Joined: 23 Apr 2007 Posts: 5 Location: North Carolina
Hypochondria Or Anxiety? Posted: 04-23-07 12:41pm
I've been having dealing with hypochondria
for three months. I had problems with it
when I was 13 and didn't have any problems
with it for awhile until now at age 18.
I've been having problems with it four
almost four months now. I get theese
problems from my grandfather who
experienced hypochondria his whole life by
worrying that he's sick all the time. I
know I'm a little bit different from him
because he smoked for 40 years and I don't
smoke. For the past four months I think
that I have had up to more than ten
diseases when I start to notice that
something hurts so I do research on the
symptoms and it leads to theese diseases.
Here is a list of the following diseases
that I had been doing research on in the
past four months: stomach cancer, hiatul
hernia, bone cancer, osteosarcoma, Ewings
sarcoma, leukemia, appendicitus, lymphoma,
anemia, enlarged spleen, brain tumors, and
lately a brain aneurysm. I have not seen a
doctor in a long time and I feel like I
want to than it makes me think that I'm
gonna hear bad news. Just thinking about
the diseases distracts me all the time
from the things I love. For example I'm
doing the things I love and than it hits
me about the latest disease and than I
stop what I'm doing and do research on it
and than I sit and cry imagining hearing
bad news from the doctor. My family has
had it everytime I complain and everytime
they say I look fine it sort of annoys me.
I cry sometimes because I think I'm gonna
die. I usually don't get enough sleep
because this fear is keeping me up. My
life is pretty good right now and I don't
want it to end at 18 years old. I don't
want this to take over my life anymore.
Please reply if you have had any problems
like this or some advice. I appreciate it.
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Fairy*Godmother
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Voice of Experience Posted: 04-23-07 12:54pm
I for one can honestly say, if you'd had a
cerebral (brain anuerysm, you would know
it..........I had one 8 years ago.I had a
crainiotomy, and have a titanium clip up
there holding the artery together.... My
Grandmother died from a brain anuerysm, 12
years ago, she did not make it to hte
hospital in time and hers ruptured. I only
had a leaker! As for cancer, I had
malignant melanoma. Most of this crap you
believe you have is in your head. Go see a
physican and have him check you over, do a
blood work up and tell him the areas (if
there are any) that you are genuinely
concerned about. You have got to stop
thinking oyu ahve something wrong with
you.....life is paassing oyu by and you
can not get it back. TIME is presious,
please live and make every day you can the
best you can. Until you have been really
close to death, you can't appreciate whats
around you. Concentrate on things you can
do to make yourself and others
happy........................
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bliss1234
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 28 Apr 2007 Posts: 2
Re: Hypochondria Or Anxiety? Posted: 06-14-07 12:43pm
i WORRY all the time about being ill ALL
THE TIME ABOUT A BRAIN TUMOUR. everyday it
has ruined my whole life i get headaches
similar to ice pick headaches everyday so
it has caused me to get anxiety over a
brain tumour i go to the doctors all the
time its rediculas and NO. NOBODY BELEIVES
ME. its really horrible and that way i
feel i just wanna die. so now i have a
councillar. its so horrible i am actually
crying now i just dont know what to do now
i get dizziness all the time. but i have
had ocd since i was 7 years old im now 13
and i dont know what is happeneing to me.
i used to love going shopping but now i
wont go incase i pass out or have a fit.
i was hit on the head a few mounths ago
and thats when i started 2 get the
headaches now ive had them ever since. i
even demanded a blood test and that was
normal but i just cant stop thinking about
a brain tumour.
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DeMarie
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Joined: 20 Jun 2007 Posts: 24 Location: Australia
Posted: 07-04-07 23:05pm
Sounds asactly like me at the moment.
for the past few months I have thought I
had countless diseases and I am still
worrying, all though My dr says I am fine,
its anxiety.
I've thought I have had brain tumors,
sinus cancer, bone cancer or something
else because i had to have a nuclear bone
scan, and even now parkinsons disease
because my hands have been shaky and my
fingers twitch etc etc..
but with the whole shaky hands thing I
noticed it come out the same day I got
results from my sinus scan wich was
nothing wrong.
I sit there and i cry and i constantly
read up symptoms on the net and argh, its
just horrible, and ofcourse I think my
family have had just about enough, well
more so my mum, my dad said he understands
because he went through the asact same
thing.
Its so horrible thinking you ahve some
disease and I actually read on a really
good website its an anxiety symptom.
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Hollyberries
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Posted: 07-04-07 23:48pm
I suffered with exactly what you guys are
talking about for over 2 years. It started
when i had a one night stand, and i slept
with a guy, and it was unprotected, i know
i know.. I have NEVER done it again. But
after i slept with this guy i stareted to
get sick. I was watching a tv show one
night after what had happened and i seen a
show on HIV, and AIDS. I said OMG those
are the symptoms i have! I was scared to
death. Then i started reading online about
STD's in general, and all of a sudden i
had all those, and my mind played tricks
on me. I guess if you think about it so
much, you can give yourself those
symptoms, and really not have anything.
That went on for over 2 years. It went
from HIV, AIDS, to brain anyerisms (sp)
cancer of all sorts
of places...Just about everything
possible. That's why i was scared to death
to get pregnant. I was scared to take the
HIV, and sypholis (sp) i suck at spelling
BTW lol..
I was ruining my life. Day by day i would
be just like you. I would go off and enjoy
life, and then i would get a pain, or a
symptom, and i would get a panic attack,
and i would have to go home, and sit. It
would go away, but would always come back.
I was finally put on meds for panic
attacks, that did help a lot. But soon the
free ones i got from the doc ran out, and
i could not afford to get them on my own,
and i was back to square one again. It's a
horrible feeling. I have been panic free
since i got pregnant, and had all my test
for STDs done, and i feel a lot better.
But for the days i missed with my family,
friends, and my daughter. Not to mention
the days i missed at work cause i could
not handle myself...
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DeMarie
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 20 Jun 2007 Posts: 24 Location: Australia
Posted: 07-05-07 00:14am
I agree, you read symptoms and you can
make yourself get them.
I did alot of reading on HIV and it would
say things like Red,Purple,Brown spots on
skin or in mouth,
I looked in my mouth and saw some spots, I
freaked out (it was just from eating hard
bickies)
and I decided to go have the HIV/HEP test
and the day I went and had it done, i
lifted my sleeve up and there was a
cluster of red spots on my arm.. and I
absolutely freake dout, I had convinced
myself I had HIV.
even though I dont!
I just hope I stop the whole disease thing
soon.. its horrible.
cancer of all sorts
of places...Just about everything
possible. That's why i was scared to death
to get pregnant. I was scared to take the
HIV, and sypholis (sp) i suck at spelling
BTW lol..
