My new doctor is going to think I'm a nutcase! But I know I must make an appointment to see him, and that is what I am going to do. I am hoping and praying it's nothing serious, and I am trying (and sometimes succeeding) to stay off the internet and not googling my symptoms!
CB, it does not matter what your new doctor thinks, these are
your symptoms. My friend has anxiety as well and has a hard time with doctors, she feels that they don't listen to her, or has come across some with horrible "bedside manner". I hope this is not the case for you.
What is happening to your body is what is happening.
It is real for you.
Whatever the cause is, it is real.
It could be the anxiety, coupled with the stress you undergo from work and dealing with your daughter. Either way, your body is manifesting symptoms and it is important to check them out. I am glad you are going to make an appointment. If the findings are that you are okay physically, then you know it is your anxiety.
In your signature, you write the medications you are on, are not working. So, something needs to be done about that, too. Anxiety and stress are damaging to our health.
How do we stop having stress, when our lives are so full of challenges?
CB, find something for YOU. Find something that helps you to relax and destress.
I know it is hard with everything going on around you, but sheesh
we only have this one life.
Take one day at a time and work on your health issues. There is only so much you can do, so you will have to slow your mind down and tackle this one issue at a time. Make a list of your concerns. Bring it with you to the doctor, and let the doctor figure out which you need to tackle first.
You are going to be okay, CB, keep telling yourself that. Either way, you are going to be okay. Worrying about it does nothing for you but make your anxiety worse. Just tackle this one day at a time, and keep telling yourself you are going to be okay. It is a steep mountain you are looking down. When my Dad taught us how to ski, he said "Don't look at the steepness of the slope, we are not going down it, we are going
across." Don't look down this steep slope, look to point a, then b and so on. You can do this.
It is what I have to do now with this thing with my hubs. If I go down the steep slope of awfullizing, there is no turning back. I have no control over what the future is, so I just keep telling myself no matter what, I am going to be okay.
I am going
across the mountain, and so can you.
(((HUGS)))
leafy