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Hope everyone’s doing well. Just wanted to give an update. Made a trip to the ER today as the headaches, nausea, and vomiting all returned Saturday and today. They’ve been very inconsistent, having not happened on Friday and Sunday, but happening Saturday and today. I finally decided enough was enough. I needed to get this figured out. Well..... i sorta got it figured out. Not really. Doctor I saw in the ER said I do not have migraines, just chronic tension headaches, as I’m not having any symptoms other than the headache that relate to the migraine. No scans were ordered because of the inconsistency of the headache. No triggers have been found. So.... yeah. 🥺 Doc prescribed me gabapentin and zofran to use for the headache to replace the naproxen. So I guess that’s where I’ll go for now.

It wouldn’t surprise me if your anxiety is on edge and through the roof because of what your dad is experiencing. Because you have an emotional connection to your father, it probably is making your anxiety more amplified because the implications of his treatment and what he is going on. It is possible that you are mimicking his symptoms, but it may also not be the case. We wouldn’t know. We’re not in your body.

Like bin said, bruising can happen based on a lot of different factors. You don’t have to hit something in order to bruise. In my opinion, unless it starts to become extremely painful or turns black or blue, it won’t be anything to worry about in the near future

Well y’all, I come to you with great news. Woke up and have been going about my day migraine-free! I had a few headaches pop up during the night, but they were less severe, and did not keep me up much. Super happy that we keep progressing!

Blood levels are going to fluctuate all the time. I can't tell you how many times I have had bloodwork done and sometimes, some of the levels barely fell out or went above the reference range. Unless your doctor made a note that it is abnormal, then it's nothing to worry about

Still a work in progress it appears.... Headaches have been worse today, and I mean, much worse. Woke up at 12:30am with my first, had a few different ones come on and off through the night, and then they continued to persist into the morning. One got so bad I started dry heaving, but nothing came up. After that, everything’s been fine. No headache since. Took the sertraline earlier today to see if that’ll help with the sleeplessness at night and also just to get back to a morning routine with that.... Me right now:

Glad to hear it’s just a stone and nothing more serious. Good luck with the rest!

Always appreciated.

Big congrats to you!! Seems like you’re ready to embark on this great life journey!! Yep, hormones are gonna be out of wack as your body gets adjusted to hosting the baby. In turn, anxiety will rear its ugly head. Just tell it, no. I’m having a baby. Don’t mess this shit up LOL. Cant wait to hear the progress!

Alright.... it’s progress. Not the perfect definition of progress, but progress nonetheless. I’ll explain. Took the first dose of sertraline yesterday at 4:00pm. No severe side effects. Always a good sign. Kinda had a hard time sleeping last night, fell asleep at 11:00pm, woke up at 12:30am. Took me an hour to finally fall back asleep at 1:30am, woke up at 7:30am. Not bad. Woke up feeling great. No headache. Felt great. And then the headache came. I thought “oh hell, here we go again”. Well, it actually ended up not being too bad. Had the headache come on and off, but my body fought it off before it got to the point of making me nauseous and sick, or even dry heaving for that matter. Decided to take a nap to get rid of it once and for all, and it worked. So.... Progress! Second dose of sertraline is now in my system. Let’s hope things keep getting better.

Like bin said, not uncommon at all with anxiety. I’ve learned that the more I focused more on my breathing, the more irregular it got because I got so focused on it. Once you find ways to distract yourself from it, it’ll subside

UPDATE: Took the sertraline at 4:00pm, and so far, no side effects after a few hours. Hopefully it stays that way

Grace..... Grace Grace Grace Grace Grace...... Are you even telling your therapist about these irrational fears? This has gotta stop if you wanna get over this.

I've seen people that have had blood in their urine just one time, and then it clears up, and they've never found a cause for it. Sometimes it just happens it seems like.

Awesome! I’ll be taking 25mg once daily, so I’m hoping it gets rid of these side effects I’m experiencing.

Like Molly said, if two doctors told you that you were fine, then you gotta trust them. I know it may seem hard, but there's no reason in doubting someone who's gone to school for that stuff. Stay on course with the antibiotics and hopefully you should clear up in no time.

