Depression
diabetes
brain cancer
stomach cancer
gastric ulcers
anorexia
gallbladder problems
stds (even before I ever had sex)
malignant melanoma (which one of my crazy
doctors convinced me I had, so that was
more him than me!)
ibs
infertility!
ovarian cysts
sciatica
ruptured spleen (which was just a week ago
and it was swollen because I had an
infection)
i have changed a lot…most of these
“self diagnoses” took place a few
years ago in high school. The only
anxiety I have now is a fear of vomiting
which is pretty common so i’ve read.
I'm a .Radiology major now so educating
myself on the human body has really helped
me move past this! It has also made me
more aware of things in the body too to
help maybe explain things...It's bitter
sweet I guess!!
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asyf25
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 27 Mar 2006 Posts: 6
Oh, Thank God I Found This Forum Posted: 03-27-06 01:50am
Wow, this is totally where i'm at in my
life right now. I'm currently obsessed
with huntington's disease. My leg aches.
Isn't that a sign of oncoming huntingtons?
I have muscle twitches. I'm forgetful
and absent-minded. I go to google and
wrongdiagnosis and webmd and all that
...
I called my mom once and was like, "mom!!
Has anyone in the family ever had
huntington's disease!?!" and she basically
laughed at the question. Which, I
appreciate the ridiculousness of it now,
but damn if it wasn't the most horrifying
thing at the time I was asking it ... To
tell the truth, i'm not completely
convinced i'm not dying of huntington's
disease.
Before that, anyuerism, heart attack and
heart failure, kidney failure, appedicitis
multiple times ... I'm sure there were
others that I can't recall, which is, of
course, a sign of my oncoming
brain-wasting illness.
I'm 23 and new here. I hope you all dont
mind my venting.
-alex :(
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mulberrywine
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 22 Mar 2006 Posts: 10 Location: Midwest
Posted: 03-27-06 08:32am
Vent away!! Hopefully, some day, you will
get to look back on this and chuckle about
it.
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asyf25
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 27 Mar 2006 Posts: 6
Posted: 03-29-06 05:46am
I'm a writer by trade, and, actually, i'm
thinking fairly seriously of writing a
story about wrestling with this anxiety
stuff ... This is just awful, it really
is ...
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girly2006
Experienced User , Rather EHEALTHy
Joined: 12 Mar 2006 Posts: 66
Posted: 03-29-06 21:52pm
Aids
schizophrenia
mad cow disease
brain tumor
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hypohealth
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 09 May 2006 Posts: 5
Wow... Posted: 05-09-06 11:38am
I am so glad I am not alone in this!
In the past few years, I think I have:
hiv/aids
cancer (well, I did have melanoma but has
high cure rate)
dvt/embolism
heart disease (arrythmia)
sepsis
meningitis
but if we take a look at the whole
picture, the odds of me dying is very slim
- only 177 out of 100,000 at my age and
the leading cause is accidents and hiv.
Cancer and heart disease come after that
and they're extremely rare.
it's clear: you have very little to worry
when you're a young adult and you should
spend time more about preventing accidents
and being healthy than worrying about
health problems.
I have been tested many times and I was
never found anything wrong with it. I did
have uti that went away with simple
antibiotics and high consumption of
cranberry/blueberry.
I did have several premature heart beats
but everything I read about them, they're
"benign in absense of heart disease." but
it sure sucks.
The shooting aches are clearly caused by
my excessive anxiety. I hope so!
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backhome22
Experienced User , Rather EHEALTHy
Joined: 18 Nov 2005 Posts: 195 Location: MN
Posted: 05-12-06 17:54pm
I think i've been health-concious all my
life, possibly a hypochondriac, but the
most recent from the past couple of years
(i'm 20):
breast cancer at 18
aneurysm (several times)
heart attack
stroke
deep vein thrombosis
pulmonary embolism
appendicitis
meningitis
sciatica
herniated disc
short qt interval (after seeing it on the
news)
i had no anxiety for a few months, but now
it's back with fear of a fatal heart
condition due to all the palpitations i've
been having lately.
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klazzarus
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 03 Aug 2006 Posts: 8
Social Anxiety Posted: 08-04-06 07:14am
Many times people tend to get extremely
shy, fearful or overtly self conscious,
while interacting in a variety of social
situations. These symptoms are so common
in their daily life, which they tend to
develop severe inferiority complex as a
result of many anxious situations. The
scenarios are so obvious: people facing
interviews, a boy proposing his fist date
to his girl friend...
Http://
neteroa.Free.Fr/health/anxiety/social-anxi
ety.Php
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grandads lil sammy
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 19 Feb 2006 Posts: 14
Posted: 08-17-06 02:59am
For me so far it has been:
anafalatic shock (yes I do know how stupid
that sounds lol)
heart condition
lung cancer
brain turmer
blood deficancys
paralasys (yes I know how stupid that one
spunds too lol)
epelepsi
diabeties
i could go on and on lol
now I try not to look at symptoms and
stuff cause thats when it starts lol if I
look at symptoms of something I convince
myself I have just that lol
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popprincess
Experienced User , Rather EHEALTHy
Joined: 13 Nov 2005 Posts: 51
Posted: 08-22-06 03:55am
I have panicked I have so many diseases
and conditions, these are the ones I can
remember oiff the top of my head:
ms
brain tumour
skin cancer
breast cancer
alopecia
gum disease
going blind
meningitus
basically every time I get the slightest
symptom, I think its somehting deadly!
