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Anyone dealing with health anxiety?
Depression & Anxiety | Last Active: Aug 13 4:57am | Replies (19)Comment receiving replies
@fudge08
My teen son has health anxiety (he has a heart defect, ADHD, OCD, anxiety, POTS, etc.) and struggles when his heart starts to beat fast/hard. He has, at times, worried he was dying. He had covid 2x and may be dealing with some long covid symptoms. He inherited some anxiety from both his mom and dad (I have struggled with panic attacks, anxiety and depression and his father has generalized/social anxiety and OCD with negative/intrusive thoughts). My son does well with biweekly CBT/counseling, deep breathing techniques, refocusing intrusive thoughts and taking magnesium supplements which helps calm nerves some.
What type of accident did you have that injured your hips/pelvis? Did you fall? If you aren’t already, you may benefit from seeing an orthopedic hip/pelvis specialist for an MRI of soft tissues. X-ray does not pick up soft tissue injury and bloodwork won’t always detect what is going on. When I had hip pain, I went to an orthopedic hip specialist who said my X-rays didn’t show any issues in my hip joint but sent me for hip MRIs. The MRIs showed I had bilateral gluteal tendinopathy and bilateral high grade partial hamstring tears! They offered PT and cortisone injections but I didn’t get the shots. It has taken a while to get better but do believe I may need a debridement surgery to reattach my right hamstring tendon. Years ago, a ct scan showed I had inflammation of the ischial tuberosity hamstring attachment (not sure if caused by sitting a lot for my desk job plus I have hypermobility which may be tied to autoimmune issues that run in my family (my son has hypermobility as well and I also have Hashimoto’s thyroiditis).
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Thank you so much for these insights and sharing how your family is dealing with these issues ! I feel like I need to plug in with an orthopedic doctor and further investigate the possibility of soft tissue and muscle injury, which my PT has already suggested might be a factor. We started renovating a house. I am 62 and not used to that much repetitive bending, lifting, climbing stairs. I had some shoulder and neck pain but that went away fairly soon but the hips, hamstrings, were excruciating. My initial inflammatory labs, sed rate , crp, ck that looks at muscle damage were normal but when they did the ANA antibody test it came back elevated and that is what is leading to all the further autoimmune testing. To your suggestion I feel that an ortho consult makes sense. They told me that X-rays would not show muscle damage.
I am very hopeful the CBT therapy can help me with the anxiety side of this. I k ow it is interfering with my life and general health as well as my ability to heal.