anxiety pains ????

[Littlechopsxo]

hey guys! I’m due to travel quite a long distance down to see my mum and family on Monday. Recently I’ve been so paranoid about my health as I don’t have to have an “ episode “ when I’m there. I’ve always struggled really bad with health anxiety. The other night I had major chest pains in the left side of my body, sort of in my armpit,shoulder and into my chest! I called my gp and they said it sounded muscular. I was still paranoid so called nhs 24 who ALSO said it sounded muscular but nope my health anxiety got the better of me and I called again and they got me in, they checked my blood pressure and oxygen levels which were really good. They tried to reassure me it’s muscular. But guys I can’t shake this feeling I have a blood clot or it’s something cardiac related. But right now I’m focusing on blood clot. Now as I type this it’s 6am I’ve not slept yet I now have a pain in my right leg behind my knee/top calf are which I’m sure is where blood clots can be commonly found. I’m a mess. It’s really ruining my mood for going to visit family. Almost making me not want to go Incase anything happens. I was doing so so well recently and then BOOM 3 days before I go all of this happens 🙁 we leave on Monday morning too so in my head I’m pressuring myself to be better or get checked again by tomorrow latest. This might sound so so silly to some people, almost embarrassing for me. I really can’t help it, I wish I wasn’t like this 😥😥😥😥

Sorry for the long read guys xxxx

[Oshunlvr]

I'm sorry you are feeling this way. With anxiety some of our health issues are our imagination and some are not. We can also create health problems for ourselves. I've gone to the hospital before thinking I was having a heart attack, nope it was a panic attack. Do you you really think you have blood clots? What did the doc say?

[Littlechopsxo in reply to Oshunlvr]

hey thank you for responding, I just spoke to my doctor on the phone and he told me he thinks it is muscular as it doesn’t tick the boxes for cardiac or blood clot. When I went into the out of hours hospital they said the same thing. I just really can’t help but feel like I genuinely have a blood clot! Now with the pain in my leg which is also a sign. My body is exhausted 😓😓😓😓 I just wish I felt normal to enjoy my trip 😥

[Oshunlvr in reply to Littlechopsxo]

I know. Would it make you feel better to make some appointments for when you get home? Sometimes that helps, knowing you'll be checked out by your doc or maybe a a vascular doc? You could start taking a low dose aspirin every day, it does help thin the blood slightly.

[Littlechopsxo in reply to Oshunlvr]

I don’t know if I truly need to take the aspirin though? They Drs all made me feel a little silly questioning blood clot! My head is so scrambled because I don’t know what’s real anymore and what’s anxiety 😥 I think having my bloods taken to test for clots would help settle my mind a bit but I’m going away on Monday for 9 days, I’ll just be worried for 9 days 🥺! I wish I could just call up and say can I come get some bloods done and wait the 4 hours to get my results back but unfortunately it doesn’t work like that ☹️

[Oshunlvr in reply to Littlechopsxo]

Hmmm. You can always go to urgent care. Are you taking meds for anxiety?

[Littlechopsxo in reply to Oshunlvr]

my partner said something earlier along the lines of I need to give my body a break, I’m constantly stressed and tense and he said this for sure would cause muscle tension ect and tbh it did calm me down a little bit, now it’s not chest pain I’m obsessing over it’s legs cramp 😂😂 I’ve gone from a clot in the lung to a clot in the leg in under 24 hours ☹️☹️☹️

[Oshunlvr in reply to Littlechopsxo]

Oh, he's in the medical field, that should be really helpful. Is he having you slowly come off meds? I was dumb once and decided I didn't need meds anymore, talk about body pains! I wish I had someone in the medical field tell me I would be in major withdrawal!

[Greyhoundmommy]

I’m sorry to hear you are experiencing this. I have a pain in my left side, roughly above my stomach, that flares up when I’m stressed. Doc did an ultrasound and can’t see anything, but I certainly feel it. But, the less stressed I am the less I feel it, so there’s definitely a psychological/stress response aspect to it.

I try to remind myself that stress and worry cause physical issues, and that you can make things worse the more you worry about it. If there is something wrong, relaxing and resting and taking care of yourself gives your immune system a fighting chance to take care of it and heal.

I hope you feel better soon xxx