my fear of having an operation with an automatic breathing machine has gone too !


Question: My fear of having an operation with an automatic breathing machine has gone too far. can any1 help?
Recently, i had developed a fear of appendicitis which got me worrying and worrying and got me nowhere. From that fear, sprug another fear of surgery after my mum told me they stuck tubes down your throat, at which point i started to freak out. Then she told me they hooked you up to an automatic breathing machine which is just horrible ( this is my worst fear as i find it creepy, icky and unnatural) and that they cut you open. For a squeamish person that i am, i had developed an anxiety. But then my mum told me this -
- you are fit and healthy
- most people dont undergo operations
- you dont feel anything as you are knocked out
- it is over and done with quickly and unlikely to go wrong.
- if i am unsure of anyrhing i have my mum who is a nurse to look to and she will give me support

But what if it does go wrong? What if i vomit and cant breathe? I have never been knocked out before and i would find it scary.
I have been down this route of anxiety before, have seen councillors about my anxiety but yet another anxiety creeps up Me and i just wanna enjoy my life. Can anybody help me?

Answers:

It's no good worrying about something that may never happen, and as for being knocked out it's a little injection and you hardly feel a thing and once you are out you don't know anything that they are doing.
If you worry that you might get ill that's more likely to make you ill, so make the most of being fit and healthy while you are young.



try to be fit always




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