the osteopath saying if you have any pain in you testicles, problems with bladder or your bowels go to A&E immediately. On Wednesday of this week I saw a physio who said the same thing at the end of our session. Which obviously stuck with me?
On Thursday afternoon at around 4pm I believed I was feeling a tingling sensation/ aching in my testicles. So after much panic I called the non emergency NHS number, who told me to go to A&E. I waited 2 hours for a nurse who took blood pressure etc and said it was probably me worrying, I then waited 2 hours for a doctor who examined me and said everything seemed OK but wanted me to be checked by a surgeon to be sure. This was at 4am and they wanted me to stay overnight which caused me even more stress (never been stayed in a hospital) I said I didn't want to stay as the discomfort wasn't as bad anymore. Luckily a surgeon then came and checked me and said everything looked OK, pretty quickly.
We are now on Saturday and my anxiety is extermally bad worrying about this. I'm pretty sure what I'm feeling in my testicles is health anxiety as I've suffered from multiple things in the past (needing to pee every 5 minutes, immensely bloodshot eyes with no reason, feeling pain in my throat when I swallowed which was also nothing aswell as multiple other things).
In the back of my head I'm thinking they didn't do an MRI scan so how do they know my nerve isn't being touched by the disc? But also I'm pretty sure my anxiety is causing this discomfort. To note my urine, blood, blood pressure were all fine, my bladder and bowels are working as normal.
I think I just need some reassurance that I'm extermally anxious right now and what I'm feeling isn't any thing serious or maybe not even real. Has anyone experienced similar? Thanks to anyone that read this.
Sorry for this really long post!
I believe this all started a month or two ago. I started a job as a lecturer in a college. It wasn't as I expected and caused be immense stress and anxiety and I left after just one week (had anxiety for 9 years but thought it would be fine). Soon after I noticed immense pain in my back, so reluctantly visited an osteopath after a week who told me I had a slipped disc at L5-S1. With this pain and being jobless I have become more and more anxious. The pins and needles in my feet/leg making me worrying I'm gonna lose them. I seem to have picked up on the osteopath saying if you have any pain in you testicles, problems with bladder or your bowels go to A&E immediately. On Wednesday of this week I saw a physio who said the same thing at the end of our session. Which obviously stuck with me?
On Thursday afternoon at around 4pm I believed I was feeling a tingling sensation/ aching in my testicles. So after much panic I called the non emergency NHS number, who told me to go to A&E. I waited 2 hours for a nurse who took blood pressure etc and said it was probably me worrying, I then waited 2 hours for a doctor who examined me and said everything seemed OK but wanted me to be checked by a surgeon to be sure. This was at 4am and they wanted me to stay overnight which caused me even more stress (never been stayed in a hospital) I said I didn't want to stay as the discomfort wasn't as bad anymore. Luckily a surgeon then came and checked me and said everything looked OK, pretty quickly.
We are now on Saturday and my anxiety is extermally bad worrying about this. I'm pretty sure what I'm feeling in my testicles is health anxiety as I've suffered from multiple things in the past (needing to pee every 5 minutes, immensely bloodshot eyes with no reason, feeling pain in my throat when I swallowed which was also nothing aswell as multiple other things).
In the back of my head I'm thinking they didn't do an MRI scan so how do they know my nerve isn't being touched by the disc? But also I'm pretty sure my anxiety is causing this discomfort. To note my urine, blood, blood pressure were all fine, my bladder and bowels are working as normal.
I think I just need some reassurance that I'm extermally anxious right now and what I'm feeling isn't any thing serious or maybe not even real. Has anyone experienced similar? Thanks to anyone that read this.