FEAR: Is it normal to be so frightened that we get paranoia?

[MAFG666]

I'm a trucker and felt a little numb round my feet, I related with what the nurse told me about extremeties and though only 5.6 averaging: I concluded I was ill. An hour later I switched the heater from screen to footwell: I felt a proper mug- my feet soon warmed up. I do have screws in my feet that attract the cold. Did you all get hyperparanoia with fear of your new illness?

 

[pleinster]

Hell yeah. I had an odd numb sensation where my big toe joins my foot and was thinking..oh great...but when I stopped sitting with it bent as I used my computer..guess what? Yeah..I guess we will get used to it and worry less...a bit..kinda. After my transplant, i kept thinking it's gonna reject...it hasn't yet....and now I think if it happens it happens. Worrying about it will do zilch other than increase my stress. So I decided to feel good about there being no sings of rejection, and to feel good that my diabetes was caught early and that I took control of my diet and turned things around a bit. Hey, one day we could be worrying about some odd feeling in our feet when a bus goes right over the top of us, you know?

 

[Daphne917]

When my husband was diagnosed with an aortic aneurysm and it had got to the stage that it could burst within a year waiting for his op was nerve racking.