Help please

Ho BB,

I am sorry to hear of the fears you are battling currently. :( I know how difficult this is.

Remind me, have you been through therapy yet to find help? How about any other recovery options?

S.C.

Bb,

Talk with your doctor about the possibility of medication, and getting back into therapy. I went through CBT twice...and often another round can make all the difference!

Medication may allow you to calm, and be more receptive to the therapy.

We also have self help in our Resources specifically for health anxiety, so please make sure and take advantage of that!

Keep working to find your recovery. There is help and hope!

S.C.

Also remember, Dr Google is NOT a doctor! You will get as much false information as fact out there on the internet. The doctor that you've visited and who has examined you is the ONLY one who knows information about YOU! That is who I would put my trust in.

Strength to you!

I feel your pain Bluebell. I've had the same fears for 4 years now. Jaw pain always sends my mind to heart attack symptom for women and yet here I am 4 years later without a heart attack and even that isn't enough to stop that fear from entering my mind.
I have found that reminding myself to take it minute by minute without focusing on the pain in my jaw and refocusing myself on something else it stops the panic.
Breathe slowly and deeply for a few minutes and count your breaths in and out up to ten then start again, only focusing on the counts and the feeling of your breathing.
I know exactly how you feel. I hope this helps.

sorry your suffering 😔a thing that helped me a couple of years ago... not saying it helps everyone ... but it worked for me... i was so totally fed up with every twinge, odd sensation etc etc sending my brain into accute panic... that i got it into my head well if i am going to die , dont sit here in panic ..bring it on (sounds crazy now) but i stood up took a deep breath and started walking.... i was like a woman posessed , deep breath and walk and walk breathing and putting a smile on my face.eventually i calmed... went home and realised i hadnt died.. i felt so much better. since then if my anxiety gets really out of control ... stand it so long getting lower and lower then the fighter in me.... does the above again, weird how it helps... its a bit like giving myself a darn good pep talk. my partnr says im like forest gump .... i walk it off head held high and determined xxxx good luck and support my friend these people here will help and each day u will feel stronger ☺

Bluebell:

You said,

"I ended up in hospital Saturday with chest pains and had ecg done had bloods taken including one for clot and had chest X-ray all came back fine but I'm here this morning with pain in my right rib area and having pain in my right arm and thinking arm pain is heart problems even though doctors in hospital have told me I have no underlying heart problems but Dr google says that with women right arm pain is heart attack symptom so I'm terrified."

For many years, I had chest pain, went to several heart doctors, had several EKG's, one hospital visit, one dye test inside my thigh.

No problems found. My wife passed away from a long illness. So did the chest pain. We had very serious marital problems, but because of a child and buying a house together, we found it difficult to get out of that. Neither one of us wanted to give up the benefits of the marriage, even though the costs were very high.

The marriage problems had been going on so long, 29 years, I did not connect the chest pain with the stressful marriage. So I know what chest pain and stress is.

If you're not getting out, as with volunteer work at a hospital or walking dogs at a dog pound or visiting at a senior citizens home, you may be forcing yourself to focus on your own problems, rather than looking out and helping someone else with their problems.

gilly- i did same thing when i was at my worst back in 07. i had finally had enough also . and bluebell-most of us have been tru this same song and dance as you are going tru now. just take some comfort that all heart tests have come back negative and hang in there.