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Don't think I can take much more
« on: March 11, 2013, 08:16:05 AM »
I've had enough, I can't take this every day, day in day out, one thing after another. I just want to feel well again, to feel how I used to feel before my health anxiety. I don't know how to get there. Every time I think I'm on the road to recovery I get new symptoms that scare me. I don't go looking for them, I don't scan my body for changes, or look for something to be wrong with me they just happen. Like the night sweats that I've had for a few months now, or the infection in my belly button which turned out to be an irritation but the antibiotics they gave me for it gave me thrush which doesn't seem to want to clear up even with treatment, the extra long period, the three weeks between my periods instead of four, though this last one is nearer two and a half weeks, to name but a few. All these things I just can't take any more. I know we are never symptom free, that there will always be an ache or pain or lump or bump but this is just too much for me to cope with. I'm not coping well at all, I really just don't know what to do any more other than sit in a corner and cry. I'm spent, I have no more strength left to fight it all, I feel like I'm about to crack.

Sorry for the rant but I really don't know how to get through this any more, I'm lost.
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Re: Don't think I can take much more
« Reply #1 on: March 11, 2013, 09:02:11 AM »
I completely understand where you are right now. Are you on any medication for you anxiety at all? I was at the stage where I couldn't work anymore and could hardly leave the house. But thank God I went to the dr and he changed my medication. I still suffer pretty bad anxiety and have super crappy days/nights (light tonight) but its helped a lot, I'm able to work again and even went to the theatre the other night! Huge step for me.
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Re: Don't think I can take much more
« Reply #2 on: March 11, 2013, 08:25:09 PM »
Yes I am on medication but it doesn't seem to do much for me same with the therapy, I'm out of ideas on what to try next as I really want to beat this thing but am just feeling like I'm drowning at the moment.
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Re: Don't think I can take much more
« Reply #3 on: March 12, 2013, 07:21:24 AM »
It can be so hard,  :( have you tried changing your meds or talking to the dr or even trying some natural therapies?
At least you know you can always come on here and vent or even just be. I find that helps me a lot.
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Re: Don't think I can take much more
« Reply #4 on: March 12, 2013, 08:06:20 AM »
Thanks Hayley. I haven't tried changing my meds, no. I'm a bit of a pill phobe and it took all the courage I had to take the ones I'm on so I'm too scared to try anything else. I've been really bad today, spent the evening crying, I'm convinced I'm dying, nothing anyone says is helping me. My husband has been great the last few days and very supportive but I'm just a mess and don't know how I'm going to get over all this. I've had it for a year and a half now, it feels like a lifetime, I don't think I'm ever going to feel normal again.
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Re: Don't think I can take much more
« Reply #5 on: March 13, 2013, 08:52:51 AM »
Honestly I know exactly how you feel I've had this problem for over 7 years now and at time it has been dibilatating. I'm also a pill phobic so it took me many years to change my meds. But it's been the best thing I have done. Difinitely go to the dr and talk to them about changing pills ask them about the side affects and tell them your worries.
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Re: Don't think I can take much more
« Reply #6 on: March 13, 2013, 09:09:52 AM »
Medicine never worked for me either. I try to accept the way that I am and it is sometimes very difficult
and I struggle with it. I wish their were some magical answer, but I think you have to try whatever is
necessary to get your life back on track.
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Re: Don't think I can take much more
« Reply #7 on: March 13, 2013, 07:23:45 PM »
I hear ya, sister.  Boy, do I hear ya.  Sometimes I just have to look at myself in the past, all the horrible things I thought were happening, and they never did.  Then I logically conclude it's like this time or that time 5, 6, 7+ years ago.  Then anxiety beats me upside the head and says 'PAY ATTENTION TO ME!!!!'  It's really exhausting.
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Re: Don't think I can take much more
« Reply #8 on: March 13, 2013, 09:58:34 PM »
How are you doing Sass?
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Re: Don't think I can take much more
« Reply #9 on: March 16, 2013, 04:12:54 AM »
How are you doing Sass?

Not brilliantly. My periods are still coming every three weeks - just what I need :( and it's still worrying me, have just started one today. I hope it's not another 11 day period o_O
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Re: Don't think I can take much more
« Reply #10 on: March 16, 2013, 06:15:53 AM »
I'm sorry, but I know you will get through this and be ok. If it does last that long you will be fine! You are ok even if you don't feel like it. Lots of love to you!
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Re: Don't think I can take much more
« Reply #11 on: March 16, 2013, 03:40:12 PM »
I feel your pain.  This all sucks, doesn't it?  Wish I had good advice but I'm trying to figure it out too.  If it helps, you're not the only one. 

Periods every three weeks can't be helping; that sounds like a real morale downer, especially running that long.  No wonder you don't feel well!  And hormones make my anxiety a lot worse...maybe that's part of why everything seems so craptacular right now.
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Re: Don't think I can take much more
« Reply #12 on: March 16, 2013, 10:20:24 PM »
thanks all.

well I thought I was starting my period, had all the symptoms but nothing. I'm scared now I'm going to miss this one and get a much thicker endometrium and get endometrial hyperplasia :(
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