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TheMadApple
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RE:Introduce yourself here
(Date Posted:12/21/2008 8:27 PM)

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Re:Introduce yourself here
(Date Posted:01/03/2009 9:55 PM)

Hello,

My name is Shaylee and I'm 16 years old. I've suffered from HA my whole life. I'm getting to the point where I'd just rather die than live in fear of dying for the rest of my life - which, unfortunately, i keep convincing myself is going to happen soon. Like many others one of my main worries is cancer...and just about every other illness. It would be really nice to have someone to talk to who understands what it's like.

Shaylee
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heady
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From: Great Britain
Registered:01/12/2009
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RE:Introduce yourself here
(Date Posted:01/12/2009 9:38 AM)

Hello,
 i was looking up hydocondria up on the internet and came across this site, my life is in shambles at the moment. and i really believe it is to due with hypocondria, this morning iv spent alot of time thinking about whats wrong with me, trying to analysis why im so messed up. iv been suffering from headaches, fatigue, depressionfor a while now, and im putting it down to CJD (mad cows disease) as i have all the syptoms to it i think, i also think iv an adbominal anuerysm or a stomach ulcer that could start haemorrhaging any minute, iv pains in my legs which are due to clots. the scary thing is im a nurse, a trained RGN who came first in my year in college, shouldnt i know better.

when im at work im ok, i focus myself on my work, its when i come home and when im alone especially before i go to sleep i get all these pains and feelings and thats when i no i will die soon, i just lie there waiting to die, to be killed by this disease i have, and i wake up each morning and im still alive.

i went to my new GP last month and i described all my pains and aches to her, she didint even examined me, just asked was i depressed, i bursted out and started crying, and i think i am depressed, she put me on antidepressants but i havent started taking them yet, im scared if i start taking them they will cause my heart to race and cause my palpitations to get worse, i didnt bring up the issue of hypocondria to her, im afriad i will los my job, my reputation, instead i suffer in silence, and waiting to die from disease is gonna kill me first.

i hate this, its taking over my life
coraline
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From: Canada
Registered:03/21/2009
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RE:Introduce yourself here
(Date Posted:03/21/2009 3:07 PM)

Hello. I am happy to have found this site.  I have suffered on and off with health anxiety and panic disorder for the last 8 years.  It is very off and on but I have yet to discover what triggers it.  Usually my health anxiety follows a pattern of panic attacks.  I recently had a horrible panic attack on an airplane and have been suffering with extreme health anxiety for the past month or so.  I think I have had a brain aneurysm, ms, brain cancer, leukemia, and als all within the past few weeks.  I can honestly say this is the worst I have ever felt about it.  I think about it all day and all night.  I have also come down with a sinus infection and am on antibiotics but can't believe all my symptoms are caused by it.  It amazes me that I am a triathlete and follow an extremely healthy lifestyle, no instance of any sort of disease in my family history and I still feel like this.

I can explain every physical pain I have realistically but still can't make my brain believe these things.
Sharp pains in head: sinus infection/stress
Muscle aches: triathlon training
Eye/Jaw pain: sinus infection
fatigue: sinus infection, not sleeping

I have been to the dr three times in the last week.  She suggested antidepressants, has anyone had any success with a particular kind?  I am really starting to feel crazy.  I'm glad other people feel the same.
coraline
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From: Canada
Registered:03/21/2009
Time spent: 0 hours

RE:Introduce yourself here
(Date Posted:03/21/2009 3:08 PM)

Hello. I am happy to have found this site.  I have suffered on and off with health anxiety and panic disorder for the last 8 years.  It is very off and on but I have yet to discover what triggers it.  Usually my health anxiety follows a pattern of panic attacks.  I recently had a horrible panic attack on an airplane and have been suffering with extreme health anxiety for the past month or so.  I think I have had a brain aneurysm, ms, brain cancer, leukemia, and als all within the past few weeks.  I can honestly say this is the worst I have ever felt about it.  I think about it all day and all night.  I have also come down with a sinus infection and am on antibiotics but can't believe all my symptoms are caused by it.  It amazes me that I am a triathlete and follow an extremely healthy lifestyle, no instance of any sort of disease in my family history and I still feel like this.

