Please help

[nh_user_1083502]

First off I suffer from very severe health anxiety. With that being said, my wife and family are not taking me very serious with anything anymore.

So why I’m posting is within the past 3 weeks I have lost about 10 pounds. I was working out for the last year 6 days a week until I recently hurt my knee. So the last 3 weeks I have not worked out and have eaten terrible. Yet I have dropped 8-10 pounds during this timeframe.

My wife says that I have lost all my muscle from not working out and that’s why I weigh less . I have also been very stressed and anxious for the past 3 weeks with me knee issue.

Bottom line is, my fear is cancer. I have had some mild night sweats lately but so has my wife so it could be humidity here.

I had a CBC about a month ago that was good and a chest CT scan in May that was also good.

I don’t know what to think. I had a major panic attack today thinking that it could be cancer.

If anyone could shed any advice , expiriences, I could really use it now.  I’m terrified and can’t function

 

[nh_user_17344]

Hello friend,

I also am a chronic health anxiety sufferer.

Re weight loss: Muscle as you know is very heavy so the likelyhood is that if you have stopped a six days a week training schedule due to injury your weight loss is due to muscle wastage.

Last year I had chronic anxiety and dropped 10 kilos and was not overweight to start with plus I also had random night sweats..

Had all usual tests at hospital, all good.

I'm back up to a normal weight and sweats have ceased now.

Try to stop worrying and take my experience as a benchmark

All the best

[nh_user_1207077]

Hi there sorry you are feeling the way you are. I have severe health anxiety myself and I can assure you it’s not cancer. I had the cancer fear myself with lymph pain, awful headaches, tingling. I took every blood test I possibly could and it all came back clear. If your test came back fear you are healthy and fine! Hope this helps.