Crushing anxiety

[PeppyPo]

Feeling really down tonight took a step back and started googleing again 😒 ano I shouldn't have. Now my Anxiety is through the roof again .. i have an appointment with liver specialist on the 11th of September feels like forever for this appointment. Trying my hardest to stay postive. For my kids but my fear and anxiety is crushing.. dosnt help that we have had so much going on .. been trying to recover form a thyroidectomy and on top of that we last week in we had someone break into to our house while we were in bed watching tv he manged to enter our home with large rock in his hand luckily we manged to get him out of our home. Witch caused him to reapeatly kick our door till it smashed! it was all very scary.. finding it really hard to keep my stress and anxiety down really struggling. And the fear of what's to come and death Is very over powering. Biggest fear in this world not being here for my children.💔 what do you all do to stay postive whilst waiting for appointments and test?

[RugbyMama]

Gentle reminder - Google is no friend to your liver. It has a lot of worst case scenarios in it.

Your liver is your most forgiving/fickle organ (this is something my husbands gastroenterologist said to him). It can repair itself to an extent, it regenerates itself. It will continue to try and perform all 500 of its' functions even when very badly damaged. As I said before, liver disease is not a silent killer, if your liver was in such a state that your life was at risk you would be very obviously unwell.

I note you have some autoimmune issues and a rare form of diabetes. These can impact your liver. But if you are taking any medications accordingly and looking after your own health there is absolutely no reason to think that you won't be around for your children for a long long time to come.

11th September is only 5 days away. This time next week you'll probably be wondering what you were worried about. If it is any consolation it happens to the best of us. My husband has his annual gastro appointment today, we are almost 2 years since diagnosis of cirrhosis, haemochromotosis and insulin-dependent type 2 diabetes. He's still abstinent, had blood tests done for something else recently that confirmed his liver function results were fine, remains completely asymptomatic but I am anxious this morning!

[2022minks]

Hi there, you say you are recovering from a thyroidectomy, I know anxiety levels can be really effected if medication isn't right for when the thyroid isn't functioning right might be worth asking your doctor to assess your T4 & T3. Xx