Making myself miserable really need help.

[karlae99]

Hello I am a 19 year old female and just this week I began to have brown discharge after my period, which I’ve read can be normal and nothing serious. However I then realized that I’ve been need to urinate a lot more than normal, which then lead me into the rabbit hole of looking up symptoms of certain type of canc*rs. I am going to set up an appointment with a ogbyn this week for the irregular discharge, but about a year ago I was also diagnosed with IBS. Which lead me down another rabbit hole in which people talk about how their Ovarian Cancer was misdiagnosed for IBS, I spent almost all day yesterday cryying on and off because I’ve convinced myself this is what’s wrong with me. I of course have no idea what the irregular bleeding is just yet, but I have fully convinced myself I was misdiagnosed and actually have ovarian cancer. I don’t know what to do to calm myself down anymore and I can’t stop crying on and off I am seriously so terrified I dealt with health anxiety about 3 years ago and had fully convinced myself I was dying, even to the point where I would make myself think I was experiencing new symptoms and thankfully I lived on and didn’t die so it went away but it’s now flaring up again and I hate it so much. I honestly stumbled upon this website just today and decided to join it because it seems very helpful and I’m hoping it is.

 

[triceps]

Welcome. It's good that you've got an appointment this week. My suggestion would be to try to concentrate on knowing nothing is going to change healthwise between now and the appointment and maybe some of your worrying can lessen. I wouldn't be afraid to tell the doctor all of the concerns expressed in your post and have some confidence that they might be able to dispel the irrational ones. Health anxiety is so horrible and unrelenting in the thoughts and emotions it puts in your mind. Are you getting any support from others?

 

[Hal 9000]

Hi.
After you go to the doctor and are feeling relieved and less scared you need to come back here and learn about anxiety.
If you're healthy, but your anxiety never lets you believe you are, you are going to suffer over and over.
Let's try to do something about the anxiety. I know that doesn't help you while you wait forever to have this appointment behind you, but maybe you can learn to lessen the occurrences or reduce the intensity of the fear.

 

[Kelculator]

I know you can't help but feel anxious, and you cannot reason with anxiety. That's very normal for us sufferers, and situations like these are the worst. I have had brown discharge after my period before, and when you are anxious you can tend to pee more often. Rationally saying, what is the probability of your IBS being misdiagnosed? I know it doesn't help when you focus on the small possibility, but in general view your chance of actually having ovarian canc*r instead of IBS is pretty slim, considering your age.
Welcome to the forum!

 

[karlae99]

I know you can't help but feel anxious, and you cannot reason with anxiety. That's very normal for us sufferers, and situations like these are the worst. I have had brown discharge after my period before, and when you are anxious you can tend to pee more often. Rationally saying, what is the probability of your IBS being misdiagnosed? I know it doesn't help when you focus on the small possibility, but in general view your chance of actually having ovarian canc*r instead of IBS is pretty slim, considering your age.
Welcome to the forum!

thank you so much for responding I really do very much appreciate it, I no longer am worried about that thankfully but I am worried about something else completely.

 

[karlae99]

Hi.
After you go to the doctor and are feeling relieved and less scared you need to come back here and learn about anxiety.
If you're healthy, but your anxiety never lets you believe you are, you are going to suffer over and over.
Let's try to do something about the anxiety. I know that doesn't help you while you wait forever to have this appointment behind you, but maybe you can learn to lessen the occurrences or reduce the intensity of the fear.

I honestly would absolutely love to learn more about anxiety and how to manage it because sometimes I firmly believe that I’m making myself have all the symptoms I believe I have

 

[Hurt&Hopeful]

Hi there! Sorry you're feeling so scared. yes, brown discharge is completely normal, but it's never bad to get checked out by a doctor. They can rule out cancer very easily for you. There are lots of other things that can make you have to urinate a lot - anxiety is one of them. Anxiety causes your body to release all sorts of fun chemicals and hormones into your bloodstream. When I'm super-anxious, my bladder goes nuts, and my periods become irregular. So get it checked out, and then consider working on the anxiety a bit if that's the cause. There are lots of treatment options! Best of luck to you....