HA is ruining my life.

[Christianmitchell11]

Hello, My name is Christian, I'm 15 about to turn 16 and I'm worried I'm going to have to be rushed to the hospital with seizures,coma, or or problems. My worry is N Floweri.

I don't really know how to spell it but basically it is a brain eating amoeba that gains access to the brain through the nose. Usually people get it by swimming in warm lakes or rivers and some water goes up there nose and attacks their brain and kills them. I've already looked up everything. Researched everything. Symptoms,Risk factors, causes, treatment. Everything. I regularly use a neti pot because I have awful sinus problems and it normally does help alot. Well 3 days ago, 4 days tomorrow(it's 11 pm where I live) I was about to do the neti pot, and I was wondering when the best time to do it was. I don't know, I was wondering if it better to do it after your shower, before or whatever. I went on willow. I obviously know how to use it, but I was just looking for the best time to do it. I kept scrolling down and I got to the WARNING portion of the institutions. It said how you shouldn't use tap water and I normally do. I never boiled it, never heated it or anything. I just put hot tap water into the neti pot and put the saline salt in there and rinsed my sinuses. Well this totally freaked me out and I've been battling with health anxiety for a while now. I'm worried because I have a mild headache, no high fever, no nausea, no stiff neck( other than from me moving my neck to see if it's stiff), no throwing up, no loss of smell or changes in taste, and those are the main, first symptoms. Websites normally say 1-7 days when symptoms will occur and the serious ones set it about 1-14 days. Ultimately resulting in death. My anxiety has recently before this whole episode make me feel like I'm not myself and it's very troubling also. But back to the main problem. Has anyone ever worried about this or had a scare of this disease like this?? And I know it is EXTREMELY rare but we all know the little shit anxiety is and those " but what if" thoughts start creeping up and get to me. Thanks..

[steadfast66]

Share your fears with your parents. Have them to take you to a medical doctor to nullify your health worries. We often worry about things that will never happened, which means worrying for nothing. If you still have anxiety after medical clearance, see a psychotherapist. This can be very helpful if you find one who recommends natural remedies instead of medicals with bad side effects.

[Christianmitchell11 in reply to steadfast66]

I have and I have been regularly seeing a therapist, I'm just worried about this one disease/ whatever you want to call it. It's just really getting to me

[Christianmitchell11 in reply to steadfast66]

And I also have needed medical reassurance if you see my older post about my worries about my chest pains. I've since grown out of them and moved on from those worries. This one just feels so real.

[Greyen in reply to Christianmitchell11]

I have not diagnose with anxiety yet but the chest pains, dizzines, and whatever u feeling i what im feeling for 9 months now.. Its horrible u know and im waiting and waiting for a neurologist that my brain is alright because my tests came back normal even heart test name any tests i already done it.. Life must go on talk to anyone and whatever u feel the next day you will be still alive..

[steadfast66]

Tell yourself that you are okay and that the worries are just in your mind. You can control your controls by replacing them with positive ones. Google anxiety. Sometimes you can stumble upon some good methods for combating anxiety.

[Christianmitchell11 in reply to steadfast66]

Okay thank you. I will definitely try that. Thanks for giving me alittle piece of mind.

[steadfast66]

Trust God that your state of mind will not last long. I don't know if you are a Christian, but prayer helps.

[Christianmitchell11 in reply to steadfast66]

I am and have been, in my early years of puberty I rejected any kind of religion but since then I've found a new love for praying and giving my worry to god. It helps a lot

[steadfast66]

Then I will keep you in prayer for deliverance from worry. You are in God's hands. Nice meeting you Christian.

[Christianmitchell11 in reply to steadfast66]

Thank you and same to. God bless and I hope you have a goodnight/day

[steadfast66]

Good night. And try to concentrate on something else that you like doing.

[antianxiety]

Definitely praying for you as well even a little rash can cause an anxiety sufferer to freak out and google everything and anything on rashes abd usually Google will make things worse in the stress are. We all know how you feel. God bless and hold you close.

Xxxxxx

[Natsteveo]

Hello sweety u really are going through it aint u,babe im 41 and ive had health anxiety for almost 25 years so i can safely say ive had it most of my life and it really does suck!!!! It takes over your entire world i know the dr google symptom checked like majority of people on here you worry abt something and your first instinct is to check it out and what do u know all ur symptoms u r checking are bad but in reality sweety its our minds playing nasty tricks on us i can tell u for sure u will not have this n floweri its ur mind playing nasty tricks on you but when uconvince yourself you have it its a bitch to get it out your head. Thing is it will pass babe you will beat your ha eventually but whats worse is your mind will take you on to a different problem it alwats does ive had every brain tumour,stomach cancer,going but i know its all in my mind its lole ur battling with yourself everyday. After lots of therapy i realised my health anxiety had to b triggered off by an event mine was cuz i lost my grandad who was like a dad to me and then in 2007 i lost my mum to cancer so i was even worse im still suffering now.what im trying to say is your not alone babe we are all going thru this and it is normal you have to find a way of grabbing this by the balls abd showing it whos boss u have the HA it does not have you!!!!! Go see ur dr for reassurance and i did cbt therapy abd it helped me loads keep strong you can do this abd please tell your mum let her know what u are going thru take care sorry its long but i know what your going thru xxx

[TheHistoricalPresent]

Hi Christian!

Working through ALL the modules here really really helped me kick 90% of my HA:

cci.health.wa.gov.au/resour...

When you click each module you download a pdf file which is easy to print out. It helps to print them and fill them in and keep them in a binder or something so you can return to them and read over your notes.

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Hi Christian. I am sorry you are having such a hard time. The first thing I would say to you is - dont use google to try and reassure yourself or find answers. That usually results in making people feel worse. You already know that you suffer from anxiety - probably health anxiety by the sound of it and maybe also ocd and sensorimotor obsession. That sounds a lot, but actually its very common for those things to be linked. Your doctor should have investigated all those things with you - but sometimes people dont believe that young people can be suffering with those issues. The individual health issue is not the important thing to focus on - that will change from time to time.

You point out that you have 'outgrown' other health issues. In reality, you have swapped one issue for another, and you will not solve any of it until you get to the root cause for your anxiety. I am not sure what part your parents or larger family are playing in your health concerns in terms of supporting you, but I would imagine that they are worried about you.

I see that someone has suggested therapy to you - and I would agree with that. I dont know if you have thought about therapy or if it has been suggested by your doctor or family, but it has a good success rate for this illness. Try not to get bogged down in the particular illness you think you have - the real illness is the anxiety.

[Maltesers11]

Dear all, in an anxious state I wake up loads of times during a sleep. I have had chest pains and since being on this site have realised I have loads of problems with pain in my nose and have, what I thought were cold sores, they bleed too. I need to get them checked I know now. Christian, I can only begin to imagine what you are feeling. It does affect your life, anxiety is cruel and it is hard to explain to others, I also found googling health issues will tell you the worst case scenarios, See a GP, I hope you are receiving loads of support from friends, family and health sites.

[Daniellesparkles]

Hi I'm actually in the same situation that you were in I got water up my nose in the shower last night I'm freaking out again about this I've worried about it before how did u calm yourself my necks not stiff don't have a headache I'm not nauseous any advice?