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gi3s

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Posted: 10-07-05 09:32am

Hello everyone, i've been reading all post lately and can absolutely related to all of you, when I was 20yrs I lost a baby, and that year I went through so many changes, one of them was becoming a hypochondriac,
i had every disease at that time, aids was the most you hear and I couldn't even put tv on, thank god at that time I had no computer, I thought I had skin cancer, I would check my body everyday,and everyday I would find a mark, mole that I didn't see before. It was terrifying :shock: the anxiety, the constant fear, I don't think that unless youa regoing through that you can understand, I wrote a journal with everything that was happening, which when i've been fine i've read and I laugh. I had a lot of depression as well, I did not work so I was home all day so that will even be worse, my husband was great, I didn't want to cook, he hired catering service, I looked more depressed he took me to the beach house almost every week-end, and I paid him by staying in the room because I was going to make my disease worse with the sun, :roll: I went to psychiatrist and was put on prozac,triavil & xanax. Everything was better for a month because I was drugged out of my mind, I don't think I could get out off bed, but after 6 months it got much better./when my son was born 5 years after,it started again, my husband got mono and I didn't want my son near him or anybody else of my family becasue he was born premature, I would check him everyday take him to the doctor for the slightest cold, and all the old feelings started again. I am 40 yrs old and I don't have the hypochondriac, i've gone :roll: e through a lot w/my family disease, my father died of lung cancer, my mom was diagnosed w/tonsil cancer, went through every chemo and is ok, my husb had open heart surgery and a stroke and my son was born with a heart defect and had surgery when he was 2,i've had 5 premature preganacy which none survived, so I stop. This much I can tell you the symptoms that you read for disease, can be deceiving they really doesn't necessarily correspond with the disease, I learned all this through all the death and disease of my family, trust me, they never follow the rules, my dad never coughed, lungs cleared, no symptom. My mom's disease was by chance. And my husband well high blood pressure is his problem, but we didn't know he was havinga stroke until it had passed, he was paralyzed for 6 months. So stop reading webmd, some disease are notthat serious.
Right now I am on xanax because of panic attacks.
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kadesha

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Me Too
Posted: 10-12-05 10:45am

I feel like I have everything in the world too, I have recently thought I was having a heart attack, heart disease, ovarian cancer, multiple sclorosis, and a ton of other things. Right now I am convinced I have a brain tumor because I get these weird pains in my head in different places and sometimes get the "pins and needles" sensation in my head. Does this sound like an anxiety related problem to you all?
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gi3s

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Posted: 10-12-05 11:25am

Yes, I beleive it is related to anxeity because it happens to me too. Xanax has helped quite a lot.
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ARO

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Posted: 10-12-05 19:05pm

I just found this forum today, and this is my first post.

A heart attack is mostly what I think i'm dying of, and when it happens its going to happen in public with a thousand people to witness it.
But i'm sure that I have lung cancer, brain tumor, colon cancer, ovarian cancer, breast cancer, diabetes, low blood pressure, seizures are imminent and I am going blind.

I had to laugh while I was reading in this discussion, because its so me. I have wasted many hours online checking my symptoms for various diseases.
And I know how absurd it is. I know there's nothing wrong with me, i'm only in my 20's, my medical records have nothing on them and when I complain to my doctor she can never find anything. But still, I can't stop feeling that there is something wrong with me.