Wish me luck everyone. Beginning my Sertraline today since it is ready.

I had a feeling that was the case, but hey, what do I know LOL? Never knew you worked in that field! That's super cool!

How in the world are you still living on this planet if you only drink water ONCE A MONTH?!

Alright..... we might be getting somewhere folks. After waking up with YET ANOTHER MOTHER(CUSS WORDS GALORE) MIGRAINE this morning IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT AT 3:00AM (can't you tell I'm having a grand ol' time ), I decided to call the pediatrician that prescribed me the Prozac, and she thought it might be time to change my medication to see if that truly is what is causing the migraines. She is gonna switch me to 25mg of Sertraline. My dumb hypochondriac mind is saying what if serotonin syndrome happens because I'm upping the dose? Anyone have any advice on that? Could anyone please share their experience with Sertraline? Also, urgent care never got back to my request for my appointment, so I'll call them tomorrow. Luckily, I was fine the entire day today.

Man, you had a crazy week it appears! I'm sure the anxiety will calm down as soon as you get back to your normal routine. Congrats on the engagement bud!!!

Will do. I sent an appointment request with the urgent care, so hopefully should hear back from them early tomorrow morning.

Thanks for your reply Holls. That appears to be a common trend I'm seeing with people who have suffered with anxiety at some point in their lives. Unfortunately, woke up again with a migraine headache, and threw up the naproxen that I tried to take before the headache got bad. And I had more incontinence this morning. If things don't get better today, then I'm gonna go to the ER, but if they stay fine for the day, I'll just follow up with the urgent care doctor that I saw last week once they have availability tomorrow.

So as you guys have been able to tell, I haven't really been posting about my own anxiety battle and concerns recently. That's because for the last three weeks to a month, I feel like I've made a drastic improvement in my anxiety. It's been months since I've had a panic attack, it's been months since I've actually felt anxious mentally. But I'm still not 100%. Recently, I've noticed that some of my older symptoms, physical symptoms that is, are coming back. Especially my urinary incontinence. Just these past few days, I've had more incontinence episodes than I've had in previous weeks, and it's starting to become an issue again. My muscle twitches in my legs have become more persistent in certain positions, but overall, the twitches are becoming more aggressive, but last for short amounts of time. My migraines have been on and off, actually vomited this morning as a result of one, but I was able to get it cleared up and have been fine the rest of the day. Other than today, whenever I've felt one coming on, I've just taken the naproxen, and it's stopped it from happening. I'm also still not able to put as much weight in my legs as I want, which is putting a lot of strain on my arms when I'm trying to get in cars and transfer to different places other than my wheelchair. I've had every medical test under the sun done. X-ray (normal), CT scan (normal), EKG (normal), bloodwork (all labs normal despite high cholesterol, it runs in the family LOL), urine test (two urine tests I've taken have come back clear), pulmonary function studies (lungs have improved), ultrasound of bladder, kidneys and prostate gland (according to urologist, all is normal), thyroid ultrasound (both nodes still remain benign). What confuses me about all these physical symptoms that I am experiencing is that they are still present despite my anxiety being at a true non-existent state. All these symptoms that I am experiencing were not around before this anxiety started. All these symptoms started when the anxiety started. We've obviously considered the possibility that it is just the "perfect storm" of timing, and these don't correlate with the anxiety at all, but it really is hard to think it isn't from the anxiety when these symptoms weren't happening when I didn't have anxiety. My therapist, family, and I have talked about the way that the subconscious works, and how it is possible that it is still continuing anxiety and its symptoms even though I may not feel anxious. I've always been told how there is ways to control my subconscious, but truly, I still feel like I can't tap into my subconscious, and say, "Hey, I'm OK. I'm not in any danger." Do you all think that it is truly possible that my subconscious is still manipulating me and causing these symptoms? What can I do to tap into it and get these symptoms reduced? Is there anything I may be missing here? I appreciate all y'all's advice in advance!

Otten is right, pain is rarely ever the main symptom of cancer. Take it from a fellow cancer survivor (that's me by the way). I would think that you are just more in tune with your body and you are just feeling every little thing your body is producing.