My knees hurt really badly and I went on Google which made me panic even more. I've been going to the gym every day for more than a week and the pain got worse. I tried to not weight lift and instead walk and bike more. But now im panicked because of the pain. It feels like it might be bad
The pain in my knee is really sharp too which is making me panic more, ik I shouldve stretched before working out and I didn't, like an idiot. So now im really panicked that I have knee cancer or maybe I ruined my knees working out
rule number one, never just trust google! what’s most likely causing your knee pain is just being sore from your workout, rest and relax it! stressing yourself out is just going to add more to the pain! try some stretching and massaging the area, and avoid working out for a bit!
Worse case scenario you have what I have which is arthritis and it’s very much manageable! NEVER GOOGLE IT IS NOT YOUR FRIEND!!! I bet you probably just pulled something or over extended. If it starts to swell bruise or turn hot or red then I’d see a doctor but if it’s just in pain put on icy hot and rest it for a while (no gym or just do arm stuff) until it feels better and then EASE back into it! Any questions just message me:)
Do you think its fine if i do light biking and walking at the gym? I also hurt my back somehow and i keep having back cramps and rib cramps. But i still want to go to the gym even if i do light stuff
@Solar eclipse Yes
I've been there. I've googled so many symptoms and thought I was having a stroke when I just had carpal tunnel. I can't give medical advice, but if it were me I'd wait to see if it gets better after a day or two. If not then I'd go to the doctor. It took me a long time before I stopped googling all of my symptoms. It's a hard habit to break. I hope your knees and anxiety ease.
hey, i'm really sorry to hear about your knee pain and the anxiety that it's causing you. it sounds really tough but please remember, you're not alone in this. we're here with you. 💪 by the way, have you heard about this new AI-powered OCD therapy tool called 'unstuck?' i've been right there in panic mode, and "unstuck" (unstuckmyocd.com/try), recommended to me by my NOCD therapist, was a lifesaver. it's designed to help when you're dealing with situations like this, providing you with a personalized step-by-step approach, just like an OCD therapist would. i think it'll be especially helpful for you because it could provide you with support dealing with the anxiety around your knee pain. i hate when people promote stuff, but i really think it can help you because it's changed my life. lmk if you have qs or just want to talk more! <3
Hey lovely🩷 I also have had this exact fear before lol, our minds are so creative. (Not to provide reassurance) but most likely you strained your knee somehow at the gym or in some other way… I wouldn’t worry too much about it & try to sit with that discomfort of the uncertainty a little until the pain hopefully subsides. All the best 🤍
I had an intense discomfort in my upper abdomen/lower chest (couldn’t really tell) for most of the day, and I have spent hours thinking I’m going to have a heart attack (despite being a decently healthy 18 yo) because of my moderate maybe chest pain combined with back/neck soreness and a headache (which I think was caused by the stress). I took some antiacids + neutralizers and the pain mostly went away, but everytime my head hurts or I breathe in too deep and feel a crook in my chest I immediately jump to heart attack. I’m scared to fall asleep because I think I’ll die in my sleep. I might go waste money at urgent care just because I need to hear from a professional that it’ll be okay. This similar feeling happened 3 weeks when I thought I had a brain aneurysm, I feel so scared
what helps you guys cope with thinking you’re sick and you’re going to die any second? i can’t help but look something up on my phone when i feel something slightly unusual. once i see some condition or whatever, i stick with it until i experience something new, and the cycle goes on. i’ve always felt that if there was something wrong with me i wouldn’t want to know and would rather die. i’m not suicidal but i don’t want to live in a world where im sick or feel doom because there’s nothing to do about it. i’ve gone to the doctor plenty of times and i recently got a lot of blood tests. they said nothing was wrong with me other than the fact i have depression and anxiety. so every time i feel worried about something, i just refer back to that and tell myself im healthy, which i am. at the moment, i keep getting worried im going to have a stroke. although i am a teenager, it’s still possible. just now i felt left sided pain in my jaw that went to the rest of my face so i started to get anxious which made everything seem more intense. then i reminded myself that i have impacted wisdom teeth that are growing in which could cause that type of pain. last night my leg cramped up and it felt painful to move. it felt exactly like when your leg falls asleep and you get that paralyzed feeling (if that makes sense). then i figured that happened because i just had a week of band camp and my leg muscles were pretty sore, especially that leg. my family doesn’t have any history of health issues which doesn’t mean that im invincible but it also reduces the risk. all of this really picked up after band camp from last year (2023) im guessing its my body having enough of it being overworked.
I wanna talk about psychosomatic symptoms. How powerful are they for you? Because sometimes symptoms start for me before I even know it’s linked to a disease—but then I Google it and it intensifies. I kind of wanna hear about the power of y’all’s psychosomatic symptoms bc I think it may make me feel better.
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