anxiousannie
20-10-09, 23:45
Hello
This is my first visit to the site and it's just so freaky that the Health Anxiety section seems to be my autobiography!!!
I have been suffering from Health related anxiety for about 18mths, my 2nd son was born six months previous to this and i had an horrendous labour (but that is another story for another time!!!) to add to this the day before I went into labour my father in law went to the supermarket and had a massive heart attack and died before the emergency services even got to him!! Emotional rollarcoaster or what!! I think I then went into coping over drive after this, trying to look after 2 young children, support my husband in losing his dad and get over my own problems through the difficult birth. Six months later I started feeling like I couldn't breathe, had pains in my chest and was convinced i also was having a heart attack.....and so it goes on.
I have got better in the last few months, I ve spoken to my GP lot's, still coping and fighting my way through it without any medication, had a bit of hypnotherpy to help me relax more and have lost some weight so have started feeling better about myself, but my worst time is when my husband is working on nights, the fear that something will happen to me and that my children will be on their own over whelms me.
So am I completely losing the plot or can anyone else out their relate to my story.
Would be nice to know I'm not alone.....
This is my first visit to the site and it's just so freaky that the Health Anxiety section seems to be my autobiography!!!
I have been suffering from Health related anxiety for about 18mths, my 2nd son was born six months previous to this and i had an horrendous labour (but that is another story for another time!!!) to add to this the day before I went into labour my father in law went to the supermarket and had a massive heart attack and died before the emergency services even got to him!! Emotional rollarcoaster or what!! I think I then went into coping over drive after this, trying to look after 2 young children, support my husband in losing his dad and get over my own problems through the difficult birth. Six months later I started feeling like I couldn't breathe, had pains in my chest and was convinced i also was having a heart attack.....and so it goes on.
I have got better in the last few months, I ve spoken to my GP lot's, still coping and fighting my way through it without any medication, had a bit of hypnotherpy to help me relax more and have lost some weight so have started feeling better about myself, but my worst time is when my husband is working on nights, the fear that something will happen to me and that my children will be on their own over whelms me.
So am I completely losing the plot or can anyone else out their relate to my story.
Would be nice to know I'm not alone.....