Worries and Fears About Sepsis

[mischamoonlight]

I've been seeing a lot about Sepsis on the TV recently, in due to the virus, and its one of those things that I get really scared about, and really causes my anxiety to get worse, fearing about it. The doctor literally said, ''he was find that day, then went to bed, and woke suddenly unable to breathe''. Out of nowhere. That stuff frightens me so much.

I'm 32 woman, I get bouts of IBS, and it scares me that I may get an infection from that even that could lead to Sepsis. I'm Hypothyroid too, so not sure if that makes me immune system slower too, this stuff really causes me so much distress thinking about and worrying about. Even my stone and a half overweight causes me stress because of the health risks. Honestly.

I'm not sure, as I don't know much about Sepsis, I only hear that it can happen out of nowhere, and works rapidly, and is life threatening, which is causing me so much anxiety at the moment thinking about and worrying about and hearing doctors explain it like that makes it worse. I don't know how to feel at the moment, other than very worried and stressed about it.

I worry about any infection causing Sepsis and it being so frightening.

And my temperature today was 98.4-98.6. Which is higher than normal for me, which is usually between 96.9-98.0, so not sure if I should be really worried about that, or if its just the humidity.

[Scass]

Mischa,
I hope it helped to write that down? Read it back a few times and see if you can see the signs that you’re basically adding 2+2 and reaching 67000.
Also, I find it helps if I just don’t watch anything medical, try that maybe?

Ps. Nice to see you anyway. I hope your family are well x


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[Pamplemousse]

I'm not sure, as I don't know much about Sepsis, I only hear that it can happen out of nowhere, and works rapidly, and is life threatening, which is causing me so much anxiety at the moment thinking about and worrying about and hearing doctors explain it like that makes it worse. I don't know how to feel at the moment, other than very worried and stressed about it.

It's very rare, and I know the effect it has on the human body because I watched my wife die from it. When she died, she had a temperature of 111 and was under a blanket of circulating iced water in intensive care. Ten years ago insufficient attention was paid to it, now they do.

[mischamoonlight]

Hi @Scass Sometimes it does help to write it down, so I can look back on my thoughts at that time, honestly. It's probably not helping that the bungalow we live in is heavily insulated and the temperature is 25 Celsius and above the last couple weeks, so the house is very humid and warm and is probably contributing to feeling 'uneasy'.

Nice to hear from you too Scass, hope life is being kind to you and your family, worlds kinda crazy at the moment, so this can be a nice quiet corner of the world to know you don't feel alone.

I'm not too bad, family are good, making sure my parents are cared for well, mum is on her pain medications and seems to be helping, so everyone is doing okay :hugs:

[mischamoonlight]

Hi @Pamplemousse I'm so sorry to hear about your wife, hope I didn't sound insensitive in anyway. I didn't know it was rare, the way they talk about it, makes it seem very differently, especially on TV and such, but thank you for telling me this. It is a positive that they are more aware of these things now, than they were 10 years ago. I often struggle to structure my thoughts logically when I get very worried about something.

Sending my best, Mischa x

[ankietyjoe]

You need to stop watching stuff like this on TV tbh. It serves no purpose whatsoever.

[Pamplemousse]

Hi @Pamplemousse I'm so sorry to hear about your wife, hope I didn't sound insensitive in anyway. I didn't know it was rare, the way they talk about it, makes it seem very differently, especially on TV and such, but thank you for telling me this. It is a positive that they are more aware of these things now, than they were 10 years ago. I often struggle to structure my thoughts logically when I get very worried about something.

Sending my best, Mischa x

No problem, Mischa :). I know how it is only too well with these triggers. I found myself in A&E on Friday night and the Sepsis posters were everywhere, a grim reminder of what can happen. It's a public awareness thing - my old GP said that public awareness campaigns were great but they invariably brought the "worried well" to his door, not the target audience!

[pulisa]

You need to stop watching stuff like this on TV tbh. It serves no purpose whatsoever.

