hypocondriacs....READ THIS!

Nutsy · Post by **Nutsy** » Mon Jun 04, 2007 12:07 pm

Originally posted by Karson: Karson, I wanted to say that I know just how you feel with the dizziness, mine started about 2 mo agao and it comes and goes. WOW, someone has the exact same symptoms. How have you gotten over it?
Nutsy
Hello...I'm always worried about my health and my symptoms of anxiety. Every anxiety symptom I get I used to think I was dying or the doctors MUST be missing something. I had severe dizziness to the point to where I would feel like I was going to pass out alot with my anxiety. This caused me to be scared all the time and it was a terrible cycle for me. I constantly thought I was dying because I was dizzy all the time and felt so faint all the time. I didn't believe anxiety could cause me to feel this way so often. I worried about my health non stop. I have a fear that one day antibiotics wont help me because Ive taken them alot for several different things. Medical stuff is alot of my anxiety. Hospitals, sickness, dying it all makes me uncomfortable . I try to talk to myself as positively as I can to help get through this when I get worried about myself. Just like Niecy, I take my temp alot too because when I get real anxious I feel real hot and think I have a temp. Anxiety alone is enough to make you feel sick or think you are sick. This is why positive self talk is so important. We have to practice and learn how to get ourself through our fears. Why should we spend a lifetime worrying about something we can not change. We can't change the fact we are sick and so on. What we can change is our outlook on it and how we learn to cope with it. Instead we should take all this negative (worrying) energy and place in into something more positive, like practicing new skills and trying to put our real fears in perspective. I know its much easier said then done, because I am also still working on this. I do have my share of fall backs, but day by day we get through and with more practice and more time, it will get easier and easier. Until then we just have to keep practicing

Nutsy · Post by **Nutsy** » Mon Jun 04, 2007 12:13 pm

Karson,
I can relate to a couple of your symptoms. I also get dizzie. It started about 6 weeks ago and it comes and goes. Just prior to getting these I read an article in a magazine that said these are the top signs of having a heart attack next thing you know, yes I too am having a heart attack. I was in the past able to talk myself out of these but lately it is a real challenge. Anybody have any real good ideas, with the exception of giving up reading!

windycity37 · Post by **windycity37** » Mon Jun 04, 2007 12:50 pm

Oh wow... Love all these posts. And Carolyn yours cracked me up. I love it (just my lung cancer acting up today). Not making light of your loss on that of course with your Father but for you to realize it was anxiety is such an resolvement for many of us to hear.
Oh I have had about every disease under the sun since the anxiety hit, some I'm sure dont' even have names. LOL My symptoms have been both typical and rare , and I was and still am at times caught up in the body trap. I finally go over the "running to take my temp with the thermometer thing", during bad times that was the first thing I would run for ... And one thing I did learn. anxiety can raise the body temp. belive it or not I am living proof of that. I sort of did a case study on myself (crazy huh?). when i'm anxious my temp will be anywhere from 99.0 to 99.7. when i do relaxation it comes down to 98.2.. amazing huh? excess adrenaline running rampant I guess. Being in the body trap of symptoms and worrying about every little ache, pain, cut, scratch, mole, freckle, twing, twang, you name it. Its not a good way to live. I am thankful for the most part to be beyond that now...
Not sure I made any sense here or even helped by posting... I just wanted to put my 2 cents in on this subject since I have been in the same situation..
Hugs and Peace..
Jeff

Sporadic · Post by **Sporadic** » Mon Jun 04, 2007 1:38 pm

mine seems to be a direct result of my physical symptoms. when i feel great, i never worry about cancer or disease. its when i have a stomach ache, that i think its cancer. i started with brain tumors, got a few MRI's. i then moved down my body to lung cancer, lymphoma, lukemia. then, i skipped my stomach, and went to, the, privates....... *cough* and i was obsessed with STD's, AIDs in particular. i think after that, it went to more rare illnesses. jumped back up to my thyroid, got into mental conditions, think i might have slipped a lil more lung cancer in there, and now for the past 3 years, its been strictly my stomach. headaches don't do much for my anxiety, i don't obsess about anything except my stomach. its not exactly my stomach, its more, when i get diareha, which i get more often than i think i should, i think its something worse. food poisoning, cancer sometimes, blockage, apendix, spleen about to explode, something needing attention immediately. i have become scared of many foods, many restaurants, i disect everything i eat and stay away from things, even things that at one point i loved eating, because they might make me get sick. thats my big anxiety kick right now. eating, throwing up, diareah, stomach aches. thats all i worry about.

Font38 · Post by **Font38** » Fri Jun 08, 2007 9:34 pm

I can relate so a lot of what's being said here. I've had diarrhea plenty of times. I used to worry about it sometimes and wonder what was going on. That was up until I got the Attacking Anxiety & Depression program and learned about my anxiety causing Irritable Bowl Syndrome. When I learned about that connection I noticed that it did seem to happen more around times I was anxious. But then there were always some times when I wasn't so anxious and I'd have diarrhea. I worried about it then sometimes.

