Dealing with Health Anxiety: My Doctor's Appointment Tomorrow

Ooooh man...cancer is rampant in my family and my mother is now in the terminal phase of her second round... I have so much terror and anxiety around the very notion of being diagnosed that it does keep me from staying up to date with my screenings. At present I am two years behind. I NEED to change this. Please, don't let yourself start canceling appointments because it just makes it easier to cancel or never schedule the next one. These screenings are to help us and ignorance won't protect us. You've got this! You go and take on the appointment with your head up and reward yourself after. No matter what the outcome may be, knowledge is power! ❤️

Maybe that what I have instead of just anxiety I swear my mind be racing because of the constipation til the point my lower back hurts BAD now it's like the stress is making me lose weight and I'm like PLEASE dont be this or that because I wanna see my kids grow up. I get hot flashes so not sure if it's my hormones or not but I too got off depo and BOOM that's when constipation hit. Plus my mom passed 3 yrs ago and that's when my vitamin levels was very low. Recently had a colonoscopy and they removed a pre cancer polyp so my mind is very much all over. Now it feels like when I do go I'm not fully done... Scared to take these meds. ESPECIALLY when it say dont take if you have kidney or liver etc. Problems. Like I have muscle relaxers but yooooo scared to take because I dont want nothing to go wrong. I'm a stahm.

Hello! I've had health anxiety for over 10 years. It's horrible, every little thing my mind turns it into "I have cancer" " I'm dying" ... I struggle with this daily. Yes the doctor is there to help and if you don't go it won't fix anything. Just keep telling yourself that you'll feel better after. Wishing you the best of luck!

I also take zoloft which isn't helping as much lately and I don't have ins currently so I have to wait to see about changing them.

I feel this so much. I have palpitations and I've been tested for many things, told its all ok. But.... they keep happening, had them on and off since I was about 12, but lately I've had intrusive thoughts about being older and out of shape so maybe something is wrong and now my anxiety is higher and it's every day. I'm having trouble shaking it.