could i be overreacting?

[sarahsfocus]

i take good days and bad days.i take days i cry and somedays I'm ok.i went last week to the doctor and took a papsmear and i have a Bartholins cyst on my right side.I took and hpv and Chylmydia and gonnoreah test.they all came back negative.I'm so scared they will find something when i go back to the doctor tomorrow.please help me.I am paralyzed with fear.

[specialmom]

Hormone replacement was done all the time in previous decades and it is now much less popular.  Some have been associated with an increase risk of breast cancer for example.  None of my friends will do this type of therapy (we are all of that age) because of this. You are pretty young for menopause, hon.  When I said talk to your doctor, I was guessing that being on the therapy was involved in the increased anxiety.  :>)  Not that you needed to be on hormones.  I think you need to treat your anxiety AS anxiety.  Whatever that means you and your doctor.  This can include talk therapy and/or medication and the things known to help cope with anxiety such as increased exercise, meditation, yoga, deep breathing, journaling, etc.  good luck

[specialmom]

Yes, talk to your doctor about the hormonal replacement therapy you are on.  Hormones definitely can affect us emotionally and your increased anxiety may be connected.  

[SAMJMEYER]

Wishing you the best for your results.  

[sarahsfocus]

i wanted to update you all.my Bartholins cyst has burst and i had one cyst in my Uterus and i think it has burst as well. also i have an enlarged Uterus i have Endometroisis which means i will have a heavy period until i'm done with Menopause or i die.

[sarahsfocus]

they won't give me hormone replacement by the way.

[Paxiled]

I used to manage health food stores for a long time, and although it's been awhile, at that time we had quite a lot of women who ended up seeing practitioners of natural medicine because doctors were just completely clueless about endometriosis.  Sometimes it takes doctors a long time to catch up to real people.  Some of these folks got a lot better through holistic medicine and the lifestyle changes they brought.  You might want to think about seeing a naturopath or practitioner of integrated medicine, which is an MD who also practices natural medicine, or some other practitioner and see if you can't make some improvements.  As I say, at one time, this was the only option for a lot of women because doctors weren't diagnosing this or even looking for it, and some of them did improve a lot.

[specialmom]

These cysts are not uncommon.   2 out of 10 women get one and only rarely does it have anything to do with an std.  And you've been checked for std's recently.  So, being anxious just about the cyst is not necessary.  I do understand though that it is not pleasant.  And I understand when anxiety makes our health issues seem bigger than they are.  So, see your doctor for the cyst and then after, talk to the doctor about anxiety symptoms and that it may be time to treat that as a disorder.  good luck  

[sarahsfocus]

thank you so much for your comment.i will try and stay positive and talk to my doctor  about this

[Paxiled]

And be very wary of hormone replacement.  Lots of problems with that and should only done for those who find it necessary.

[sarahsfocus]

my doctor won't give me no kind of hormone replacement until i am though with menopause.so I'm going to talk to my regular doctor about it.

[Paxiled]

Did you suffer from paralyzing anxiety before you started getting these medical possibilities, or did it only start with this current scare?  If it was always there and this has made it worse, you have a chronic anxiety problem and a good start would be to find a psychologist who specializes in anxiety treatment and see if you can't learn some relaxation techniques and begin a process of trying to retrain your way of thinking about things.  

[sarahsfocus]

yes i think as i have gotten older i have more anxiety.i'm wondering if i need hormone replacement.