I have Super bad health anxiety and first I was convinced I had something wrong with my heart but I have had numerous blood tests, chest x-rays, ECG’s etc and all is medically fine. I got ill the week before last with a fever and achey but my temperature was not high at all, it was 35.9 which is normal. Before this I have had such physical symptoms of anxiety, where I am so dizzy and can’t focus, I get numbness etc, I experience I am not as fit as I was, I also have eye floaters sometimes. I am now so worried I have Leukaemia as my grandad had this in his later years. I am 26 and fit and healthy but just feel terrible all the time, most people say it is the anxiety. I keep looking at symptoms of leukaemia and matching how I am feeling and what I am experiencing to that. I had blood tests done 5 weeks ago and my complete blood count was normal. I had blood tests Friday as I keep getting inflammation on my right lower abdomen but haven’t had the results back yet and I am so nervous.
I'll be honest, I've been going through the same thing for a year now. Unfortunately I'm still being told it's anxiety. I thought I had cancer and was going to die last May but it's almost May again and I'm not dead yet. I don't know how much that helps but I've had chest pains, weird rashes, fevers, inflammation, trouble breathing etc for a year now and it all comes back to them saying "anxiety". It hurts and I don't want to think it's the truth but it seems so.
I went through this last year for about 9 months with anxiety and panic attacks. I thought I had cancer (because my grandma and aunt had it), i thought I had MS (cause my dad has it), I thought I was having some sort of seizures (my sister has them) I spent thousands of dollars at doctors and hospitals. Anyway, here I am over a year later and I am still living and even though I still have anxiety and panic attacks I let my fear of these things go and decided to trust the doctors and now they no longer terrify me into full blown anxiety and panic for weeks at the time.
Hey hannah, I've read your post and it's so relatable to me like it is probably to most people here, normally I don't suffer with health anxiety but when my anxiety and depression is at a high I have terrible health anxiety too, I convinced my self I had everything from heart failure to diabetes that's the truth. A month or two ago I felt dizzy like my blood sugar was low. And I panicked like mad and literally the next day when and got a diabetes test everything turned out normal like everything else has done for me too. Bloods fine chest xrays, scans, heart monitor and every thing else comes back fine. But I never believed the doctors had missed something. But after All that when my anxiety got better and I had a lid on it all I think back and I can't believe that I actually though I had all that wrong with me. But at the time no one could say any different. A little piece of advice I did my self and it worked. Carry a note pad with you every day and write down everything you think you have and list what symptoms you get and over a month or a week read back and just look at what you think you have. Hope you get sorted and get back to normal. And am sure ur results will come back fine. Do post on here and let us know how u get on with it all
Yes I get the same...if I have bad headaches I think I have tumors cause that's what my mom passed away from...so everything to me is always I have cancer...I have noticed not to Google anything because I will make myself have those symptoms