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    anxiety about taking medications (allergic reactions, etc)

    Other people get this fear as well right....? I have had quite a lot of pain today and as well as my usual co-codamol I just decided to take some aspirin.

    I don't take aspirin very often so I worry I am going to get anaphylaxis or Stevens–Johnson syndrome or something.

    I know it is stupid as I have never been allergic to anything in my life nor had a serious bad reaction.

    Yet here I am having just taken some and feeling really anxious. In fact I feel that by even talking/writing about it I may be 'jinxing' myself somehow and making it happen.

    Ah well. If I am dead by the morning you guys know why... it was the damn aspirin!

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    Re: anxiety about taking medications (allergic reactions, etc)

    I take aspirin every day for my heart.... last I checked, I'm still here

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    Re: anxiety about taking medications (allergic reactions, etc)

    Quote Originally Posted by Fishmanpa View Post
    I take aspirin every day for my heart.... last I checked, I'm still here

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    It is silly how even knowing it is an irrational fear doesn't stop the immediate anxiety though!

    I feel a better now, it has been about 45mins since I took the pill so I think I'm safe enough now.

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