Health anxiety and over thinking HELP !!

Mental health
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hi all its a little long winded but looking for some help possibly reassurance I am doing my own head in!! when my anxiety flairs up I can usually brush it off but not at the moment!

I have had a real rough few weeks with being ill...started one evening when I was doubled over I'm agony and it lasted 2 days, managed to get into a Dr and he said possible gall bladder problems and referred me for stomach scan. couple days later I was getting pain in my side and just felt although went back to emergency Dr and turned out I had severe kidney infection. course of anti biotics done another urine sample all came back fine. did get told can take a couple weeks to feel normal again ! (well as normal as I get) all of this kick started my ibs and anxiety. anyways started to settle myself and was doing ok then the weekend started feeling ill again and pain in my side worried infection was back took urine sample to Dr for dip test clear.....spoke to Dr on phone made an appt to see him check pulse temp etc fine and sent sample to lab came back fine. had stomach scan Tuesday they found bloody gall stones they aren't playing me up at the moment and I just wonder if the way I am feeling is all my anxiety. I have head pressure feel sick all the time feel a bit wobbly from time to time achy legs and can't stop thinking about what's going on in my system. I can probably answer my own questions but can my anxiety make me feel this awful too! I'm wondering if when I get to speak to my Dr when they get the scan results if it will startamong me feel better.!

I keep looking for all the bad symptoms high temp, racing heart and feel twinges of pain here ad there which prob aren't there my anxiety playing tricks too maybe. and of course all rhis flared my ibs up again - I have also had to change diet hluten/wheat intolerant, thought was dairy intolerant but found out its lactose I tolerant and am now following fodmap diet for ibs which did seem to be helping until last 2 days but again prob my anxiety!

I worry tha I won't be able to read my body properly if something is really wrong but that won't be the case will it?

I also think stuck in a rut not helping I run a business from home making glasses gifts etc I am so busy so I don't do anything else or really go anywhere except post office so I guess that "change of scenery" thing isn't going to help as I got nothing else going on.

I am typing this and thinking kerry you know what it is so sort it but do I - agggrrrrr thanks for reading xxx

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Hiya I am the same as you had a stressful couple of weeks then went on holiday when I got back it was like a black cloud had come over me I couldn't shake it off I was so bloated with no appetite I googled googled googled and came up with cancer every time anyway the dr kind of laughed at me and explained the head to gut response which made sense but I didn't believe him after 2 trips to a&e 2 nurses and another Drs convo then I started to believe maybe my anxiety and stomach were related. I am still struggling everyday because all I think about is if I'm bloated and I get the most random pains everywhere that weren't there before but I had clear urine and bloods they won't do as an because they said I don't need it. Everyday is a nightmare arguing with myself whether the pain is real or whether it's all in my mind! Nightmare you aren't alone 🙂

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it's awful isn't it......and I can usually reason with myself.....but it's hard to shake this time. I must say though I posted this a couple days ago for some reason took a while to post but today after all this time has been a good day no pressure head and no worrying so hopefully I am coming out the outside of this bad spell. I juat keep telling myself to behave I know there's nothing wrong so this anxiety is not ruining me - easier said then done I know!! I hope you start to feel better real soon too xx

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Thank you I was happy all my bloods came back clear I read somewhere that the big c word I am so afraid of would probably be picked up in your first blood tests that helped think it's just ibs or the dr thinks that lol tommorow is a new day! Xx

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yes drs always told me If I had any signs of that c word bloods would show something due to counts etc.....so it does show its us way over thinking most of the time....but trying to tell out brains to stop - another matter altogether lol x