GrainneC
29-05-10, 17:29
Hi Everyone
Im new to this website & am a little scared of posting a thread but here goes...!
I am worrying to the point of almost being sick about having MS, around winter time 6 months ago at a time when I was v.anxious I got tingling / pins and needles in my toes on my left foot, I went to the doctor he said it is nothing so I went to a private phsio who gave me a full massage and the pins and needles went away..2 months later I got floaters in my eyes...I went to the hospital who said they could hardly see them and that it was nothing to worry about...
I have tried to relax and not think about my health but it is such a struggle EVERY SINGLE DAY! I thought I was getting better but recently had a stange numb feeling in my left toe, it only lasted a week and has gone now but I am noticing now that I get 'trapped nerves' everywhere that last just a few moments...like little pulses if that makes sense. The last few nights - but not every night - I have woke up with a dead arm..it is the side I sleep on and it goes away if I turn over but I just dont know if it is a symptom of MS or anxiety.
Im so sorry if this adds to other peoples anxieties & i tried to talk myself out of posting something but I dont know what to do!! Not many people know about my health anxiety... I think it all started after I had an ultrasound check up on a lump in my breast 2 years ago it was all fine but it seems to have triggered something inside me, I moved out from home last year & am getting married next year, my sister also suffers from health anxiety and we seem to make each other worse- I dont know if it is all getting on top of me...perhaps it is but I didnt think it was! So confused!
Sorry if this is all babble, I just dont know where else to express my worries!
Im new to this website & am a little scared of posting a thread but here goes...!
I am worrying to the point of almost being sick about having MS, around winter time 6 months ago at a time when I was v.anxious I got tingling / pins and needles in my toes on my left foot, I went to the doctor he said it is nothing so I went to a private phsio who gave me a full massage and the pins and needles went away..2 months later I got floaters in my eyes...I went to the hospital who said they could hardly see them and that it was nothing to worry about...
I have tried to relax and not think about my health but it is such a struggle EVERY SINGLE DAY! I thought I was getting better but recently had a stange numb feeling in my left toe, it only lasted a week and has gone now but I am noticing now that I get 'trapped nerves' everywhere that last just a few moments...like little pulses if that makes sense. The last few nights - but not every night - I have woke up with a dead arm..it is the side I sleep on and it goes away if I turn over but I just dont know if it is a symptom of MS or anxiety.
Im so sorry if this adds to other peoples anxieties & i tried to talk myself out of posting something but I dont know what to do!! Not many people know about my health anxiety... I think it all started after I had an ultrasound check up on a lump in my breast 2 years ago it was all fine but it seems to have triggered something inside me, I moved out from home last year & am getting married next year, my sister also suffers from health anxiety and we seem to make each other worse- I dont know if it is all getting on top of me...perhaps it is but I didnt think it was! So confused!
Sorry if this is all babble, I just dont know where else to express my worries!