Man Up Idiot!
28-09-10, 15:56
Hi,
What a great site, so glad I found it!
I had been searching for my symptoms on Google, probably about to convince myself I had some evil deadly disease for the two hundredth time! Now things make a lot more sense and I think I appreciate the help I've had from my GP a little more.
I guess I've had health anxiety to an extent for as long as I can remember, but this year since around March has been awful. I started off with a few symptoms which I convinced myself were cancer and it snowballed. I got to the stage two or three months ago where I wasn't sleeping and stopped eating. I really felt like I was going to pass out at work and got myself in a real panic.
My doctor sent me for blood tests and I stupidly had the test not long after a drinking session and needless to say my liver profile came back slightly elevated. This sent me into severe panic and anxiety until the follow up test came back normal.
Over the last few years I've had unexplained chest pains leading to me seeing a cardiologist, a lump in my neck which apparently only I could feel and lead to me seeing an ENT, having an MRI and larynoscopy (not fun), then IBS which I was convinced was bowel cancer and had ultrasounds and a very unpleasant examination to prove it wasn't.
I felt like my Doctor didn't know what was wrong and wasn't being that helpful, but now I realise he was right and has actually done a lot to try and help me. I have tried medication (sertraline) and that made me feel worse (I didn't really want to go down that route anyway) and I'm starting therapy, which I hope will do the trick!
Now I'm still going through the vicious cycle of insomnia and feeling dizzy and woozy a lot of the time, having a stressful job and working shifts doesn't help much (I'm a Cop!). But having read through this great forum I feel some relief in the idea that I'm not alone and that my irrational fears and feelings are just that.
Here's hoping we'll all be normal again soon!
Dan.
What a great site, so glad I found it!
I had been searching for my symptoms on Google, probably about to convince myself I had some evil deadly disease for the two hundredth time! Now things make a lot more sense and I think I appreciate the help I've had from my GP a little more.
I guess I've had health anxiety to an extent for as long as I can remember, but this year since around March has been awful. I started off with a few symptoms which I convinced myself were cancer and it snowballed. I got to the stage two or three months ago where I wasn't sleeping and stopped eating. I really felt like I was going to pass out at work and got myself in a real panic.
My doctor sent me for blood tests and I stupidly had the test not long after a drinking session and needless to say my liver profile came back slightly elevated. This sent me into severe panic and anxiety until the follow up test came back normal.
Over the last few years I've had unexplained chest pains leading to me seeing a cardiologist, a lump in my neck which apparently only I could feel and lead to me seeing an ENT, having an MRI and larynoscopy (not fun), then IBS which I was convinced was bowel cancer and had ultrasounds and a very unpleasant examination to prove it wasn't.
I felt like my Doctor didn't know what was wrong and wasn't being that helpful, but now I realise he was right and has actually done a lot to try and help me. I have tried medication (sertraline) and that made me feel worse (I didn't really want to go down that route anyway) and I'm starting therapy, which I hope will do the trick!
Now I'm still going through the vicious cycle of insomnia and feeling dizzy and woozy a lot of the time, having a stressful job and working shifts doesn't help much (I'm a Cop!). But having read through this great forum I feel some relief in the idea that I'm not alone and that my irrational fears and feelings are just that.
Here's hoping we'll all be normal again soon!
Dan.