I really need one at the moment. Despite the fact that I had two days where my symptoms were nearly unnoticeable (even my poop was almost back to normal during those days!) and that they seem to be gradually improving, I keep focusing on various diseases and disorders and can't stop thinking that things are only going to get worse instead of better. My new preoccupation is fibromyalgia, but I also keep thinking that I have a food allergy, Celiac disease or an obscure vitamin deficiency. I'm even having MS thoughts again because I remember feeling a weird pressure against my stomach when my symptoms were at their worst, and I had slight urinary incontinence twice (this was right after reading about MS symptoms, though, and it hasn't happened since).
My symptoms are getting better even though I'm not doing anything new except going to therapy weekly and exercising (though they do wax and wane and I have days where they're worse than others), so isn't that proof that they're caused by anxiety? Why can't I just accept that they're anxiety-related?
I need to snap out of this. My symptoms would not be getting better without medication if I had something medically wrong, right? Do people with fibromyalgia have days with virtually no pain if they don't take medication? Can you even have fibromyalgia without "fibrofog" and chronic fatigue?
Thanks again for reading this, everyone. I hope that I'm not posting here too often.