KatieJayne
15-01-19, 21:17
Hello everyone. I’m having a very bad time of Health Anxiety at the moment. I had a pregnancy loss in August, and had many complications following this for many months. During that time I guess I lost faith in the NHS - I was told things (even by ultrasound) which turned out to be completely wrong and as a result, this has led to a real bad Health Anxiety period.
Im currently suffering with a kidney infection and I’m on antibiotics. However I’m convinced they’ve got it wrong. I’m not asking for a medical opinion on this, but to give you some reasons, there were no white blood cells in my urine. There was however a trace of blood. They mainly went on the symptoms I told them. My antibiotics don’t seem to be helping (day 4 of a 7 day course) and I’m symptom spotting, googling, making appointments left right and centre and struggling to stay focused at work. I’m convincing myself my back pain/pelvic pain isn’t kidney infection related but is cervical cancer related so have panic booked a smear.
I’m beyond tired and I was wondering...is there anyone out there with any success stories re: health anxiety? How can I break these thoughts? How can I try and stay rational?
And how do you separate actual symptoms from ‘anxiety induced symptoms’?! I almost don’t trust my own judgement anymore!
Thank you in advance!
Im currently suffering with a kidney infection and I’m on antibiotics. However I’m convinced they’ve got it wrong. I’m not asking for a medical opinion on this, but to give you some reasons, there were no white blood cells in my urine. There was however a trace of blood. They mainly went on the symptoms I told them. My antibiotics don’t seem to be helping (day 4 of a 7 day course) and I’m symptom spotting, googling, making appointments left right and centre and struggling to stay focused at work. I’m convincing myself my back pain/pelvic pain isn’t kidney infection related but is cervical cancer related so have panic booked a smear.
I’m beyond tired and I was wondering...is there anyone out there with any success stories re: health anxiety? How can I break these thoughts? How can I try and stay rational?
And how do you separate actual symptoms from ‘anxiety induced symptoms’?! I almost don’t trust my own judgement anymore!
Thank you in advance!