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- 6y ago
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Look there’s a chance that u will get breast cancer , there’s also a chance u don’t and live til ur 80 in good health , there’s a chance your turn into a parrot who sings folk songs , life is fulll of possibilities. Dwelling on the negative ones takes away from living our life. We gonna die , whethere it b cancer , old age , getting into a fight with an ostrich. Life is not guaranteed for anyone , just enjoy ur time here and go ur erp and take medication if u need it. You’re gonna be okay
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- 6y ago
I get that one every now and again! What helped me was a plan on what I would do if it did happen, what kind of surgery I'd get, etc. Because I'm porky and over 40, it's a possibility. If you are over 30, you probably can get a mammogram. That will help a lot. Breast cancer if caught early really is treatable. So I get it. Be vigilant...but keep that most folks beat it. I have the health anxiety too and I've been worrying about pancreatic cancer lately because my blood sugar shot up fast
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- 6y ago
I’m only 23 I should be living as if I’m still invincible but I’m constantly afraid I have an illness
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- 6y ago
Ask your doc to get a ct scan they’ll help with the pancreatic cancer. I had one last summer because I had a sharp pain in my abdomen, turned out I was constipated. But they couldn’t see the pancreas because I had too much fat in that area. So now I worry about pancreatic cancer too, but my blood sugar is fine
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- 6y ago
Oh I've been poked and scoped up the ying yang. I hear ya...do you have physical symptoms of any sort? I did at 23, which is why I ask. One you ID that the OCD is feeding the anxiety it's a huge step and good on you it happened at 23! You have to believe you can get better but it's hard work.
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- 6y ago
I’ve had a sore right armpit lymph node for ages but the doctor just says it’s hormonal :( what was your symptom? What did it end up being?
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- 6y ago
Frequent urination. I have interstitial cystitis and Fibromyalgia (for reals. Lots of people think they have it but don't). Have they done blood work on you? There's all sorts of stuff that can be other than breast cancer. I've never heard it chalked up to hormones...your breasts can swell hormonally but lymph nodes not so much.
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- 6y ago
I’ve had so much blood work it’s not even funny
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- 6y ago
I have an appointment with a gyno on weds where I’m going to ask about IC! I had two UTIs back to back and sometimes it still hurts to pee even though my culture is clean
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- 6y ago
Important thing to note most of the things it could be aren't serious. It's causing you discomfort and that's why you are fixated. Could also be a bra issue? I'm not kidding. I hate bras and avoid evil poking underwires
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- 6y ago
In my case, it normally don't hurt to pee. When it does, it's a flag that I might have a UTI. Could also be kidney stones. If it is IC, I'm sorry. Sleeping with IC is a bitch and it can make you feel crazy ☹️
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- 20w ago
I saw a post saying that thinking about something for a while will bring it to you. Now I’m scared and panicking because I think about illnesses and getting a disease almost everyday. What should I do? Im very scared
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- 18w ago
My mind keeps telling me “something is wrong with you. the weird feeling you are feeling or the weird tingling you are feeling or there is a weird mark on your body. Those are actually a severe symptom and by ignoring it you could die!” Or especially the constant, “go to the emergency room because this impending doom you are feeling, yeah that’s because your gonna die shortly” It doesn’t help whenever people say “well if something was wrong your body would tell you” because my mind keeps telling me that what I’m feeling is proof something is wrong and I need to get it checked out. That I actually am severely sick and that I need to get it checked out as soon as possible, that if I get one more test than I’ll be okay because it will prove nothing is wrong. How do I tell my mind that it’s just anxiety whenever my mind keeps telling me “well if you keep saying that you could be ignoring something more serious.” Or “the doctors are just brushing you off..something is wrong with you” It’s hard to live with my thoughts whenever they are constantly coming up with ways to challenge me and challenge logic. New reasons on why I need to get this checked out because “I’m just being ignored” or “no one is listening to me so I’ll just end up dying” My symptoms range from weak and shaking legs and body to dizzy and unbalanced and dissociated. Recently I’ve been getting this tingling feeling inside my head and on the back of my neck. And my temples have pressure on them. My body keeps coming up with new symptoms I need to worry about, whenever most of them are probably caused by severe and constant anxiety. So severe I can’t even leave the house because I constantly worry about whether this is severe and something will happen if I leave the house. I need immediate ways to start fixing this because it’s especially horrible whenever my period comes around and my anxiety/depression is already higher than usual. I’ve even started considering taking medication (Zoloft, 25mg) which is another trigger for me, I worry about the symptoms I might get from taking it. That’s how you know it’s gotten pretty bad whenever I’ve come to taking something that I’ve been actively avoiding. What are your thoughts? Do I take the medication? What are ways I can deal with my symptoms that seem so severe in the moment but pass by once I’m not anxious? What are ways my thoughts can ease and I stop taking every symptom as something serious, because at the end of the day my anxiety is most likely the reason I have these horrible symptoms. I’ve always been extremely healthy and everytime I go to the doctors they express how healthy I am with all the tests I’ve had.
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- 16w ago
my therapist suggested that some of my less bad rocd intrusive thoughts are actually mine, and not intrusive. She ended up taking it back when she saw the alarm on my face and saw how panicked I got. I feel really freaking anxious. We were only talking about it because I mentioned a lot of doubt surrounding those less bad ones, but it only filled me with more doubt. I don’t want those thoughts to be mine. I really don’t. I feel scared and so discouraged after this session. I feel scared about the worst thoughts, what if those aren’t intrusive. I feel so much doubt.
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