health anxiety worries

[NoodlePip]

I just need some where to release this, feeling so anxious!!!

my husband recently noticed his urinary stream was reduced, I urged him to go to the gp and he decided against it. Fast forward 6 months this issue is still prevalent and he’s now experiencing dried blood in his stools, I pushed him to get a gp appt and they’re now testing him for prostate cancer. I am beside myself with worry, I have health anxiety and cannot seem to focus on anything, I’m walking round with a weight in my stomach and I’m panicking, we are both in our early 30s and have two beautiful children (a 3 year old and a 9month old!)

Not really sure what I want from this but I don’t have anyone really to turn to 😓

[BeKind28-]

Hello

I have health anxiety mainly it is focused on myself which sounds selfish but if someone close to me was been tested or had anything wrong I can imagine my health anxiety would zoom in on them like yours is

Your Husbands symptoms and the fact they are testing him for prostate cancer does not mean he has it but with certain symptoms they have to send us for tests to rule it out and hopefully it will and then they can look at other reasons that might be causing this but we just hear they are testing for something and health anxiety then has a field day kicks in and we feel sick with worry as well as it taking over every thought yet no matter what if they find something if they don't which I hope it is the latter it will not change anything but then you have to try and reverse this thinking by saying ok this is a worrying time but no matter what they have treatments now that are so successful and so therefore we will deal with it and he will be ok

Famous people as you may well know the King for instance is having treatment for this and look how well he is looking as he knows getting treatment is going to prevent anything escalating

But also stay focused on certain symptoms they have to rule out the worst scenario and in more cases it does not end up been that but it is the procedure they have to follow

Try and take each day at a time as that is all we can do and reverse the negative thinking where ever you can not easy I know but you can try and it does start working eventually

I hope he has an appointment soon and let us know how he gets on x

[NoodlePip in reply to BeKind28-]

thank you so much for this, your words really helped! He had the results back today and everything was within normal ranges thankfully!

[BeKind28- in reply to NoodlePip]

Hello

This is brilliant news and I am so pleased for him and you as now I hope you can get your anxiety back under control

Thank you for letting us know x

[GalDriver]

BeKind28- is right. I hope you get results back soon and you can get on with enjoying your lovely family. x