Re: Exhausted & rundown with HA, chest & stomach issues
Originally Posted by
Aleman200
At the time I was happy to finally realise the difference between and actual emergency condition and an anxiety one. God that pain was awful.
Been there. No time for thoughts. Pain takes over. Were you scared, by the way? I wasn't, funnily enough. My imaginary illnesses though? TERRYIFYING!!
i've been walking 30 minutes a day to recover from my operation, which is great, until about 20 minutes in when I start to get chest ache and a slight shortness of breath, If i stop walking it dies down, if i carry on it flares up again and goes on and off during the walk.
You've recently had an operation, cocker. This is your body's way of telling you to take it slow and easy. Shorten the time you're walking down to 20, or 15.
I googled pain during excercise and got Angina/Heart Disease etc, you know the drill. And of course this absolutely terrified me.
Ok, first off you know what happens when you consult Doctor Google. Nothing good will ever come of that, so slap wristy and all that..
Secondly, it seems that you have been inactive since lockdown? Dare I suggest that you're unfit? - as is half of the UK at the minute.
Secondly since then, my appetite has gone to shit. I wasn't eating after the operation which they said was normal but it's been 2 weeks and my appetite is still gone.
It would take a non-anxious person a while for their appetite to return after an op, but you have health anxiety too, and fear doesn't half bugger about with appetite. I lost two stone on the HA nervous breakdown diet. I can report that I've bunged most of it back on now I've stopped trying to convince myself I'm dying.
If you got this far, thank you
. I don't know what else to do right now, I just had to vent my frustrations. I have my first therapy appointment next week and the citalopram is stacking up so, I'm not just sitting on my laurels and letting this rule my life entirely. But...any support would be appreciated. I'm so exhausted from the worry. I feel trapped in my own mind.
You're not as trapped as you think you are. You thought your way into this hole, and you can think your way out of it.
You're not mad. You're just as sane as I am.
__________________
A thought is harmless unless we believe it.