Slight pain in foot

[daysinthesun]

To start, I am going to see a doctor in a few days. I just kind of want somewhere to express my fear without being mocked.

I have had slight pain in my foot for about three or four days now. Sometimes I forget all about it until I’ll get a sharp pain and have to modulate how I walk. I’m concerned it’s a blood clot but my mother has told me that I’m fine over and over again. But she cannot explain what’s happening in my foot.

It’s right on the top of my foot, a few centimeters from my ankle. There has been no swelling. No discoloration. But sometimes I get some pain in my thigh. It feels like inflammation. Sometimes I’ll even feel things in my calf. Like a tenseness or soreness.

I had one tender spot on my thigh as well but that tends to fade in and out. I haven’t slept well because I’ve been afraid the suspected clot will go into my lungs while I’m asleep and kill me.

To make it even worse, my neck is tense on the left side and hurts. I’m worried a lymph node has swollen and it’s a sign of cancer. As you can tell, I am not at peace or at ease lately and it’s starting to take a toll on me.

I am going to see a doctor in a few days and will update afterwards but if anyone has experienced this or has advice about how to settle my anxiety, please help. I am exhausted from thinking I’m going to die a preventable death and crying myself to sleep

 

[notnew]

My heart is with you and so are my prayers. I am going through these exact same fears and am seeing someone on Saturday that I hope can prescribe the right meds. Sometimes it helps when someone who's been through this for 20 someodd years says to you "I have had these same fears too many times to count. I worry over my eyes being too dry - maybe I have something way worse than the most likely allergies or dry air or not drinking enough water. But I can't stop obsessing about bad things that are really really unlikely." You are not alone. I pray, try to distract my mind until the right medicine comes along and remember that this is not reality, this is an illness that is not being treated yet. Just like someone with a physically easy to see illness, they need their medicine or whatever it is to help them function properly. Our help is coming soon, so hold on, it will be soon.

 

[daysinthesun]

Your words were so kind and so important to me that I honestly just burst into tears. Thank you so much for praying for me. I don’t know if anything serious is happening to me physically but this fear and worry has taken such a toll on my body. I’ve depressed and anxious since i was sixteen years old but the older i get, the more difficult i find it to bounce back. i will come back with an update after the doctor visit. thank you so much. may you too be blessed with comfort and reassurance.

 

[notnew]

Your words were so kind and so important to me that I honestly just burst into tears. Thank you so much for praying for me. I don’t know if anything serious is happening to me physically but this fear and worry has taken such a toll on my body. I’ve depressed and anxious since i was sixteen years old but the older i get, the more difficult i find it to bounce back. i will come back with an update after the doctor visit. thank you so much. may you too be blessed with comfort and reassurance.

Well, we're in the same boat. I've had anxiety pretty much all my life but did pretty well on Zoloft starting in my 20s for 20 years until just the last year. So I've been suffering through trials of different meds. I just found this forum tonight and I keep having pain in my foot too and your post drew me in. I can completely understand the tears. Everytime God shows me mercy in the terrible suffering of this, I can't help but cry, just from the relief of the agony of fear. I do however believe that He loves me and you and would not allow it -unless it grows to be a better person or helps others. So in calmer times, I remember that. I spent hundreds of hours on the internet studying statistics of what could hurt us and honestly, the risks of the bad bad stuff are pretty low in general. That's why people that don't have this or haven't studied it, don't understand why we worry and can't stop. We will overcome though!