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I suffered with health ocd for years after my dad passed away. I have been in your situation as well. My headaches were debilitating and lasted for 3 months non stop. I was convinced I was dying of a brain tumor. The best thing to do is journal how you feel. I dont know why but it helps shift the energy in your body when you write down your emotions and how you are feeling. I still have a hard time doing to doctors but I find my health ocd has changed themes to rocd
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Deep breaths ( I know we hate to hear that ) You do not have a brain tumour, you do have anxiety and worry and that's okay. Focus on mending the issue that you do have, rather than creating an issue that you don't have :)
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- 6y
Chasing lace- my health anxiety started after my dad’s death too! It’s been about 8 months and I am struggling hard core. Hours googling, hundreds of dollars on doctors. What did you do to help or get the theme to shift?
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- 6y
I am still struggling, but I am getting better! I have spent multiple times in the drs and googling it’s been rough. Begging for scans but I just tell myself to stop worrying. After a while it becomes a a routine of checking yourself, googling etc you have to get out of that routine when you get the urge to google or exam yourself go do something clean, take a walk etc. I also bought a book called the worry trick it explains why we worry and examples or different scenarios the book is awesome you should buy it
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- 6y
I found that having a psychiatrist really helped. He was very good in the sense he told me I am not allowed to see a gp for health concerns anymore. I would need to go through him first and he would let me know if I needed to see a dr or not. I still suffer tho many years later, just not as bad. My OCD theme has switched :(
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- 6y
I suffer with relationship OCD and I am not even in a relationship or have been for 5 years this is my main concern now and it fricken sucks overanalyzing and overthinking. I do have a OCD recovery coach I found off of YouTube and she has been really helpful in explaining to me how OCD works. Her name is Ali Greymond
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- 6y
Is she worth the money?
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- 6y
Well I'm not recovered yet, but she has been helpful
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I had a migraine a little over a week ago after a few months of tremendous stress and anxiety. For a few days I was okay apart from a mild headache but then i got it into my head that I have a brain tumour. Yesterday I had the worst panic attack ever caused by all this overthinking. I started getting really dizzy, numb face and arm and I was convinced I had been correct and did have a brain tumour. The panic attack subsided after I calmed myself down a little bit but I am so anxious that I have a brain tumour. The numb feeling disappeared after the panic attack. But i have a dull headache, had a twitchy eye sometimes, and neck twitches. Sometimes when I really think about it I feel like I can’t focus or keep my vision straight. I can’t stop panicking about it I’m really really scared that there’s something wrong with me. I’m gonna go to the doctors to ask about it but i just needed to vent. I feel like recently I’m spending all the time thinking I have a brain tumour and it is honestly terrifying me so much.
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- 18w
so about a week ago around june 12 or 13 coming back from the beach i was having vulva pain on one of the lips then eventually i went to grandmas house and everytime i bent down or moved around i was having some sharp pain “down there” eventually i was scared and then it started to kinda hurt to pee… and i was like ok this is kinda worrying me eventually i forgot about it for two days it didn’t hurt but then i come back and start to have it again. so then i was like okay i’m just gonna schedule a doctors appointment. i schedule my doctors appointment got tested and i was negative for UTI but i was having bad lower back psi so they sent off a cultural test and told me a few days after that i have bacterial vaginosis so i was like ok i’m guessing to get antibiotics for it… i get the antibiotics yesterday theyre capsules i can’t swallow them but i cut them and put it in apple sauce where it was so gross the smell was awful and the taste was awful… atp i got a liquid i haven’t took it yet.. but my stomach has been hurting and had numbness and weird tingling feeling down there… where it’s scaring me and now my stomach hurts almost like cramps but it makes me so nervous… i keep thinking i have ovarian cancer or some type of cancer or a cyst or kidney stones… even tho they told me i have bacterial vaginosis somehow i can’t believe them… but i soon start my period on the 30th and my OCD gets so bad 2 weeks before my period and symptoms start a week before my period… idk i’ve never had this OCD go out for so long but like my urine looks fine it’s just when i pee now it’s almost feels weird idk my stomach is hurting rn when i lay down and i’ve been freaking out ugh. and this morning i had sorenness down there… i also had some inner thigh pain… i can’t stop googling i keep thinking it’s something worse than i have from what the doctor told me
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