Health Anxiety

Oh Peaseblossom. People are going to get us mixed up?

I understand how you feel. I’m always worrying about my health.

Thank you all so much yes they are only used in winter on an evening.I used them to keep heating costs down. Your right I suppose most people years ago had no other heating. It's been and continues I guess to be quite a trying time a bit of a shock to the system im probably over thinking and over analysing- thank you again for your kind words.x

You are definitely not going mad. I think most of us go through spells of worrying about things and the current situation in the world on top of your recent health problems isn't helping you find peace of mind.

My husband has a period severe health anxiety and was helped hugely by counselling, some very useful books from the library and by keeping busy doing the things he loves like walking the dog and gardening. You are definitely not on your own and I hope this worry soon passes for you. The brighter days are coming and that's always uplifting.

After your bad experience with a colonoscopy anxiety is understandable and it may have transferred to anxiety about other aspects of your health. There was a feature on BBC breakfast last week about a push for regular lung screening by the widow of James Brokenshire who died recently. Hopefully this will become a regular thing eventually but in your case perhaps a talk with your GP about your anxiety could result in you being referred for a chest x ray which would put your mind at rest. It seems rather drastic to have your log burner and open fire removed without a good reason. I hope you are back to full health soon.

Hels don’t let Health Anxiety take over your life. I’ve been a sufferer most of my adult life and it does spoil the quality of it. See your GP sooner rather than later, who hopefully will recommend CBT.

After all, my parents generation spent almost their whole lives with open fires almost all day and nobody I know had health problems caused by it.

My thoughts too peasblossom

You know I just closed Gransnet and thought I think I'd be anxious if my bowel had been perforated during a procedure. It must have been a horrible shock. You are not going mad

You don’t need to have them taken out. Just don’t use them?
Unless you want the look with an electric fire.

How often did you actually use you open fire? I know when I had one it wasn’t actually all that often out of the 365 days in a year and then only for a few hours. Perhaps your risk is really very low. Certainly not as high as your fear is making it?

After all, my parents generation spent almost their whole lives with open fires almost all day and nobody I know had health problems caused by it.

You’ve had a time when awareness illness has been thrust upon you. Your present anxiety is all part of that. It’s very common following medical trauma and should diminish in time as your normal life gets back on track.

I wish you a full and speedy recovery.

I suspect it may be more amplified by the fact we have just been through a pandemic and we are watching on whilst the world appears to be going to war. I am not belittling how you feel, I just think everyone is overwhelmed with life at the moment.

That said, if you feel you need more support you can access help via your local authorities wellbeing service. CBT is often the go to for this sort of thing x