I just wanted to thank everyone for their kind words on my last posts!
No food poisoning! Thankfully! I am having some stomach troubles. But that isn’t really anything new for me. I’ve been dealing with this for a while. I have a colonoscopy scheduled next month. I keep trying to tell myself that all of this is no different than what I have experienced before and that I will be okay, but it can be hard to remind myself that.
I wish I could rid myself of all of my health anxiety and my extreme fear of throwing up
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Thanks for the update. Good to hear that you are feeling a little better.
There is a very excellent resource online for sufferers of health anxiety provided by the Centre for Clinical Interventions.
I have included the website address below and quoted information about health anxiety directly from the site. At the bottom of the screen are two resources:
"To worry about your health is a normal human experience.
Health anxiety refers to the excessive concern that there may be a threat to your health which triggers your anxiety (fight/flight) response.
Health anxiety is problematic when it is excessive, out of proportion to the realistic chances of having a serious problem, persists despite negative tests and reassurance from health professionals, leads to excessive unhelpful behaviours such as body-checking and medical test-seeking, and causes you significant distress or impacts on your functioning.
Health anxiety can exist in people who are “healthy”, in people who are experiencing real yet unexplained medical symptoms, and in people who have an existing and diagnosed medical condition. In health anxiety the issue is not whether your physical symptoms are real, but whether you are responding to and coping with your symptoms in a helpful or unhelpful way.
Some people with health anxiety can be very attuned to noticing sensations in their body, and may become highly anxious when they notice a change. If this is an issue for you, you might find our resources helpful"
you’re doing good Daisy. so glad it was not food poisoning. colonoscopy, i recently read on here Sillysausage234 is an aficionado in that sort of thing.
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