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Q: Hypochondria Or Anxiety?

asked by: alligal16 on April 23rd, 2007

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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

replied on April 23rd, 2007

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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........................

bliss1234

replied on June 14th, 2007

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Re: Hypochondria Or Anxiety?

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.

DeMarie

replied on July 4th, 2007

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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.

Hollyberries

replied on July 4th, 2007

Extremely eHealthy

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) Sad

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...

DeMarie

replied on July 5th, 2007

New User

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.

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