Strange pulsing in the bottom of my back.

[Jamesy3190]

There ain't any aching in my lower back. Just a fluttering/twitching.

[Carys]

So, its 'jittering' nerve or muscle, temporary and of no concern. (Probably caused by something like a strained posture at some point.) The thing is Jamsey - you need to accept that human bodys do things, they have strange little quirks and aren't 100 percent perfect at all times, but is also pretty darned good at solving problems and healing itself. Acceptance that minor things just 'happen' and being able to put them out of your mind is important.

[Jamesy3190]

I have health anxiety, so that is why I am like this. I had it since November, when I had to go into hospital for my appendix, I thought it was going to explode, so since then, I have always worried about what they body will have or do next. So this is why I am concerned. Sorry if I am being annoying for you all.

[MyNameIsTerry]

I've had nerve spasms in that area for years, even before my anxiety started if I was suddenly feeling pressurised. It's a throb.

If it's like that it's probably a nerve spasm.

[Jamesy3190]

I do try to ignore them but since my scare last year, I can't do it.

[Jamesy3190]

Thankyou Terry, I just hate having this Health Anxiety.

[Carys]

NO, you aren't annoying, we are VERY VERY used to responding to HA sufferers on here - its the most used board on the forums. I can see that you now fear something 'odd and unexplained' happening, as it nearly did last time, I get it, but you must have had very obvious and clear symptoms that time. You need to try now to start differentiating between minor and just mildly annoying and - OH this 'really doesn't feel right'. As you are no doubt aware, at the moment any bodily sensation has become a threat to you, and it doesn't need to be that way.

I just hate having this Health Anxiety.

Have you been offered any real life help with it Jamesy ?

[Jamesy3190]

They have put me on antidepressants to try and control it. Plus it don't help I don't get much sleep.

[ankietyjoe]

I have health anxiety, so that is why I am like this.

Nobody really has health anxiety, it's a learn behavioural problem. As I mentioned earlier the issue is your hyper vigilance. The only way to beat health anxiety is to practice not focusing on every little thing and intercepting catastrophic thought patterns.

Spending your life assuming the worst and elevating minor sensations into fatal conditions is no way to live, right?

[Jamesy3190]

True I just want to get rid of all these thoughts and get back to my old self. I was perfectly fine before November last year. I would get a pain and I would be like, it will go and now its what if it never goes or worse. I don't like that. I really don't.