I have had severe health anxiety for the past almost two years. As a result I am very underweight and am risking losing my husband if I do not get this under control. I convinced myself I have a disease that my lab work and ultrasounds have proved otherwise, however, by googling it says they can be wrong and Iām constantly searching for symptoms and signs. I news help and Iām so ready
Currently struggling with health anxiety myself. looking up symptoms is the worst. Reddit is toxic. and ALOT and I mean AAA LLOOTTTT of symptoms of anxiety are similar to the symptoms of MANY diseases. I ended up going to the hospital with a nervous breakdown where I was told my fears were unlikely but OCD needed certainty. i have not realized the more I look up symptoms the worse I became. You can even develop psychosomatic symptoms( what I did- I read a possible side effect of a medication I was on and BAM I had it 5 minuets later and I'm now a month into trying to undo that psychological trauma I did to myself but I'm improving) You also sound like your body is unwell. One of the best things I did after my trip to the hospital was took 4 days off work, and my husband cooked me nutritious meals and FORCED me to eat 3 times a day- and FORCED me to take a slow walk n the evening sun and FORCED me to bed by 9 with my medications. healing your body is very important and your mind will continue to suffer if your body is not strong. Since you seem to desperate, do you want to tell me the disease you fear? i have a TINY bit of a PhD in google lol I might be able to help you rule it out as a place to start?
@TexasOCD41 Yeah I completely agree about Reddit! I convinced myself I have liver cirrhosis because I was drinking too much wine during the pandemic probably as a coping mechanism š« . Anyways I have zero symptoms aside from tiny spider angiomas that I have always had on and off since a child, but I have had several on my hands develop since before my baby was born (right before lockdown). Google says having more than 3 means that trigger word I donāt like so Iāve been absolutely spiraling. I have had 3 ultrasounds and 4 panels done in the last year and a half all showing a healthy liver, but then damn Reddit says well it can be missed. There are other tests I can do but will that be a line in the sand for me? I feel like they will bring me SOME comfort like the others did, but then Iāll think I need even more testing. ChatGPT was better at explaining normal healthy people can have these as well, so that was better than google. I am just ready to move on from this. Eating is a struggle but I do feel better when I force it down and donāt have an empty stomach. I also wonder if me having the constant stress is triggering these to pop up or if I just have never notched them before. They are so tiny and no one else can even see most of them lol.
@Anonymous - Ok so im going to do a bit of a no-no and give you a little bit or reassurance before giving tuff love. Can A lab be wrong? sure, but the likelihood of ONE lab being wrong is SOOO minimal its not discussed... so to have FOUR panals be wrong? absolutely not. Same with the ultrasounds. Liver Cirrhosis typically takes 10 years of HEAVY drinking. i bet 95% of the world became alcoholics during the pandemic so again. some bottles of wine in that time span? i was a HEAVY drinker for most of my 20s. my liver is perfect. Spider Angiomas can be a sign but there are other signs. you don't just get one or two spots and have a major organ failing and not have other more noticeable symptoms. But... i KNOW you are going to find a " but reddit said " to every thing iv said. Reddit is where the toxic people go to spread their horror stories. Reddit messed me up so bad its not funny. and you don't know the context of those peoples individual stories and you cant verify their honesty. Some people just want to watch the world burn and most of them have a reddit account. As a person who has done the Dr hopping for illusive conditions I will tell you, no, you will not find a line in the sand, OCD will just move it back further. BEST thing you can do is GET-OFF-THE-INTERNET STAY OFFFFFF REDDIT!! Live your life like you are absolutely fine because you are.
@TexasOCD41 Yeah thatās what my doctors have been telling me and I even found a doctor on Reddit who was like no you donāt have it, trust your doctors. I have quite a few of these things but they are only on my hands and are extremely small without the āleg likeā appearance. I have confirmation bias and thatās why I am so excited for my appointment with an OCD specialist next week! Iām so over this and just want to take the many doctors word for it and just be kind to myself and my body and move on. I appreciate your response! Itās always comforting to hear from other people that Iām not alone with this health anxiety, although I hate that for you. Itās crippling. But Iām excited to get better! Feel free to dm me to chat if you want to talk about what you me worries are. Or here! ā¤ļø
I am really suffering with health anxiety at the minute I am absolutely PETRIFIED of cancer and Im only 17 its draining the life out of me Ive had a cough / cold for two weeks now and ive felt itchy - Has anyone else ever just felt really itchy Im terrified in case I have cancer Im really really petrified I get so scared of death im really frightened SO frightened Im so so scared of the C. Uts scary
Hey friendsā¦ I am in a really low place regarding my health anxiety. I am absolutely terrified of cancer. Im only 17 years old and im worrying more about health then living my life its very draining. At the moment I have a very chesty cough which has lasted around two weeks and a runny nose and just full sinuses. I woke up from my sleep tonight and woke up completely wet in sweat and itchy. I am terrified in case ive got cancer. I get so so scared It genuinely is not only affecting me but everyone else around me im pulling them down too. š I am UK based and recently got a job and even then its all I can think about. Im crying my eyes out scared ā¹ļø To anyone else going through this your not alone and its so consuming. ā¤ļøāš©¹
I went to internal medicine today, and i'm not perfectly healthy, My liver is a little bit fat, I have to lose weight so thats okay, also I have gallsand, which is not gallstone yet but it can become that if its not treated. Now im like these arent big problems but when i heard these I started to overthink and think about the worse that I will have gallstones cause the doctor said I have it cause it runs in my family(my mother/grandmother and uncle had it) and I just think that it wont go away, and even if i doesn I will be worried all year if it came back. Im just so afraid. Also they said I should go get a blood check, but I said i will hesitate now cause last time i almost fainted and felt horrible the whole day, and now i hear from people i know that they went and they felt sick and vomited there. But the overthinking comes from me thinking if these little symptoms I experienced which I thought its because of anxiety, was because of health issues then the other symptoms I experience sometimes (headache and lightheadedness) are there cause of another health issue, and im worrying about my health, im afraid of death, i keep imagining myself if they tell me that i have terminal illness or something really bad and i dont know how to handle it. Now i feel nausea and i would say its because of stress but i keep thinking that its because of the health issues I have...I don't know how to handle this fear, if you ask others or therapists, they will say "yeah everyone is afraid of death and suffering" or "Try to think about something else" and i wont pay for advices like this...
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