GYDA
05-19-2014, 01:53 AM
Blllahh! exactly how i feel at the minute! haha.
Basically after weeks/months of getting chest pains while I was resting and while I exercised, which is what I was most concerned about, I decided to give in and go to the doctors again (Ive been before, about a year ago when I first got my health anxiety and they did 3 ECG's and one stress ECG, all come back normal) but I just wanted to make sure there wasn't anything new going on because of the chest pains while I was running. Anyway, doctor said the same thing as usual, he doesn't think it's anything but he'll put my in for some blood tests and do an ecg, I went on thursday to do my ECG and blood works, the woman who did it said in general no news is good news so if you don't hear anything by middle of next week presume everythings fine. The next day I look at my phone and I've got a missed called from my doctors, never a good sight if you've got anxiety haha, thinking the worse that my ECG is all over the places and ive got some heart disease. I rang back and he said that he wants to see me tonight at 5.20, panic sets in even more! :P
I rang him back because I didnt want to sit at work for 4 hours wondering what was wrong, and he told me that my ECG was fine but my glucose level was 'a little low'. I'm a little bit relieved, until I google it and all i see is diabetes, diabetes & diabetes. I don't want diabetes at any age, never mind at my age of 22, so i go to the doctors worrying myself sick i've got diabetes, he gets a nurse to do that prick of the finger on me to test my sugar levels and it comes back normal at 4.7. He seems a bit confused as to why it was low the other day and normal now, but i'm kind of relieved obviously, he says he wants me to do a fasting blood test this week sometime.
But i'm sure anyone with health anxiety can relate, i'm worried why my blood sugar was low in the first place, have I got diabetes and that prick of the finger was just a spike in my blood sugar levels for that day? i'll go back this week and it'll be low again, the panic will start again etc. Having health anxiety sucksss! haha any normal person would be happy they got a normal reading on the friday, i'm worried why it was low on the thursday. The only thing I can think of is i'm on quiet a strict diet at the minute, I weigh 200lbs at 5ft 10, and from monday to wednesday i hammered the diet, lost 3lbs but must admit my calorie intake was quiet low for monday, tuesday and wednesday, on average 1,400 calories aswell as excercise. I don't know if this has anything to do with it, I've stayed off google because I don't want to see something I wont like! haha.
Anyone been through anything similar? Sorry for babbling on :P
Basically after weeks/months of getting chest pains while I was resting and while I exercised, which is what I was most concerned about, I decided to give in and go to the doctors again (Ive been before, about a year ago when I first got my health anxiety and they did 3 ECG's and one stress ECG, all come back normal) but I just wanted to make sure there wasn't anything new going on because of the chest pains while I was running. Anyway, doctor said the same thing as usual, he doesn't think it's anything but he'll put my in for some blood tests and do an ecg, I went on thursday to do my ECG and blood works, the woman who did it said in general no news is good news so if you don't hear anything by middle of next week presume everythings fine. The next day I look at my phone and I've got a missed called from my doctors, never a good sight if you've got anxiety haha, thinking the worse that my ECG is all over the places and ive got some heart disease. I rang back and he said that he wants to see me tonight at 5.20, panic sets in even more! :P
I rang him back because I didnt want to sit at work for 4 hours wondering what was wrong, and he told me that my ECG was fine but my glucose level was 'a little low'. I'm a little bit relieved, until I google it and all i see is diabetes, diabetes & diabetes. I don't want diabetes at any age, never mind at my age of 22, so i go to the doctors worrying myself sick i've got diabetes, he gets a nurse to do that prick of the finger on me to test my sugar levels and it comes back normal at 4.7. He seems a bit confused as to why it was low the other day and normal now, but i'm kind of relieved obviously, he says he wants me to do a fasting blood test this week sometime.
But i'm sure anyone with health anxiety can relate, i'm worried why my blood sugar was low in the first place, have I got diabetes and that prick of the finger was just a spike in my blood sugar levels for that day? i'll go back this week and it'll be low again, the panic will start again etc. Having health anxiety sucksss! haha any normal person would be happy they got a normal reading on the friday, i'm worried why it was low on the thursday. The only thing I can think of is i'm on quiet a strict diet at the minute, I weigh 200lbs at 5ft 10, and from monday to wednesday i hammered the diet, lost 3lbs but must admit my calorie intake was quiet low for monday, tuesday and wednesday, on average 1,400 calories aswell as excercise. I don't know if this has anything to do with it, I've stayed off google because I don't want to see something I wont like! haha.
Anyone been through anything similar? Sorry for babbling on :P