How to Calm Fear While Waiting for Test Results

Have you ever had to have a medical test done and had to deal with the anxiety of waiting for the results?  You try to keep positive, but you find negative thoughts plaguing your mind?

Medical technology is advancing by leaps and bounds, as more efficient ways of testing for sickness and disease are approved. Various procedures are detecting earlier, are less invasive, and more accurate.

These are wonderful advancements that work in favor of all of us.

But when it comes to going to the doctor for testing, the procedure may be very helpful. However, one thing that medical technology doesn’t have a handle on is how the patient fills in the time it takes to receive results from testing.

We Aren’t Usually A Patient Society

Society in general tends to resist patience. We like fast food, fast cars, and quick fixes. It’s a hurry up and wait kind of lifestyle. We want results and we want them now. Add the mixture of fear, negative thinking, and the unknown, and you have pretty much given yourself a death sentence before you leave the doctor’s office.

Waiting to receive test results can be quite stressful at times, and the waiting period tends to drag on for what seems like forever. For as much as modern medicine has improved, the wait time can still be quite longer than we think necessary. But it is something we all must endure.

So, what can we do during the waiting time to ease the anxiety? Calm the fears?

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