Hey all.
just a bit of info needed, just seeing if anyone had my symptoms and turned out to be nothing.
it’s incredibly difficult to get to my doctors currently, so I’d like a bit of advice , if that’s ok, too.
yes I have health anxiety, it calms and then surges, but I’ve recently got it in to my head that all my worrying and crap food eating over the festive Season has either given me and ulcer or worse made it worse.
Ive had a strange stitch feeling in my lower left rib off and on since about November, thought it was tension or muscular so tired my best to ignore it.
Over Christmas I had a couple of tummy flare ups that either gave me a gripes feeling or made me feel incredibly sick.
last week I gobbled my way through a bag of chilli chocolates that I was given and then a spicy lamb dinner, the next morning I tried to eat breakfast and felt incredibly sick and bloated. Since then the nausea has calmed a bit, but I always have a really horrid knawing discomfort in the middle of my tummy. I’ve started taking gaviscon double action and stopped, fatty, spicy, chocolate, tea and coffee for now. I’m drinking camomile and ginger teas.
I’m so frightened that it’s a in diagnosed ulcer that I’ve left too long.
ive been terribly anxious almost all of last year. It calmed about around November and I’ve been reasonably ok.
but this stomach issue is sending me over the edge.
any tips or advice ? Has any one has similar and it went ok or does it sound similar to what you’ve had.
many thanks for reading
Sarah