Please help calm me down. A small background is ever since becoming a mum I have a fear of being taken from my kids . For some reason I have a crazy fear with hiv, and of course cancers and I've been down the ms road with muscle sensations . I've had tests over silly things before . Well this week was my nightmare I was talking to a friend when I noticed a open slice which was still oOzing blood on my hand . It was pretty much gapping and i didn't even feel it and don't know where it come from . I started worrying that maybe I've touched something while the wound had been bleeding , maybe it was a person that cut me . Two days later I have a huge lymph node behind my ear which I've never had before swell large and become painful , I'm also feeling really sick and congested , you think my body is fighting infection from the cut ? I've kept it clean and covered since I noticed it . Please help
Sounds like you have a summer cold, give if this week to clear
Get yourself down to the chemist, or ask hubby to get you some cold preparations.
The chemist will recommend some medications to help. Lymph nodes can swell when we get colds and flu. If nothing changes after your cold see your GP
Your cut sounds like it has been caused by paper or very sharp tool in kitchen etc, these cuts are really sore and need some antiseptic applied soon afterwards. It will be healing now. So leave it alone or cover with a bandage that will allow the wound to breath.
I had a nasty fall thursday and I cut my arm nect to my elbow, I was offered treatment and I decided to leave it alone. It has formed a large scab and now healing so will leave it alone now not wanting to upset the scab
BOB
Thankyou for your reply . A normal person would think along those lines of just getting the cut healed but an irrational person like myself spirals into complete panic and wonders if I have caught something for the next month . The cold is probably just a coincidence when I'm thinking logical but of course if I were a logical person I would not of joined a health anxiety forum
I wish I could think like others as I am sick of the panic . Thankyou for the reassurance though
Hi have you always had health anxiety or has this just cropped up after the birth of your child? Sadly you are ill but not with a physical illness however anxiety can be as debilitating as a physical illness.You know you are not thinking rationally so you need to talk to your doctor about how you are feeling and start treatment to allow you to enjoy being a mum.As for the gland you have the cold nothing major.Also do not be googling symptoms worst thing you can do
Hi i was actually the most carefree person before having children . My health anxiety is the most debilitating thing in my life but regardless of counsellors or anxiety meds I haven't been able to get on top of or . . I'm good for a while then something triggers me and I spiral. My family are starting to get over me and my irrational thinking. I joined this forum tonight because I am starting to feel like if I talk any longer to my partner he will leave . He need the old me back and at the moment as I'm worried yet again over my health I need to de brief . Would anyone else worry over having cut themselves if they don't know where the cut came from ? Or is that an anxious thought ? I don't see it as completely irrational but my partner did so I just stayed quiet .
It is irrational because you are overthinking it and catastrophising something that happens to everyone and they don't give it a second thought.It is hard for someone who has never suffered anxiety to understand.l think you are in the right forum as health anxiety is definitely very common here.
Yeah I guess you are right, Thankyou so much for your reply . It's appreciated more than you know
Your welcome.Keep posting it does help to get some perspective.