Hi everyone, I’ve had health anxiety for roughly 5 years, it all seemed to be under control with the help of sertraline until recently, this time it has hit me hard, ongoing physical symptoms, feeling exhausted and literally feeling like I’m going crazy. Headaches being the main worry at the minute (brain tumour worries) I’ve been to the doctors who said I’m showing no proper symptoms of a brain tumour, but that hasn’t reassured me in the slightest, how do they know without looking in my head?! I’ve even been for an eye test to see if they pick up anything unusual behind my eyes, which they didn’t.
I feel like I can’t concentrate or get my words out, is this just anxiety or a brain tumour causing my symptoms? The doctor did blood tests also to give me reassurance (I feared blood cancer was causing my symptoms at first) and all was fine apart from vitamin D deficiency so now I’m obsessing over a brain tumour. Can anyone help me I’m really struggling
Hi emma I too suffer with this I Google every sympton going then I've got everything,my anxiety is through the roof heart racing everyday especially early morning which means I hardly sleep I've had this for 2 months now it's starting to get me down,so ur not alone and I think we over think things try not to worry I'm trying to distract myself just know it's just the anxiety that's making us think like this x x x
Hiya thankyou for replying! I’m the same with google, I self diagnose all the time and make myself feel petrified, how can anxiety make all these physical symptoms appear? It’s the worst thing I’ve ever had to deal with, hope you feel better soon, are you on any medication? I’ve recently doubled mine 4 days ago as advised by the doctors so unsure whether the side effects are causing heightened anxiety whilst they settle, I keep telling myself this anyway xx