Anyway, its very comforting to know that i'm not the only one who feels this way, and maybe there is nothing physically wrong with me. :d
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gi3s

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Posted: 10-13-05 11:11am

No you are not the only beleive me, and the funny thing is that it feels so real and people don't understand it, if you don't mind me asking are taking any medication? I suffered all that quietly letting it disrupt my life even my honeymoon..Until I was put on medication and it helped me a lot.
That is not my problem at this time I overcame that sense of panic of having some disease, eventhough doctors tell you that you don't, eventhough you are braver than I was I didn't want to go to the doctor because I was sure they were going to tell me the horrible news..
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ARO

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Posted: 10-13-05 19:12pm

My doctor had me taking zyban for a while to help me stop smoking, and it was supposed to help my anxiety too, but it didn't really do anything - it actually made me more anxious because I was always afraid that I was having one of the side effects listed on the information packet or I was afraid that I would accidentally take too much and overdose. I started taping a little note to the pill bottle telling me whether or not there should be an even or odd number if I had taken it, and I started having to count them every time I needed to take one. Not fun.
Right now I am easing off of it. I've decided pills are not for me.
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(psp)snake

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Re: Wow
Posted: 01-22-06 21:02pm

laura0126 wrote:
i thought it was just me.


Colon cancer
brain tumor
anuyerism
appendicitis
lung cancer
pretty much any cancer.

Meningitis

it all started after my son was born. I am scared to death I am going to die and leave him here. Anyone else felt like that?


thank god that im not the only one that thought I had appendicitis.

Right now im going through that bout of thinking that. So can you help me get throught that?
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(psp)snake

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Posted: 01-24-06 15:17pm

cocreative wrote:
(psp) I heartily recommend trying eft to help you neutralize those negative thoughts. It seems that so many of us with anxiety have these tortured thoughts about illness. Eft - emotional freedom techniques helped me to get those thoughts out of my system ... It is stuff you can do for yourself and learn it for free from downloading the manual from their website. Www.Emofree.Com
a while back I was convinced I had cancer ... It was a muscle spasm - not a tumor -- but and even after having it diagnosed - and massaged away, I still had that lingering thought of cancer. I have been trying eft for everything so I tried it for this obsessive thinking. It worked. It might help you too.


Good luck


thanks so much and hope you feel better too
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x-looloo-x

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Posted: 01-29-06 12:33pm

Umm.. Ive diagnosed myself with:

bone cancer (ribs,leg,arm)
brain tumor
lung cancer
throat cancer
just about anykind of cancer
umm heart diesese
kidney disese
broken finger
tumor on my knee
food poisoning
heart attack

just about everything,n im only 13.Lol
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chillout

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Try to Figure It Out Yourself
Posted: 01-29-06 13:43pm

Lately I think i've started having anxiety or panic attacks, but i'm not sure. Twice this week my heart began racing out of control, like I was afraid of something but I don't know what. Along with that I had a sinking feeling. Kind of a very unworldly, lonely feeling. I was really concerned that I might be going crazy. I thought about seeing a doctor but am more worried just be put on some medication. I found a list of anxiety symptoms at www.Selftherapy.Org , which has calmed me down a bit as it's sounds quite like what I am experiencing. Has anyone every tried that program? Or have any other suggestions? Does this sound like anxiety?
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sandyallen

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Posted: 01-29-06 14:59pm

Hi there! I am not here to judge you as I know that anxiety and stress is no picnic! You need to think about being more positive, breathe, get out, relax enjoy, laugh, life is too short. If you really feel that their is something wrong then go to the Dr. And get it diagnosed. Think of these people that really have these problems. Think of these people that are in the war giving their lives for our country. You could be in a lot worse situation. I have a lot of medical situations and I got down so low for about two weeks one time that I did not ever believe that I would get back up again but I did it and I still have anxiety attacks and I do live in pain 24/7 but I have to keep myself going and when I have a bad day, I hope that the next day will get better and sometimes it does and sometimes it does not but I still have to kick myself in the butt sometimes to keep going. I realize that I will live with pain the rest of my life but I also realize that their are peole worse off than I am. We sometimes have to look at the positive things that we have instead of what we want. When I fall I have to get back up again, sometimes it is not easy. I get tired of some of these dr's that all they want to do is to write more prescriptions for you as I have cut back on some of mine and I am not saying to stop your prescriptions as their are some that are important. You just have to look at yourself in the mirror sometimes.
Good luck to you all!
No, you are not alone!
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skawt

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Posted: 01-31-06 21:47pm

Ahahah awesome topic,

i used to do this stuff all the time,

glocoma to brain tumours ahahah, im glad I got over it!

