Anxiety Is Killing Me From Inside Posted: 05-26-05 11:55am
Hello all, I am happy I found this forum
so I have a chance of meeting some people
who can relate with what I am going
through. I am 25 years old and for a year
now I am having big anxiety problems.
It's going to be a little long and I 'm
sorry if you get tired reading it. I just
want you to get the whole picture.
It all started one year ago. That time 3
friends of my parents got cancer and I
started researching for the illness. I
also remember in my late teens to be
having anxiety problems with my health but
they aren't worth mentioning. So I
researched for this disease and I read a
lot of things about it. Then one day I
started having these pains around my
stomach , nothing big but still unpleasant
little sharp pains. Then my back started
to ache, then I started feeling cold.
This went on for 25 consecutive days and I
was so miserable. I thought I had some
kind of cancer. I went to the doctor and
I took a blood test and some scans and
everything was fine. Pains stopped 1 day
after the results.
3 months later I got a headache. I
started thinking about it and I thought it
was a brain tumour even though the only
symptom I had was a slight headache. This
went on for 18 days , where I was in a
very bad psychological state and very
miserable. I did some scans on my head
and after the good results , the headache
stopped.
2 months later I got another 12 day
headache , but this time I avoiding
getting another scan. Instead I went on a
trip with my girlfriend and the headache
stopped.
1 month later, I started having dyspepsia
for some reason , maybe a virus or
something. I thought I had stomach cancer
and with my anxiety the discomfort went on
for a month. I got some scans and blood
tests and everything was fine. The pains
stopped along with the dyspepsia.
2 weeks ago , a girl did a blow job to me
and with her teeth irritated my skin. The
next day I started freaking out that I
might have gotten aids from her even
though no blood from me came out , and we
had no other sexual contact. I started
reading about the aids symptoms , and now
I am experience them one by one. I went
to see 6 doctors the past 10 days and all
are telling me that the chances I might
have been infected from her(if she is
infected) are little to none, but this
can't calm me down. I am stressed 24/7
and I can't seem to relax. I now have
symptoms like frequent headaches (in the
back of my head, numbness on back of the
neck), diarrhea, sweats and a constant
feeling of a lump in my throat. Are these
anxiety symptoms ? Because I am relating
them to aids and I am really freaking out.
The doctors said to me that aids symptoms
do not happen so soon ( I have them since
day 5 after the episode) but I am afraid
they are saying that to me only to get me
relax. I know I have to wait 3 months to
get tested for aids and this by itself
stresses me even more.
I had psychotherapy in the past but it
didn't work out, but maybe I didn't give
it much time. I am against any
medication, but I am afraid that my
situation keeps getting worse.
I have no idea what to do, is there
anybody else here that can relate to these
feelings? Sometimes I feel that I am all
alone in the world, that nobody
understands what I am going through :( .
Any advice , or anything would be
nice.
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