Hello all! Im new to this so bare with me. Health anxiety has taken over my life. Im now on Paxil which she has lowered my dose because I didnt take too good to the 20 mg. I am now on ten. It started back in June. Ive been to 5 doctors. 3 e.r.visits. Ive had 3 ekg's, 3 sets of labwork and 2 troponin tests. Oh and a chest xray. All of which came back good. Should I trust these tests?
Should I trust the tests for my heart that I had?
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Cuchculan
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Yes. Simple answer. Could they all get it wrong? You could continue to have hundreds of more tests done and they would all come back negative too. When do you accept it? Point been there is only so many tests you can have done. They all show nothing bad wrong with you. Anybody would be happy with those results. I know health anxiety can play with your mind. Makes things hard for you. But these tests should be all the proof you need.
You would think it would be a simple answer. I seriously do not know how to stop obsessing. Its ridiculous. I lay at night in fear of the symptoms returning. They ultimately do. I dont know how I got here. Google has not been a friend of mine but I still google my death. I wish I could find something more constructive to obsess over. Thank you so much for the feedback. I never thought of it that way before.
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google is the enemy of people like us. researching your symptoms online will ALWAYS cause more anxiety than it relieves. ALWAYS. curbing that behavior is crucial to recovery. trying to treat your health anxiety while googling your symptoms is like an alcoholic trying to curb their drinking by having a few drinks everyday.
googling your symptoms is so detrimental to recovery, that I'd go as far as to say that if you can't curb the urge, you should straight up get rid of your access. yes, i mean canceling your internet... or switching to a flip phone instead of a smart phon... that's how much damage it can do.
if you're going to goggle anything, goggle health anxiety. you might as well research something you have instead of something you don't.
googling your symptoms is so detrimental to recovery, that I'd go as far as to say that if you can't curb the urge, you should straight up get rid of your access. yes, i mean canceling your internet... or switching to a flip phone instead of a smart phon... that's how much damage it can do.
if you're going to goggle anything, goggle health anxiety. you might as well research something you have instead of something you don't.
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Start yourself a journal. Write down anything you assume you have. Write down why you have this? How you know you have this? Not sure if this is the first thing you ever assumed you had. If not add the other things in your journal too. What made you think you had these other things too? If you get a few of these things written down, stop, now write out which ones were true. Things you really had. We can divide this page up. Things you never really had there too. This is using self logic. A way to show yourself that you might have been here before with other conditions too and I would guess you never really had any of them either. Just keep track of your thoughts. Why and when you are thinking a certain way. Looking for triggers. Things that start your thinking off. A pattern. Then you maybe begin to work on what you saw in the pattern. How to maybe correct one or two things. Can you change your thinking when your mind begins to wander? Maybe change how you react to the thoughts that enter your head. Keeping track of everything you do. So you can see exactly the path you are now trying to walk on. It is never easy. It will always be a battle. But one small victory can change the course of a battle.