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And I know breast cancer is so rare at young ages like in 20s and 30s but my mind keeps telling me you need to worry you need to worry and I can’t stop examining myself it even hurts now to touch them ??
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Touching your breast is a compulsion, try to minimize them and focus on the worst case scenario (constant ERP) until we are no longer afraid of it
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Don’t want to reassure you because that keeps you in the OCD cycle But just know many people out there relate to this and your not alone
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Health anxiety is more common than you this. I have healt ocd and somatic anxiety. I haven't been feeling good this past week and literally my mind came up with the worst possible disease. I would literally move next to the hospital to lessen my anxiety. But you got this, you're most probably healthy and your ocd is just messing with you. Try not to give in the thoughts
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I am healthy I had exams tons of times lab work done ultrasound less then a year ago of both breast and I still can’t seem to shake the fibrocystic lumps that I get even under my breast near my rib cage I worry it’s something bad
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If the exams were negative then just know it's your ocd. I went to the e.r last week because I thought I was having a heart attack turned out it was a panic attack now my obessions is like yours plus sometimes you may find lumps in your breast but they aren't always malign or sign of something bad. Maybe you wanna have a checkup to check your overall healt that's okay, but try not to feed your ocd as much. I know how hard and scary it is especially with health
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I also worried about breast cancer at 22, 23 and 24. I had an ultrasound and everything was fine, so my OCD switched to HIV fear instead, and I had two tests and both came back negative and like you I just can't shake the thought. I also find it so hard to accept and believe the tests despite them being 99.99% accurate
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omg I have also Breast Cancer OCD, I think women are so scared because all the media to it. I do lots of ERP imaging myself getting a biopsy that turns out to be cancer and then dying from it again and again and again. I think ERP is working, every time I’m less and less scared of it even though my anxiety is extremely high
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Health anxiety sucks and ocd to! I have been struggling so bad every time I feel a new lump I worry currently are work and constantly going to the bathroom to check my breast. I have fibrocystic breast so my breast are naturally lumpy expecially certain times a month but I worry every time I touch my breast and feel those lumps?
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The internet is a horrible thing! I constantly am worrying and searching the web thinking I have what it says online and my lump is cancer
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I understand you Kendall we are on the same page right now, our boobs are connected. Sounds funny but we are suffering from the same thing. I actually stopped working 2 months ago since my fear of breast cancer is unbearable. The only thing that has helped me so far is doing lots of ERP where I ended up suffering so much due the biopsies, how they found out is actually cancer and dying at the end from it. Now it doesn’t seem that scary anymore however that doesn’t mean I don’t have constant anxiety about it 24/7
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