glowworm
17-09-10, 12:46
Hi - I'm new here. I've had lots of problems in the past with health anxiety (thinking I had anything from MS to various cancers), but thought I was over the worst. I have had real health problems more recently and had to have surgery earlier this year. Funnily enough, my real problems haven't caused nearly as much anxiety as any imagined ones in the past.
The reason I am posting now is that I'm suddenly really anxious about my husband's health. He's been having abdominal pains on the right on and off for quite a while (usually just twinges), sometimes with nausea. He's also been having altered bowel habits (sometimes diarrhoea, sometimes constipation). He was initially wondering if it was IBS, but he's not so sure now. I know he needs to go and see the doctor, but the trouble is, we are supposed to be going on a big holiday in a week's time, to the USA. We've been looking forward to this for ages and feel like we really deserve it after what we went through earlier in the year with my operation and long recuperation.
We have a health insurance policy, of course, but I know that if he sees the doctor before we go, and there are any tests to be done, we won't be covered if he had to see a doctor while we are away (and that would be so expensive in the US). So our plan is to wait until we get back before he gets checked out. We'll be away for 3 weeks, so it would be a whole month before we can see a doctor! Part of me is really worried about this in case there is anything seriously wrong that needs to be looked at straight away. It seems mad to put a holiday above his health in importance, but on the other hand, if I'm blowing it out of proportion (as I usually do) and it's nothing serious, we don't want to jeopardise the trip.
I don't know what to do! I can't stop worrying and thinking the worst!
The reason I am posting now is that I'm suddenly really anxious about my husband's health. He's been having abdominal pains on the right on and off for quite a while (usually just twinges), sometimes with nausea. He's also been having altered bowel habits (sometimes diarrhoea, sometimes constipation). He was initially wondering if it was IBS, but he's not so sure now. I know he needs to go and see the doctor, but the trouble is, we are supposed to be going on a big holiday in a week's time, to the USA. We've been looking forward to this for ages and feel like we really deserve it after what we went through earlier in the year with my operation and long recuperation.
We have a health insurance policy, of course, but I know that if he sees the doctor before we go, and there are any tests to be done, we won't be covered if he had to see a doctor while we are away (and that would be so expensive in the US). So our plan is to wait until we get back before he gets checked out. We'll be away for 3 weeks, so it would be a whole month before we can see a doctor! Part of me is really worried about this in case there is anything seriously wrong that needs to be looked at straight away. It seems mad to put a holiday above his health in importance, but on the other hand, if I'm blowing it out of proportion (as I usually do) and it's nothing serious, we don't want to jeopardise the trip.
I don't know what to do! I can't stop worrying and thinking the worst!