busybeingmum
12-03-10, 15:06
Hello all - thought I'd introduce myself. I've been viewing this site for months now and feel it is time to join in. It has been a huge help to me and I now understand this horrid HA far more.
My HA started 18 months ago following a breast cancer scare. When my baby was 6months old I found a lump in my breast. I was still breast feeding but the doctor sent me to the breast clinic just for a check. The clinic scared the life out of me. They gave me an ultra sound and said they saw a "mass". They wanted to do a biopsy there and then. This was horrid as they went through milk ducts.
I had to wait a week for the results. In the meantime we were packing up the house to move. I was to get the results on moving day - arghhhhh.
The week was so awful. I experienced extreme anxiety for the first time. I really thought I was going to die and leave my beautiful children. Poor hubby couldn't support too much as was packing house. My lovely mum came to support me.
To make matters worse I had to go to A&E as the biopsy wound started to leak milk - so grim.....
The day of the results was wierd (I was so far gone with anxiety I was almost calm). Brilliantly the mass was benign! I went from extreme depression to julilation! I then had to pick up mum and the kids and drive to new house.
On the way I started to feel really ill. By the next day I was sent to hospital where I spent 5 days on a drip with the worst mastitis the doctors had ever seen (infection due to biopsy). My breast was such a mess. I was devastaded as I had to stop feeding baby and he'd never had a bottle. I think this is when the HA started.
After a few weeks I started believing I was riddled with cancer. My chest went tight for hours on end and my breast hurt like fury. In the end I went to the docs who was amazing. She sent me to the breast clinic for reasurrance and sorted CBT for me. After a few months I felt back to my normal self.
Then I developed stomach problems and the HA reared its head again....Since then I have worried about stomach cancers, women's cancers, even throat cancer. I have been so down and worried and can't get morbid thoughts out of my head. I have ruined precious times with my young family.
This site has made me understand that my condition is HA and I am trying to battle it. Some days are really good then I get a pain and I go back to square 1. I am currently feeling pretty good but have had a bad neck since crimbo and worry that I have a growth in it (husband says I am crazy)!
Love you No More Panic! xxxxxxx
My HA started 18 months ago following a breast cancer scare. When my baby was 6months old I found a lump in my breast. I was still breast feeding but the doctor sent me to the breast clinic just for a check. The clinic scared the life out of me. They gave me an ultra sound and said they saw a "mass". They wanted to do a biopsy there and then. This was horrid as they went through milk ducts.
I had to wait a week for the results. In the meantime we were packing up the house to move. I was to get the results on moving day - arghhhhh.
The week was so awful. I experienced extreme anxiety for the first time. I really thought I was going to die and leave my beautiful children. Poor hubby couldn't support too much as was packing house. My lovely mum came to support me.
To make matters worse I had to go to A&E as the biopsy wound started to leak milk - so grim.....
The day of the results was wierd (I was so far gone with anxiety I was almost calm). Brilliantly the mass was benign! I went from extreme depression to julilation! I then had to pick up mum and the kids and drive to new house.
On the way I started to feel really ill. By the next day I was sent to hospital where I spent 5 days on a drip with the worst mastitis the doctors had ever seen (infection due to biopsy). My breast was such a mess. I was devastaded as I had to stop feeding baby and he'd never had a bottle. I think this is when the HA started.
After a few weeks I started believing I was riddled with cancer. My chest went tight for hours on end and my breast hurt like fury. In the end I went to the docs who was amazing. She sent me to the breast clinic for reasurrance and sorted CBT for me. After a few months I felt back to my normal self.
Then I developed stomach problems and the HA reared its head again....Since then I have worried about stomach cancers, women's cancers, even throat cancer. I have been so down and worried and can't get morbid thoughts out of my head. I have ruined precious times with my young family.
This site has made me understand that my condition is HA and I am trying to battle it. Some days are really good then I get a pain and I go back to square 1. I am currently feeling pretty good but have had a bad neck since crimbo and worry that I have a growth in it (husband says I am crazy)!
Love you No More Panic! xxxxxxx