health anxiety

I kept talking to ppl about my health anxiety but not many understands. Some deem me as negative and they do not want me around.

I chatted with a friend today and she kept encouraging me to be positive, she can sense my tension and anxieties while talking to me, especially when she shared with me her sister who has been dealing with depression, has an colon cancer.she showed no symptoms except for long term gastric pain, which is frecentlyund out during colonoscopy. And that triggered my Health anxiety to the maximum level. I felt giddy, anxious and cold feet.

As recently I also feel my left abdominal, gastric, spleen or what to be uncomfortable. I either feel some cramp or some little pain, I don't know. Like some pressure there.

I had a health check up in march, where they checked blood test n stools. OK.

I can't help feeling paranoid and anxious.

Nothing done. Still trapped in this hell hole.

fireworks,

Are you working with a therapist? Have you consulted with a psychiatrist for an eval to see if medication, too, might be an option for you (especially if, of course, you have ruled out physical problems and gotten the OK from your doc)?

I find this to be a very helpful place to turn. The power of self-help sometimes needs a little jump-start! :)






M.

I feel grateful for your replies. Thank you very much. I felt blessed to have real people talking sense to me and online friends giving me that needed encouragement.

This HA has tormented me long enough and I want to get out of it forever. It has make me lost all the precious moments I should be enjoying with my loved ones.

Constantly worrying of " what ifs" or what's gonna come next. It's sickening. I remembered I have had HA before few years ago but I quickly snapped out of it. Some stressful incidents triggered it to come back with a huge vengeance. So here I am.. keep wanting assurances and reassurance.

Fireworks, I would definitely recommend talking to your doctor about this. It's hard enough to deal with by yourself and also hard to explain to people how you're feeling and they don't understand. It is hard trying to explain how you're feeling and they haven't been through something similar. My health anxiety got to the stage where it was affecting my eating and knew I needed help. Most of us here have either gone through or are going through the same thing you are going through. Sending hugs.

A x