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
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 29 Sep 2005 Posts: 9 Location: GA
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
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 07 Oct 2005 Posts: 7
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
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 12 Oct 2005 Posts: 3 Location: MI
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
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 07 Oct 2005 Posts: 7
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
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 12 Oct 2005 Posts: 3 Location: MI
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
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 22 Jan 2006 Posts: 10 Location: nj
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
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 22 Jan 2006 Posts: 10 Location: nj
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
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 27 Jan 2006 Posts: 11 Location: england
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
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 29 Jan 2006 Posts: 1
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
Extremely EHEALTHy
Joined: 02 Feb 2004 Posts: 4580
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
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 31 Jan 2006 Posts: 5
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
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 05 Feb 2006 Posts: 3
Posted: 02-07-06 17:50pm
Cant wait til it is funny for me...
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Ltrain44
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 13 Mar 2006 Posts: 3
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
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 23 Feb 2006 Posts: 7
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.
Joined: 19 Mar 2006 Posts: 1 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
Experienced User , Rather EHEALTHy
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
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 18 Feb 2006 Posts: 9 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
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 21 Mar 2006 Posts: 7 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!