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coffeegrl
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 22 Feb 2007 Posts: 32 Location: Ontario,Canada
Posted: 02-26-07 17:49pm
Let me see
Skin Cancer (father died from it)
Brain cancer
Brain Tumor (had subdural hemotoma of the
brain after falling off a bike)
Brain Abcess(when I had an abcess tooth)
Chlamydia and/or the clap(still awaiting
results for that)
Bladder Cancer
Thought my leg would have to be amputated
after I had water on the knee)
AIDS
Colon Cancer
G.E.R.D
forgot to add lung cancer and heart
attacks(thought one may be comming on)
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jake7772000
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 26 Feb 2007 Posts: 3
Just Thought I Would Share a Comment Posted: 02-26-07 18:37pm
Atlast I am not alone!!!!!!! I constantly
feel like I am dying of some sort of
disease. I can have just been to the
doctor and gotten checked for my annual
womanly exam and even when test results
come back and are negative I still think I
have something such as cervical or ovarian
cancer, aids, or an std. Other things I
have freaked out about having......hmmm
lets see here:
Throat cancer
Kidney failure
Epilepsy
Blood clot in leg and brain
Heart condition
the list goes on and on..........soo glad
I am not alone anymore. I think the hard
part is soo many conditions now adays have
many alike symptoms which leads you to
think its something its not. Also yes web
MD really freaks you out and gets you
thinkin your dyin!!!!!
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stacya1
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 31 Jul 2008 Posts: 1
Posted: 07-31-08 21:02pm
Hypochondria is a horrible disease and the
internet makes it so much worse!
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steinumstein34
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 10 Aug 2008 Posts: 14
Posted: 08-10-08 09:49am
I am glad I am not alone, I am an
Hypochondriac, I watch too many medical
shows:
Brain tumour(mum died of it)
malignant melonoma
stroke
heart defects (Arrythmia,etc.)
asthma
appendicitis
menigetis (sorry about spelling)
bowel cancer
DVT (deep vein thromboses)
bladder stones
Toxic shock symdrome
food poisoning
stomach ulcer
gallstones
jaudice
I think thats about it
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scarlett55
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 21 Jun 2008 Posts: 3
Posted: 08-16-08 23:30pm
stacya1
wrote:
Hypochondria is a horrible
disease and the internet makes it so much
worse!
Ain't that the truth. WebMD symptom
checker is the devil!
Right now I'm obsessed about aortic
aneurysms because I have a very strong
pulse I can feel in my stomach and it
freaks me out. Lately it's all about
stomach problems. My diet hasn't changed
but I'm feeling bloated and just plain
"blah" around that area and the anxiety
just makes it worse so I'm constantly
trying to talk myself out of the belief
that it's an aortic aneurysm...and
failing.
Other "diseases" I've convinced myself
I've had at one time or another include:
Brain tumor
Brain aneurysm
MS
Stomach ulcers
Numerous types of cancer
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problemsandme
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 27 Aug 2008 Posts: 2
sometimes i think im alone Posted: 08-27-08 06:18am
im the same as most of use,
heart problems
all types of cancer
brain tumor
blocked artiries
lung cancer
blood problems
urine problems
prostate
and the list goes on ,no matter how many
tests i do i dont get back what i think it
could be,great doctor i could make
hey???????????.
and boy can that make you sick ,what about
when your waiting for your results so
nervous and depressed and only to find
that the results are clear,but still thats
not good enough well i say*-*-* that crap
i want another opinion,when does it end
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VictoriaGB
Supporter
Joined: 25 Apr 2008 Posts: 217 Location: Wales, UK
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Posted: 09-03-08 15:06pm
stacya1
wrote:
Hypochondria is a horrible
disease and the internet makes it so much
worse!
I was about to post and ask, how many of
those who have posted in this thread could
have said the same 'before' the internet?
Self diagnosing from the internet is an
ever growing problem for doctors, I really
don't envy them. Unfortunately, if a
doctor thinks for one second that's what
you've been doing, you may as well leave
at that point! I made the mistake of
quoting Google in my GP office once...
I used to do the same, Google and Google
looking desperately for an answer. And if
I found an answer I didn't like, I'd carry
on looking for a better one(!). The
internet provides you with mounds of
information right at your fingertips, some
of it fact, some of it claptrap. It's so
easy. When you're fed up of having no life
and your GP doesn't seem to be listeninng,
you grow increasingly inpatient, and
anything seems worth considering. It also
makes you feel 100 times worse when your
doctor tells you there's 'nothing wrong'
and you feel the need to take matters into
your own hands. It's a combination of a
lot of factors that makes Google a shining
beacon of hope (and a hunny pot for
hypochondriacs).
Many people Google health information, it
doesn't make you a hypochondriac (at least that's
what I keep telling myself). Though self
diagnosing can be very dangerous, so a
little common sense can go a long way.
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ml323
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 08 Sep 2008 Posts: 3
Posted: 09-08-08 22:55pm
21 years old
in the last 3 months i have thought i
have ( and this just suddenly started
happening)
ALS
MS
brain tumor
stroke
depression
i read almost a whole med book and thought
i have symptoms of half the illnesses in
the damb book.
am i going crazy? or is the trouble
swallowing(lump in throat feeling,
sometimes almost hard to talk), thinking
im loosing use of my etremities, sore
neck, headaches and burning eyes,
dizzyness, fatigue, tiredness, weakness,
panik attacks with seriouse tremmors, cold
hands and feet, sometimes hot flashes. If
anybody knows anything significant that
can help me out please tell me.
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VictoriaGB
Supporter
Joined: 25 Apr 2008 Posts: 217 Location: Wales, UK
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Posted: 09-09-08 00:21am
ml323
wrote:
If anybody knows anything
significant that can help me out please
tell me.
(at least that's
what I keep telling myself). Though self
diagnosing can be very dangerous, so a
little common sense can go a long way.