I can explain every physical pain I have realistically but still can't make my brain believe these things.
Sharp pains in head: sinus infection/stress
Muscle aches: triathlon training
Eye/Jaw pain: sinus infection
fatigue: sinus infection, not sleeping

I have been to the dr three times in the last week.  She suggested antidepressants, has anyone had any success with a particular kind?  I am really starting to feel crazy.  I'm glad other people feel the same.
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Re:Introduce yourself here
(Date Posted:09/23/2009 2:47 PM)

hello  - i've been here before....i'm 34 years old mother of 6' and ever since i was 12 or so i was scared of being sick, of dying...of having all sorts of diseases.  very smartly i went on adn studied physical therapy at uni....and i remember those 4 years as terror - running around to all sort of doctors with polycystic ovaries, burst appendicitis, brain tumours, neurological diseases and G-d knows what else...

recently i've had it returned. my biggest scare every is the possitibliy of having Multiple sclerosis. i'm so scared of it its unbelievable. i went to a neurologist a few years ago and he said "no chance". but since then i was too scared to get it checked. my legs (both of them) hurt me a lot, espec. my knees. its been coming on-off for a long long time months even years.  i kkeep checking my balance reactions. so far so good, but i'm patrieifed. my speech is not great always, and to make things worst i'm now treating an MS patient 3 times a week so i see in fron to fmy eyes the results of 20 years of MS.....

my biggest worry though, is that i don't have health anxiety, but that i'm REALLY sick :-( is that common to all you guys?

Take care......me.
racinbran
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Registered:10/08/2009
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Re:Introduce yourself here
(Date Posted:10/08/2009 5:13 PM)

 Hey everyone, I'm Brandon.  I'm 24 and I've struggled with Health Anxiety for almost 2 years now.  It all started back in November of 2007 when I was at an athletic banquet for my cross country team. I was in the middle of a funny conversation with some teammates while eating and wasn't really paying that much attention to what I was eating. Well, at some point during the conversation, I believe (although, to this day, am still unsure) I may have bitten off part of the bone from a chicken breast and swallowed it.  I seemed to notice a slight discomfort in my throat, near my chest, almost immediately. So I excused myself and went to the bathroom to see if I could cough it up somehow. Well, needless to say, nothing came out, but I seemed to exacerbate the pain in my chest. I was worried that it had gotten stuck in there somehow.  It  really hurt and seemed logical for me to think something was really stuck in there. Anyway, I went to bed that night, hoping that the pain would be gone the next morning. When I woke up with the same pain I had the previous night, I knew something had to be wrong. In the week that followed, I took 2 trips to the emergency room and countless hours mulling over what it might be. X-Rays came back indicating nothing was stuck in my airway (or anywhere) and the doctors just diagnosed it as a case of costochondritis and sent me home with muscle relaxers and pain killers. But I still felt the pain in there. It was really hurting, especially if I twisted my torso in a certain way.

So anyway, that's the incident that kick-started my Health Anxiety issues. The pain from it eventually subsided (over many, many months I might add), although I can now crack the joints in my sternum as one does with their knuckles (which I believe to be a remnant of the chicken bone incident).  Ever since then, I've worried about the littlest things, and it's caused my chest to tighten and stomach to knot on many occasions.  I've worried having different kinds of cancer, brain tumors, deep vein thrombosis, acid reflux, strokes, clogged arteries (yes, even though I'm a 5'9" 140lb long distance runner), heart attacks, etc. I'm just a worry machine nowadays.

But I came to this site because I'm tired of it and want to revert back to my old way of living happy-go-lucky and care free, and ready to face danger when it is actually present, not when I think it's present. 

Thanks for your consideration,
Brandon a.k.a RacinBran
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Re:Introduce yourself here
(Date Posted:10/18/2009 11:19 AM)

