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Posted 8/3/2015 12:56 AM (GMT 0)
Hi all.

New here. I had a hospital trip this past week because I thought I was having bloody stools. Ever since then I've been having severe health anxiety. All I've been able to do is lay around and Google/focus on symptoms. I think I'm going insane. And now I feel like I'm having this bizarre heavines on both sides of my abdomen under the rib cage when breathing. :[ Has anyone had this? Also I just read the symptoms of heart failure and now I think I have that. :[
Posted 8/3/2015 1:11 AM (GMT 0)
Hi Risen and welcome!

I ams sorry you are dealing with these fears.:(

If I may ask a few more questions, so as to best help you?

Have you dealt with health anxiety, or generalized anxiety previously? What if any treatment have you sought for this?

What was the outcome of your bowel issue? Were you given a clean bill of health from your check up and tests?

Scaredy Cat
Posted 8/3/2015 1:15 AM (GMT 0)
I was diagnosed with major depression and anxiety while I was in the military. I was on Lexapro 40mg and welbutrin 300mg. But since I've been out I haven't had any treatment. I was given a rectal exam and blood tests and everything came out clean. But since then I've been obsessing over diseases that wouldn't show up on such tests. I've hardly eaten in a week.
Posted 8/3/2015 1:25 AM (GMT 0)
R.,

Okay, thanks that helps!

It sounds as if your anxiety challenges have morphed into worry about your physical state...or as it is commonly referred to now, health anxiety.

The good new this is treatable...and I encourage you to get started in this process as soon as possible.

Step one is to STOP symptom searching the internet. No one ever feels better or relief after doing so! It either leaves you with more aswers than you started with...or it scare you witless!

Instead of doing this...please spend your time and energy going through this material instead. It is effective self help for health anxiety.

Health Anxiety - A Self Help Guide:

http://www.nhs.uk/conditions/hypochondria/pages/introduction.aspx

Helping health Anxiety

http://www.cci.health.wa.gov.au/resources/infopax.cfm?Info_id=53

Health Anxiety- The Super Scanner

http://www.get.gg/docs/SuperScanner.pdf

(these are from our Resources top of the main page...there is other self help material, as well as health anxiety book recommendations there to be found!)



Also, when and if you can...please seek professional help for CBT treatment of your anxiety. This form of therapy is very successful for treating what you are going though.

I, and others are proof.:)

Keep posting with us as well. We understand exactly what you are going through...and will be here to support and cheer you on in your journey to recovery!

Talk to you soon,

S.C.
Posted 8/3/2015 1:28 AM (GMT 0)
My fiancee is getting really upset and frustrated with me because all I can do is lay around. And when I do get up and go out with her I start to feel dizzy and start freaking out and stuff. The most irritating part is that up until that hospital visit last week I was pretty much okay. I had some of the anxiety symptoms but they weren't dibillitating like they are now. :[
Posted 8/3/2015 1:37 AM (GMT 0)

Your relationship and quality of life...both great motivations to get pro-active in helping yourself find recovery!!

Here are more links for help with physical symptoms and panic...get going on practice of them...

and seek therapy help ASAP! :)

Self Help sites with breathing/relaxation exercises instructions

Panic attack relief exercises:

 

http://www.moodjuice.scot.nhs.uk/panic.asp

http://www.healthcentral.com/anxiety/c/73076/34334/breathing-lessons/

http://www.healthyplace.com/

http://www.stress-relief-exercises.com/

http://www.ehow.com/video_4405003_breathing-exercises-panic-attacks.html

http://www.psybersquare.com/anxiety/panic_relax_I

S.C.

Posted 8/3/2015 2:25 AM (GMT 0)
I went through something like that. Long-term anxiety and depression that I thought was under control. Then one day out of the blue it hit me like a ton of bricks and stayed strong (had two ER visits and a week in the hospital late last year). In retrospect, I was fighting the panic for many years and it finally broke through. I'm learning to live with it, but it's hard at time. Totally get the dizziness, wobbly legs, etc. You feel like your body is falling apart on you, but it isn't, just your mind running wild. A book I read that helped was "Hope and Help for your Nerves" by Dr. Claire Weekes. She talks about the biological basis for anxiety and panic and learning helped my coping skills go way up. Still take an AD and anti-anxiety med, but don't take as much as before.
Posted 8/3/2015 9:14 AM (GMT 0)
Hi

Welcome to the forum I am pleased you have found us as you can see you will get good support.

It does sound like you are dealing with health anxiety which can really take over your life if you let it I know as I have bad health anxiety myself. Do have a look at the links SC has given you as you will find good information there. The main thing to remember is to not google your symptoms this will only make your anxiety 100 x worse.

It is good news that you have had some tests done and they have come back all clear now you need to do the hard part and believe in those results.

Keep us posted.

Hibee
Posted 8/3/2015 3:37 PM (GMT 0)
Update: Had appointment this morning. Full blood panel again everything came back normal. Urine test however showed small chemical traces of blood and some calcium in urine. Doc assured me it was nothing to worry about and that I'm totally healthy but I don't know if i believe him. I'm still having all these symptoms that feel totally real.
Posted 8/3/2015 4:13 PM (GMT 0)
Also, Bam sorry I stopped chatting last night I took my Ambien and dozed off! I'll be on chat again tonight around the same time if you want to talk again!
Posted 8/3/2015 5:33 PM (GMT 0)
Risen,

Have you had kidney stones issues in the past...was this mentioned as a possibility?

Also, I have had blood in the urine with UTI's...very easily treatable!

Bottom line. If your doctor was not concerned, then neither should you be...try to put the burden of worry on your health care provider, where it belongs! :)

Keep posting, and get to work on those self help skills.;)

S.C.
Posted 8/3/2015 7:31 PM (GMT 0)
Hey Risen

Don't worry about last night. I figured either I bored you to death lol or you fell asleep.
Please stay off of google. I won't Google symptoms anymore because I know they always make my anxiety worse. Another think is do small steps. Go outside get some fresh air. But it in your head. You are a healthy 22 year old:). And if you weren't. You wouldn't have been able to join the military. So keep telling yourself that.
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