All I used to do was come home and google my current symptoms, looking back, it was funny as hell, but at that time when I was facing anxiety it sure wasnt!
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robinho

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Posted: 02-07-06 17:50pm

Cant wait til it is funny for me...
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Ltrain44

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Posted: 03-14-06 21:04pm

Oh lets see. The past 3 years I have had 2 bad anxiety periods and I am going through the 3rd one now. Here is what I thought I had.

Als
blood clots
deep vein thrombosis
pulmonary embolism
brain tumor
brain cancer
bone cancer
stomach cancer
leukimia
lung cancer
lymphoma
throat cancer
colon cancer
mainly any kind of cancer

right now I think I have bladder cancer.
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countrygirl2103

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Joined: 23 Feb 2006
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Posted: 03-15-06 17:19pm

Right now I am currently on a schizophrenia kick. I don't know why but I am very afraid of developing schizophrenia from my panic disorder because I often suffer from derealization...

Other than that,
brain tumor
anyerism (don't know how to spell)
any kind of cancer
heart disease
schizophrenia (going crazy)
ms
aids (i've been tested, even though I have only been with 2 people in my whole life)
every other terminal disease possible I think I have and I am just waiting to die.

I am only 21 years old!
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drpepper0

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Joined: 03 Aug 2005
Posts: 80

Posted: 03-15-06 19:39pm

Congestive heart failure
coronary artery disease
heart attack
lupus
asthma
bone cancer
lymphoma
impending blindness
scoliosis
multiple sclerosis
systematic scleroderma
bacterial meningitis
brain tumor
brain anureysm
blood clots
schizophrenia
aortic anureysm
colon cancer
most recently:
muscular dystrophy
thrush
throat fungus
epiglotis disfunction
connective tissue disease
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kcornmartin

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Location: Philadelphia, PA
Cure For Hypochondria???
Posted: 03-19-06 14:58pm

I am 34 years old and have never had a serious illness in my life, but I have been to the doctor and had more tests than a 75 year-old woman! I started being afraid of disease and death very early in my life. At first it started with fear of getting a non-life threatening illness (like appendicitis)but not being able to get to a hospital on-time, and progressed into fear of a terminal illness with each passing symptom. I have had a colonoscopy, multiple brain scans, kidney scan, scan of ovaries (for tumors), blood tests, std tests, aids tests, 2 mammograms, and that's just off the top of my head! All of these tests were negative and eventually the symptoms disappear (wax and wane). I know deep down that this is all related to stress and anxiety, but I still get so consumed in the symptoms I am convinced I am dying. I am a pretty happy person with a great sense of humor and lots of friends. I have tried anti-depressants and anti-anxiety meds but I can't deal with the side effects.
Does anyone know of a cure for hypochondria???? Vitamins, supplements, whatever??!!!! It makes me feel better to know there are so many out there like myself, but at this point in my life I just want to be less anxious and stop worrying my family and friends with every "disease" I am afflicted with. I have started keeping it to myself but that just makes it worse and I end up on sites like this diagnosing myself!!
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drpepper0

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Joined: 03 Aug 2005
Posts: 80

Posted: 03-19-06 15:21pm

The cure is to get right with god so that you never fear death. Only fear god. I'm working on it.
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mickey10528

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Location: connecticut

Posted: 03-22-06 03:00am

I thought I also had every disease in the book I use wrongdiagnosis
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curious1234

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Location: ny

Posted: 03-22-06 17:06pm

I really don't feel so bad now. To dp, I agree about getting right w/ god. I am a christian also and i've found when i'm in my word and close to god, the fear of death is non-existent. The key is maintaining that level of intimacy tho.

I've only recently thouight I had coronary artery disease, thanks to the internet...Not!
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