I've never gone to the emergency room as a result of my anxiety worry about my health though. Being pretty much dependent someone would've had to take me, and also there was the worry of what if I go and then it's nothing so everyone will think I'm a hypochondriac or wierdo or something.

On a regular day if I worry about something it's usually just some odd ache or pain that happens for no discernible reason on occasion. And then sometimes I'd be like, oh great somethings wrong in there. Somethings gonna stop working or rupture or something.

The Attacking Anxiety & Depression program is helping though and it's nice to know that there are many other people going through this. It's nice to know I'm not alone, that I'm not the only person with these problems.

MuzikGirlSarah · Post by **MuzikGirlSarah** » Tue Jun 19, 2007 4:13 pm

I now feel better about myself reading this post knowing that I'm not the only one out there who thinks and feels this way. I'm really bad about over-reacting when it comes to new pains I've never experienced before. I'd be sitting at work and get this weird headache and automatically think, "Oh my gosh I'm have a stroke!" Or, my hand will go numb and tingly and I'll think, "What if I have a tumor causing my hand to go numb?" Which this I found out is really Carpal Tunnel, I've played the piano for over 13 years and type on the computer all day long at work....Who's hands wouldn't go numb???!!! LOL!
Blessings,
Sarah from OK

4202 · Post by **4202** » Fri Aug 03, 2007 7:14 am

Oh god, I have turned into a major hypocondriac (if I spelled that right) I have a lot of cancer on my father's side of the family (he had it when he was 30!) So every bump is cancer and I will die. Then I got thrown off a horse and messed up my back and was afraid that something broke and was punturing a major organ or somehting and I was going to die! Now my latest worry is that since I has LASIK in Nov. 2006 someday I am going to go blind because of it, even though my eyes are fine and healed great.
NinjaFrodo.....I also read Deepak Chopra.

Bronagh Dornan · Post by **Bronagh Dornan** » Sat Aug 18, 2007 10:45 am

i know how you all feel i have suffered palpatations for 3 years now im 24 and they scare the hell out me! Been to a&e hundreds of times same answer anxiety - but im not anxious!! it mostly happens when i go to bed to sleep i feel as if my heart stops altogether, i jump up and try to catch my breaththen i get a fast heartbeat after that which lasts about 5 mins. Other times my heart is just thumping really hard and sometimes fast IM SO SCARED THAT IM GOING TO DIE!!! to top it all of i read that if you suffer palpatations there is more of a chance for you to suffer a stroke!! Now ive got a sore head at the left hand side!! PLEASE HELP IM GOING MAD WITH WORRY ANYONE SUFFER THESE PALPATATIONS?

kitty4 · Post by **kitty4** » Sun Aug 19, 2007 12:28 pm

Originally posted by Bronagh Dornan:
i know how you all feel i have suffered palpatations for 3 years now im 24 and they scare the hell out me! Been to a&e hundreds of times same answer anxiety - but im not anxious!! it mostly happens when i go to bed to sleep i feel as if my heart stops altogether, i jump up and try to catch my breaththen i get a fast heartbeat after that which lasts about 5 mins. Other times my heart is just thumping really hard and sometimes fast IM SO SCARED THAT IM GOING TO DIE!!! to top it all of i read that if you suffer palpatations there is more of a chance for you to suffer a stroke!! Now ive got a sore head at the left hand side!! PLEASE HELP IM GOING MAD WITH WORRY ANYONE SUFFER THESE PALPATATIONS?

Hi-
This is my first time posting because I have just started the program. I completely understand how you are feeling. I had a really bad episode the other night with my heart. I was up all night because it was thumping really hard, and I convinced myself I was having a heart attack. Well, I lived through it and I know it was just my anxiety. All I was thinking about was my heart, which gave me a bad panic attack. I am hopeful that the program will help me conquer this. You are not alone. I am having the same feelings. It does make me feel like I'm going crazy sometimes! I listened to the relaxtion CDs and that seemed to help a little. I know it will take some time to change my thought patterns, though. I'm pretty sure that my worrying and negative thoughts are what is making my heart pound so hard.

Scarlett545 · Post by **Scarlett545** » Thu Sep 13, 2007 7:41 pm

There are so many symptoms and feelings I get in my body, it is ridiculous. And I think I have every disease on the planet, or if I hear about some disease, I think I have it. The things that bother me the most is breathing, my neck, and my head. I always obsess that I have a brain tumor, or that I will have a brain aneurysm, or a stroke. I also can't swallow and get a lump in my throat and can't breath. I think I have allergies so that makes the breathing worse. It feels like someone is strangling me and my muscles twitch in my neck. I keep telling myself all this is anxiety, but I can't get myself to believe it. Also, I have trouble believing that my allergies is causing my trouble breathing. I always say, "I don't have allergies" cause my allergies are dry, I don't get runny nose, ect but mostly a nasal drip and I can't breathe from my nose. I also get the rubberband on my temples feelings or this weird bubbling or current twitch in my head that scares me. And my eyes have been twitching a lot lately and I get blurry vision a lot. I am always online looking up symptoms and can't seem to accept that it's all just anxiety