Hi everyone,

I found this site while googling (probably the worst thing to do health wise) because I just had
a mammogram call back. I posted about it in that topic, so please read if you can.
I am a 41 year old female, married with 2 boys. My youngest is 9 and autistic. I think my anxiety
issues started about the time he was diagnosed at 2-1/2.
About 4 years ago I started having serious IBS issues and my regular Dr. sent me to a GI.
To my surprise he ordered a colonoscopy. That really sent my health anxiety in a spiral.
I started googling all symptoms and was convinced I had colon cancer. The test was normal and
although I still suffer from some symptoms not as bad. They flair up whenever I am under a lot
of stress. A year after that I had some gyno problems and my Dr. did a D & C. A necrotic fibroid was discovered and removed and all was well. Now I have this mammo call back thing and I am once again googling like crazy and I know I need to stop but can't. Does anyone else have that problem? Other than my overt fear of cancer for myself I also worry constantly about my son and his future. The biggest being what if I am not here to take care of him?
I have also suspected that I have fibromyalgia because I suffer from a lot of deep muscle pain and fatigue. That has been going on for years. My sister has fibro and thinks I do too, but my Dr. does not think I meet all the criteria so she
hasn't sent me to a specialist. Now with this mammo call back I am suffering a lot of pain, especially in my arm
and chest area. I know this is probably typical of anxiety but what do you folks do when that happens? I hate to
meds because they make me feel so dopey. I try to do more natural things like tea, magnesium, St. Johns Wort to
relax myself. Thanks for listening and if you see my post on the mammo thing please respond. I'm always looking
for reassurance.
Lisa

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Reply To racinbran
(Date Posted:10/21/2009 4:17 AM)

Reply to racinbran (10/08/2009 5:13 PM)

 Hey everyone, I'm Brandon.  I'm 24 and I've struggled with Health Anxiety for almost 2 years now.  It all started back in November of 2007 when I was at an athletic banquet for my cross country team. I was in the middle of a funny conversation with some teammates while eating and wasn't really paying that much attention to what I was eating. Well, at some point during the conversation, I believe (although, to this day, am still unsure) I may have bitten off part of the bone from a chicken breast and swallowed it.  I seemed to notice a slight discomfort in my throat, near my chest, almost immediately. So I excused myself and went to the bathroom to see if I could cough it up somehow. Well, needless to say, nothing came out, but I seemed to exacerbate the pain in my chest. I was worried that it had gotten stuck in there somehow.  It  really hurt and seemed logical for me to think something was really stuck in there. Anyway, I went to bed that night, hoping that the pain would be gone the next morning. When I woke up with the same pain I had the previous night, I knew something had to be wrong. In the week that followed, I took 2 trips to the emergency room and countless hours mulling over what it might be. X-Rays came back indicating nothing was stuck in my airway (or anywhere) and the doctors just diagnosed it as a case of costochondritis and sent me home with muscle relaxers and pain killers. But I still felt the pain in there. It was really hurting, especially if I twisted my torso in a certain way.

So anyway, that's the incident that kick-started my Health Anxiety issues. The pain from it eventually subsided (over many, many months I might add), although I can now crack the joints in my sternum as one does with their knuckles (which I believe to be a remnant of the chicken bone incident).  Ever since then, I've worried about the littlest things, and it's caused my chest to tighten and stomach to knot on many occasions.  I've worried having different kinds of cancer, brain tumors, deep vein thrombosis, acid reflux, strokes, clogged arteries (yes, even though I'm a 5'9" 140lb long distance runner), heart attacks, etc. I'm just a worry machine nowadays.

But I came to this site because I'm tired of it and want to revert back to my old way of living happy-go-lucky and care free, and ready to face danger when it is actually present, not when I think it's present. 

Thanks for your consideration,
Brandon a.k.a RacinBran

Brandon,

Man, I feel your pain. I'm in nearly the exact same boat as you. I'm 24, in athletic shape, active and fit, yet constantly have fears of blocked arteries, strokes, cardiac arrest etc. I'm not sure when the trigger was for me personally, but it has gradually developed from a quirky trait while in high school to a daily obsession. It definitely got worse when I was taking pre-med school classes.
About two years ago I went to the ER with a random panic attack (my first) where I thought something was seriously wrong with my heart. It too was diagnosed as chostochondritis, even though I continue to feel that chest "pressure" to this day. It is more like an indicator of stress now i.e. when I go into an interview, or enter into a period of intense health anxiety etc.
Anyways, after reading through yours and others posts, I just want to say how obsurd it seems for such seemingly, perfectly healthy individuals could possibly suffer from all these random cancers and health issues. It just shows how serious and horrible it is to have such severe health anxiety as we all seem to have.

I am so ready to kick this thing out the door too. Best of luck to you...
BEN
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