Life is so hard with health anxiety. Spend every day every minute thinking I’m just about to die. Then it gets to Saturday and I’ll try and go out with friends which results in me drinking alcohol. Temporarily, for a few hours I’m relieved of my symptoms and can enjoy a good time with my friends . Back to being my old self again but then of course you wake up with a hangover and you are back to square one again. Struggling all day Sunday then wake up for work Monday and start thinking you’re going to die again. They’ve finally said it’s starting to affect my performance at work. I find it hard to concentrate on anything other than my internal body trying to see what is going on at all times. Please I just want this to end. Please.
omg!! you sound Exactly like me!!! I feel you on every word you said. Ive had health anxiety for years but recently just realized that, thats what it is and that Im not dying. EVERY single moment of the day I obsess of me dying from all of my physical symptoms. Im in constant pain… and when that pain finally goes away, another one starts. Im very surprised I still have a job because I shouldn’t… lol. I ALSO drink alcohol to relieve my symptoms.. and like you said, for those few hours… I finally feel like I can breath! but short lived, then wake up feeling worse!! what physical symptoms do you suffer from??
google heart attack symptoms its all of them lol
i can relate to everything you said. the only time i feel good is when i drink and then the hangovers are brutal.
lol… yup me too!!! yea I usually wake up in the middle of the night with a racing heart after drinking, and its all down hill from there. I actually went into Afib 4 months ago, I believe it was caused by hoilday heart syndrome. By excessive binge drinking. by the time I got to the hospital I was fine… but didn’t feel fine. ever since then Im soo scared to drink but sucks cuz thats my outlet.
im excaty the same i have a new symptoms every week when i get to the bottom of one symptom another starts and i think im dying and i cannot think of anything else 
I feel like I could have written this post! I Google symptoms, which always comes up with the worse possible conclusion and convince myself that I have got that illness, then when test results come back normal, I convince myself that they have missed something. It’s a never ending battle, and the physical symptoms of anxiety are horrendous (usually mimicking the illness that you are convinced that you have)! I have suffered for health anxiety for about 7 years
I was exactly like you. I attended a CBT course for Health Anxiety and it really helped. It actually stopped me from looking up every ache and pain on Google. There are some days where I still panic but they are now few and far between. I know exactly what you mean about the alcohol thing it does make you forget for a few hours. Where abouts do you live x
So all day i get like muscle spasms over my body, then get the odd chest pain and sometimes my breathing is very out of whack, its been two years and i havent died so everything points to anxiety but its hard to accept
mine have really focused around my heart, rarely get any other symptoms anymore, but tbh everytime i do get a symptoms i link it to heart. Leg pain? blood flow not properly from heart, headache? must be a stroke or aneurism coming. its draining!!!
i dont really google anymore, i dont need to. i have recited every page of it so far anyway concerning heart issues, photographic memory of it.
I dont ever panic really - i just live in constant pain all day long, worrying about evry little pain, they are pains that make me go arghhhhh they just catch my attention and make me feel bad - i live in london, what about you?