any advice please?
1st of all i suffer from terrible crippling anxiety attacks and therefore am terrified to visit my gp and also because of my anxiety, my gp's tend to 'fob' me off telling me my symptoms are all anxiety related.
i am a 40yr old woman. i have a massively swollen belly, like am approx 6 months pregnant and is solid like a baby bump. this happens approx 2 weeks before i have my period and then decreases when i actually start it. lately i have been having the most painful sore boobs for approx the same amount of time before my period starts and the only way i can describe it, is, when u fill with milk, after giving birth, where the boobs go really hard and swell and extremely painful to the point of not being able to take off a bra or lift them above the head without pain. i also have very little to no appetite and a piece of toast can make me feel full for hours but at other times of the month i can eat virtually normally. i do have a 'thing' with eating, due to being an ex-anorexic. i am also very constipated mostly, i wont go to the toilet more than once a fortnight, if i'm lucky! and even when i do 'go' (sorry for being very descriptive) it's like am passing a very dark/ near black gluey tar substance and it usually have small traces of blood in it, but not a lot. i think i may have or have had 'piles' in the past and sometimes when i strain on the loo, i get a very small, extremely itchy lump right at my anus. so i put the trouble to going to the loo and the trace amounts of blood on the tissue, down to this. however i am getting pretty worried about these things, yet feel very foolish actually typing all this down, and because of my anxiety i have the problem of visiting the gp and then relaying what i am feeling to the doc. i know he will chalk it all up to anxiety as i did try once before and was given this nasty clear, sugary liquid to take to help me go to toilet, dynamite doesn't move me ha ha ha. when i google all my symptoms together i get loads of things for cancer etc, which terrifies me, but also a lot of other different things and when i google the symptoms separately, they dont seem too bad. as you can see, from the amount i've typed this is bothering me very much now and would like some advice and also if aomeone else has been suffering like myself and how they cope with the different symptoms. i might add, i have a hiatus hernia so avoid breads and wheat, citrus products mostly as these upset my stomach greatly, and i also am dairy intolerant altho i do occasionally partake of one tiny square of chocolate (emergencies only ) as the allergy is very very mild and only makes me feel nausious (hence my suspecting possible mis-diagnoses) again, i fear to go out to have all this double checked by my gp so accept what am told.
1st of all i suffer from terrible crippling anxiety attacks and therefore am terrified to visit my gp and also because of my anxiety, my gp's tend to 'fob' me off telling me my symptoms are all anxiety related.
i am a 40yr old woman. i have a massively swollen belly, like am approx 6 months pregnant and is solid like a baby bump. this happens approx 2 weeks before i have my period and then decreases when i actually start it. lately i have been having the most painful sore boobs for approx the same amount of time before my period starts and the only way i can describe it, is, when u fill with milk, after giving birth, where the boobs go really hard and swell and extremely painful to the point of not being able to take off a bra or lift them above the head without pain. i also have very little to no appetite and a piece of toast can make me feel full for hours but at other times of the month i can eat virtually normally. i do have a 'thing' with eating, due to being an ex-anorexic. i am also very constipated mostly, i wont go to the toilet more than once a fortnight, if i'm lucky! and even when i do 'go' (sorry for being very descriptive) it's like am passing a very dark/ near black gluey tar substance and it usually have small traces of blood in it, but not a lot. i think i may have or have had 'piles' in the past and sometimes when i strain on the loo, i get a very small, extremely itchy lump right at my anus. so i put the trouble to going to the loo and the trace amounts of blood on the tissue, down to this. however i am getting pretty worried about these things, yet feel very foolish actually typing all this down, and because of my anxiety i have the problem of visiting the gp and then relaying what i am feeling to the doc. i know he will chalk it all up to anxiety as i did try once before and was given this nasty clear, sugary liquid to take to help me go to toilet, dynamite doesn't move me ha ha ha. when i google all my symptoms together i get loads of things for cancer etc, which terrifies me, but also a lot of other different things and when i google the symptoms separately, they dont seem too bad. as you can see, from the amount i've typed this is bothering me very much now and would like some advice and also if aomeone else has been suffering like myself and how they cope with the different symptoms. i might add, i have a hiatus hernia so avoid breads and wheat, citrus products mostly as these upset my stomach greatly, and i also am dairy intolerant altho i do occasionally partake of one tiny square of chocolate (emergencies only ) as the allergy is very very mild and only makes me feel nausious (hence my suspecting possible mis-diagnoses) again, i fear to go out to have all this double checked by my gp so accept what am told.
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