Does your OCD ever cause/make worse physical symptoms? I had some weird and vague health stuff - lightheaded, dizzy, fatigue, nausea, etc. - and definitely see now that I was obsessing and ruminating on the symptoms and what might be happening to me. They didn’t go away for months. I took every test my doctor could think of and everything was clear. I’m wondering now if my OCD was making those symptoms persist and worsen..? Like maybe they were related to anxiety generally and the obsessing was making it stay longer? Has anyone had an experience like this?

I can attest to this 1000%! I had really severe health ‘anxiety’ (was more like OCD) for months. Everyday was spent googling, checking, ruminating, etc. (I’m aware that you’re just talking about whether anxiety can exacerbate symptoms, but I was just prefacing with that just so you know the severity of what I’ve experienced!) If I had read online about a brain tumour for example, if it spiked my anxiety enough, I would spend that day feeling out of my body, my eyes would go weird, my hearing would go weird, ALL because I had read about a brain tumour. I rarely struggle with health anxiety now, and I have literally no physical symptoms. I know what’s anxiety and what’s not. Back then, I had no clue and they all meshed into one and it was exhausting. Anxiety can MOST DEFINITELY manifest in really weird ways, and definitely through nausea etc.