I posted this on the healing ministry board also. I thought I'd check here also. Here is the message that I think applies for this forum as well. The lymph and fibro info is towards the bottom of this message. Sorry this is so long but I have so much to express.
I need prayers for healing please. I feel frightened and alone and hurt all over. I have suffered severe stress, anxiety, difficult life events and now health issues on top of it all. I thinkI might have fibromyalgia. I have suffered from various aches and pains for ages. I wonder if stress could be a factor:
For example, my husband got three DUIs in three years and is just now finishing up his punishment and treatment. My mother is in jail for a long time for repeated felony theft and is severely addicted to painkillers. In March I was diagnosed with a questionable 2 mm unruptured brain aneurysm and told by a neurosurgeon that it was too small to mess with and that he wasn't even sure what it was and just to go home. Since then I have developed debilitating anxiety. I feel very alone. I am a mom of two (I work at home and they are always with me at least when school is out) and I need to be healthy and strong for my children. I have a career and my own business. I need strength and health. I just feel so sore and overwhelmed and scared.
I am a new Christian (the only one in my entire family). I recently joined a church (my friend's church, they prayed for me and the aneurysm issue while I was waiting to see the neuro and I went and liked it very much) and I am going to be baptized Sunday. Here is my story and right now what I feel I need the most help with overcoming. This is a copy and paste of a message I posted at another health forum. I am reaching out because I have no one at home to reach out to. My mom is gone and my husband treats me like an annoying burden. Anyway, here is the info about me:
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Hello everyone. I am 29, female. Had a painful armpit lump which doc said was fibrocystic breast changes. Pain got worse even after my period recently ended so I went to ER today. ER doc says it is an infected lymph node. Started me on Zithromax. I took two pills today and I am to take one each day for four days after.
That was earlier today. Since then, I feel even worse. I not only hurt under my armpit, but all over. My breasts and chest feel sore in different places. My lower back aches. I feel achy and sore all over my body.
I am scared that I have cancer, or some kind of dangerous lung infection, or kidney infection.
I even paged my doctor and he hasn't even called back. Because I am also being treated for Generalized Anxiety Disorder (with Celexa and Xanax), he treats me like a hypochondriac.
I am wondering if I have fibromyalgia. In a way, I hope I do because it is benign and could explain all my aches and pains.
I have been aching, hurting and crying all evening. I don't have any family to accompany me to the hospital or doctor and basically I feel loney, scared and sore all over. I have a bad habit of imagining the worst case scenario.
Could my bodily pain be fibromyalgia? Could it just be a side effect of the lymph node infection? Should I go back to the ER? I feel like everyone treats me like a hypochondriac and I dread the embarrassment but as I said I hurt all over.
Basically I don't know what my next step should be. I took two Advil (400 mg each) and .5 mg of Xanax and I am just waiting for relief so I can try to rest. I don't want to run out to the ER and waste hours there for nothing but I don't want to ignore something serious either.
Thanks,
Angela
I need prayers for healing please. I feel frightened and alone and hurt all over. I have suffered severe stress, anxiety, difficult life events and now health issues on top of it all. I thinkI might have fibromyalgia. I have suffered from various aches and pains for ages. I wonder if stress could be a factor:
For example, my husband got three DUIs in three years and is just now finishing up his punishment and treatment. My mother is in jail for a long time for repeated felony theft and is severely addicted to painkillers. In March I was diagnosed with a questionable 2 mm unruptured brain aneurysm and told by a neurosurgeon that it was too small to mess with and that he wasn't even sure what it was and just to go home. Since then I have developed debilitating anxiety. I feel very alone. I am a mom of two (I work at home and they are always with me at least when school is out) and I need to be healthy and strong for my children. I have a career and my own business. I need strength and health. I just feel so sore and overwhelmed and scared.
I am a new Christian (the only one in my entire family). I recently joined a church (my friend's church, they prayed for me and the aneurysm issue while I was waiting to see the neuro and I went and liked it very much) and I am going to be baptized Sunday. Here is my story and right now what I feel I need the most help with overcoming. This is a copy and paste of a message I posted at another health forum. I am reaching out because I have no one at home to reach out to. My mom is gone and my husband treats me like an annoying burden. Anyway, here is the info about me:
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Hello everyone. I am 29, female. Had a painful armpit lump which doc said was fibrocystic breast changes. Pain got worse even after my period recently ended so I went to ER today. ER doc says it is an infected lymph node. Started me on Zithromax. I took two pills today and I am to take one each day for four days after.
That was earlier today. Since then, I feel even worse. I not only hurt under my armpit, but all over. My breasts and chest feel sore in different places. My lower back aches. I feel achy and sore all over my body.
I am scared that I have cancer, or some kind of dangerous lung infection, or kidney infection.
I even paged my doctor and he hasn't even called back. Because I am also being treated for Generalized Anxiety Disorder (with Celexa and Xanax), he treats me like a hypochondriac.
I am wondering if I have fibromyalgia. In a way, I hope I do because it is benign and could explain all my aches and pains.
I have been aching, hurting and crying all evening. I don't have any family to accompany me to the hospital or doctor and basically I feel loney, scared and sore all over. I have a bad habit of imagining the worst case scenario.
Could my bodily pain be fibromyalgia? Could it just be a side effect of the lymph node infection? Should I go back to the ER? I feel like everyone treats me like a hypochondriac and I dread the embarrassment but as I said I hurt all over.
Basically I don't know what my next step should be. I took two Advil (400 mg each) and .5 mg of Xanax and I am just waiting for relief so I can try to rest. I don't want to run out to the ER and waste hours there for nothing but I don't want to ignore something serious either.
Thanks,
Angela
