POSSIBLE TRIGGER WARNING: MEDICAL ANXIETY (HYPOCHONDRIA)

If this goes against any of the rules or is taken as such, please let me know! I don't mean to trigger anyone and I don't necessarily want medical advice, just a few new coping skills to try out.

Does anyone have any tips with dealing with medical anxiety? I am working with a therapist and psychiatrist, so I do have a lot of support. I just feel like the coping strategies that are recommended aren't helping (put it on a shelf, breathing, journaling, removing myself, DBT based coping skills, etc.) Removing myself from certain situations has been extremely useful but it's not always appropriate to do so and has proven to backfire and cause more issues. 

Do coping skills work kinda like meds where you have to try them for a few months before they start working? I'm on month two of these skills.

I'm trying really hard to focus on my basics like diet and exercise as well as sleep since my anxiety is focused around medical things and have realized that I typically go in phases (my overall general well-being gets messed up depending on my moods and a few other factors, which makes sense. I'm currently in a bad sleep cycle which has been effecting other aspects of my health). With the sleeping thing though, my doctors have let me know that iron infusions might help me a bit, and gave me a referral so I'm waiting on that to go through. 

I'm sorry about the wall of text! I just feel weird talking about this to people other than my doctors, and there's a lot of information.... Plus I tend to go on tangents.