Update: saw my gastro dr. for a follow up and med check today. We did some labs today to see how the meds are effecting my system and if it is still safe for me to take them. I am improving slowly and the goal is to get me into remission without doing damage. We are adding a steroid to the mix for 3 weeks than once I receive a safer med from my meds by mail program we will replace the steroid with it for 6 weeks. I see the doctor in 3 months and if all is well, that means I am in remission and we have the right mix. Than we will start trying to cut back on some of the meds. If I am not well by than, we will be adding a stronger steroid for a while. Anyway for now I am feeling a bit better and am taking it easy for now and very happy to be done with all the appointments for a while. I am looking forward to this 3 month rest...Red...
Red, Don't say chilling out because we've been lucky(outside of California) with little snow. Just missed my fitness class, because I thought I could take a bus(car battery is weak). And then I went to a lecture one week early, in the bitter cold. I get an "A" for effort.
No need to worry about the site shutting down. We experienced an error that took awhile to fix but we are all good now. Thanks for coming back and checking in on the site. We need you veterans's around as your contributions are always greatly appreciated.
Me too. There seemed to have been a problem with site for over a week. Yesterday was the first time that the site let me post in over a week. I wonder if the site is getting ready to shut down permanently or something... Strange...
Davit funny how we all have our own fears regarding health it seems in some way. Like me for instance I do not have health anxiety in the usual sense as described. I do have a fear of doctors, clinics, and hospitals and of course the never ending bills if I happen to need services from one of them. Not to mention the fact that they are all really just PRACTICING medicine as they say. My experience has been that few are really good at it and I have become very sick over the last few years that they have been practicing on me. I have been taking my new meds for 2 weeks now and I seem to be getting better so maybe they finally got it right this time. I sure hope so. Now once I pay them all off I just might be able to take a deep breath and relax again. I have 3 more appointments to do over the next 3 months and haven't decided if I am going to go yet. I sure Don't Want to. I have meds coming in the mail that will last me a year before I really Have to see them again and if I am feeling really well I think I will quit seeing the doc's while I'm ahead. I see no reason to see doctors unless I am sick. No reason to go looking for trouble and spending more money where it doesn't need to be spent. No reason to add to there retirement account while they deplete my life's savings...Well that's my two cents worth..I can not get away from them fast enough and once I do I know that all my anxiety will leave me forever and I will truly be well again.. Amen!!!
One constant factor with HA is that they focus on health rather than the anxiety. Their health is very real to them so in a way, they are in the same boat as us. There it ends. We treat our health because it is real and we treat our anxiety because it is real. They focus on the supposed disease instead of the anxiety, the anxiety runs rampant inducing thoughts that they must be sick because the anxiety makes them think they are. 24/7. It is very bad yet curable if they would just focus on curing the anxiety so they could look at their symptoms rationally.