It's that morbid fascination with watching TV programmes which are a guaranteed health trigger though..followed by religious monitoring of temperature/heartbeat etc The more frightening, the more it's really hard to resist..?

[Scass]

It's very rare, and I know the effect it has on the human body because I watched my wife die from it. When she died, she had a temperature of 111 and was under a blanket of circulating iced water in intensive care. Ten years ago insufficient attention was paid to it, now they do.

I’m so sorry to read this Pamplemousse. I know you only wrote it to give an insight, but I didn’t know and wanted to say sorry.


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[mischamoonlight]

Yeah, it's so horrible, and everything going on at the moment, I'm checking and checking my temperature, so any rise causes me panic as well. I did it just a short while ago and it was 37.1, which completely freaked me out and caused me to feel panicky once again cause its never that high for me. It wasn't that high this morning. I've also been getting sharp shooting pains in the back of my head since this morning, so that's triggered me as well, so been feeling very tense. I have a terribly habit of fixating on something, especially health things, and becomes a focus.

Hope your A&E wasn't too serious and your better now though! I understand about the posters around everywhere, makes it really hard to not be exposed in some way or another. I just get scared of even getting a virus and thinking it will escalate into something deadly, and being hyper focused on my temperature all the time has me exhausted too and more scared than anything.

But thanks again, hope all is well with you, Mischa x

[pulisa]

Do you think you would "miss something" if you stopped taking your temperature, Mischa? How does it help you?

[mischamoonlight]

I don't usually watch much TV to be honest, but when I flicked the station and they were talking about the virus and Sepsis in relation I just kept watching, and that's when the doctor started going on about his experience and such with it, and that triggered me the instant he said it was sudden out of nowhere. Silly really I know, but some things just get in your head.

Honestly stop watching most of that when I see it on the TV.

[pulisa]

I don't usually watch much TV to be honest, but when I flicked the station and they were talking about the virus and Sepsis in relation I just kept watching, and that's when the doctor started going on about his experience and such with it, and that triggered me the instant he said it was sudden out of nowhere. Silly really I know, but some things just get in your head.

Honestly stop watching most of that when I see it on the TV.

"I just kept watching"...lethal with HA!

[mischamoonlight]

Yeah, I totally get that, I really do. I had to stop watching all those Ambulance programmes and health, even the ones where people are trying to lose weight and start going on about all the health issues related to weight, which can be a trigger too, for someone like me anyway, you think anything that passes your lips is bad then.

Last few months I've been ridiculously devout about taking my temperature, and what set me off was watching that programme, then later that night before going to bed checking my temp and seeing it was 37.0 and that sent me into full blown panic, because being Hypothyroid I'm use to my temp being between 35.9 to 36.7 at highest. And I took it again just a short while ago, and it was 37.1, and that has really freaked me out too, as I've not had it that high in a really long time. I know its not scary high but its enough to have me distressed about it. Doesn't help since this morning having a sharp shooting pain in the back of my head that comes in a short few second burst and then goes, comes and goes. Probably from the stress I induce in myself.

So yeah, its a terribly OCD thing I've gotten into, and I broke out of it a couple times but then I'd go back to doing it again, mainly because I write in my diary every night and it became part of that habit as well that I would add in. I don't know, sometimes I struggle so hard to focus at all, sometimes I feel like I go blank and can't think what to say, or that I'm going mad cause I can't settle down properly.

Sorry, ramble a bit there lol! But yeah, I do agree with the fascination and religiousness of monitoring all of it too.

[mischamoonlight]

Sorry, I didn't see this reply! Yeah, it feels like I'll miss something if I don't keep a close eye on everything, that if I take my eyes away, something terrible will happen. Sounds mad I know, but its how it makes me feel when I don't, I get antsy, and agitated and then upset and scared. It's actually very distressing.

[pulisa]

You are going to react badly with any minute change in your temperature. It will unsettle you and cause your thoughts to spiral to worse case scenario. Yet if you don't monitor yourself you fear missing something ominous? So you can't win unless you chuck the thermometer away and go cold turkey because there are no half measures with this.