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- natnat28021
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- 5y ago
I used to freak out about blood clots too after a scare I had. I’m so glad you’re okay!!
I know how you feel. About two years ago I became very sick for a long time, I couldnt go to school or do things normally because I was always tired or in pain. It took the doctors so long to figure out what was the matter with me, so all that time I was worrying and obsessing so much about the worst case scenarios. Even after I recovered, for a long time I was constantly worried that I was going to get sick again with something worse because it could happen to me. Brain tumors are a huge fear of mine and even today when I get lightheaded I fear it. Instead of rushing to the ER and performing your compulsion, maybe try some ERP. Have some unhealthy food like ice cream. Go out for drinks. And try to resist seeing the doctor for a whole week. Try going out and living life no matter how much your anxiety overwhelmes you. Thats some good ERP. Health is often take it for granted but take advantage of it? Go out and live, because youre healthy and you can
I just had a baby too and I’m dealing with awful harm thoughts but my last episode years back I was obsessed during nursing school that I was sick with a disease or cancer. I went to the ER several times and saw many different doctors, I even had MRIs and sleep studies - I was terrified I had brain cancer or MS. But after months of this obsessing and googling symptoms I got a therapist and was told it was ocd and anxiety/depression. I know it’s hard to believe it can make you feel so crappy but press on!
I think trauma and stress can trigger ocd even if birth went completely fine- I had high blood pressure and had to be induced sooner than expected which was scary for me. So your blood clot was trauma and the birth process is trauma to our body even if it goes perfectly so keep that in mind
I have had anxiety issues for years and have been in therapy for that. But a big change in my life made it spin out of control. Btw, I am a bit of a control freak. So, for the last year, health anxiety has reigned. It all started when I had a panick attack and ran out of the operation room where I had to go under for a very simple, preventive procedure (I was convinced I wasn’t going to wake up.) I faced it again and made it. But after that I have been going from one health scare to the other. Skin cancer, oral cancer, breats cancer, HPV related cervical cancer - went through each recently. These are accompanied by panick attacks, insomnia and anxiously googling symptoms and testimonials. Every visit to the doctor end with panick that I forgot to check other important symptoms or that she might not be taking me seriously and miss something important. Now I am worried about a lymph node under my jaw that is slightly swollen. I know chances are it is ok and it is not cancer, it’s my anxiety. But what if it isn’t? And on it goes. I just want to stop worrying and go a day without googling symptoms or health issues. I am waiting for it to pass as these periods of health anxiety are kinda like panicks attacks - they build up, they peak and then they pass. I am afraid doctors will stop taking me seriously (this week I saw my doctor for a melanoma scare and a sore breast.) I am afraid when my doctor doesn’t investigate further and I am afraid when she does. I know it is absurd (I recently googled eye cancer) but I can’t stop. Sorry for the long post, I guess I wanted to write it all down and share it.
Okay so im pretty much just putting this out there to see if anyone will comment and help me. This is my first and only baby I will be having. I have pretty severe ocd with multiple themes and have for years it fluctuates from better to worse you know like this disorder usually does but especially with this pregnancy it has been so bad. It got bad in the second trimester and then it got worse in this last trimester. Idk if it’s because I’m just anticipating his arrival so much so my minds just left to wonder and create scenarios regular and intrusive, of what it’ll be like to be a mom and have him here and also to be exposed everyday to a source of anxiety for me. My stress level is so so high almost everything triggers a thought for me everyday and i ruminate on all of them everyday. I try not to but right now it feels impossible eventhough I know it’s ocd. So what I’m asking is any mom, dad, parent whatever on here I need advice on managing this with a new child. He is about to come out and I’m so anxious about how this will affect me I want to be a good mom and of course ocd makes me worry what if I’m just constantly anxious around him and can’t function and don’t want to be around him? What if I hurt him or want to? All the terrible what ifs and worrying that I won’t be able to enjoy being a mom that this shit will take any enjoyable part of the experience away from me and just make me miserable so please anyone who’s been through it before just tell me how you managed or are still managing what you did to prepare/how you cope? Any advice is appreciated. Thank you!
hi guys. im really struggling today. i keep feeling movements like fluttering, pulses, twitches, and kick like movements. i had an ultrasound, external and transvaginal, blood test i had a seizure from, and multiple negative urine tests. im freaking out that im pregnant. my bf and i broke up for a period of time and we both slept with other people and im afraid im pregnant and its someone elses baby. i got my ultrasound when i was on a period, if that even was my period, and i dont know if that affects anything. the movements are driving me crazy and i want to rip my skin off, im so scared and panicked. i want to live a happy life with my boyfriend but am so scared that ill have that taken away from me if i pop out with a random baby in july or august. im so terrified. do you all think im pregnant or just being ocd? im about to cry because i just cant do this. im so scared and triggered. i have no one to talk to.
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