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Last night I struggled to sleep due to numerous hypochondriac reasons, different aches and sorts but I controlled myself and I woke up the next morning (this morning) feeling okay.

So then in the afternoon, a coworker asked me if I was okay and that I seemed pale (now there’s an explanation for that, we were in a room with yellowish-white lighting) Now, for the past few hours I’ve been in total distress. I have been having new symptoms, such as a pressure in the temples and pain in the lower abdomen as I breathe... of course I was avoiding Dr. Google but I couldn’t anymore, the anxiety was too high and so, I checked google and of course abdominal pain is a sign of heart attack...

I had been handling my hypochondria so well this last week, covincing myself I was okay and soothing the incoming attacks up until today.

It’s just so stressful but also alarming and scary, that it’s becoming too much. It’s even starting to impact my work.
 
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HypochondriasisMaximus said:
Last night I struggled to sleep due to numerous hypochondriac reasons, different aches and sorts but I controlled myself and I woke up the next morning (this morning) feeling okay.

So then in the afternoon, a coworker asked me if I was okay and that I seemed pale (now there’s an explanation for that, we were in a room with yellowish-white lighting) Now, for the past few hours I’ve been in total distress. I have been having new symptoms, such as a pressure in the temples and pain in the lower abdomen as I breathe... of course I was avoiding Dr. Google but I couldn’t anymore, the anxiety was too high and so, I checked google and of course abdominal pain is a sign of heart attack...

I had been handling my hypochondria so well this last week, covincing myself I was okay and soothing the incoming attacks up until today.

It’s just so stressful but also alarming and scary, that it’s becoming too much. It’s even starting to impact my work.
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I know what im about to say can be distressing and it might make you either more worried or it might help and im willing to take that risk cause with health anxiety if your convinced and you can find a way to manifest symptoms you probably will. But if you were having a major heart attack you would know within seconds it would be debilitating. A minor heart attack you would be able to survive to drive to the hospital . either way peopel only die 10 percent of the time from heart attacks 2% of people under the age of 50 have heart attacks and that two percent is always preexisting health problems or obesity . so the chances really aren't high to have a heart attack and there is always exceptions to every rule but like a said thats always a preexisting health problem at least in that 2 % i can tell you from experince with all of this Knowlage i still have panic attacks that i think are heart attacks anxiety is a beast and it will keep convincing you you have a problem untell you figure out how to deal with it or combat it . i unfortunately haven't been coping well lately I even feel a pain in my chest as we speak but im just ignoring it not cause i dont think its worth ignoring but because im not a dr and I cant keep doing this to myself im nto a dr and i cant predict if soemthing is going to happen.
 
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Shreddykrugaer said:
I know what im about to say can be distressing and it might make you either more worried or it might help and im willing to take that risk cause with health anxiety if your convinced and you can find a way to manifest symptoms you probably will. But if you were having a major heart attack you would know within seconds it would be debilitating. A minor heart attack you would be able to survive to drive to the hospital . either way peopel only die 10 percent of the time from heart attacks 2% of people under the age of 50 have heart attacks and that two percent is always preexisting health problems or obesity . so the chances really aren't high to have a heart attack and there is always exceptions to every rule but like a said thats always a preexisting health problem at least in that 2 % i can tell you from experince with all of this Knowlage i still have panic attacks that i think are heart attacks anxiety is a beast and it will keep convincing you you have a problem untell you figure out how to deal with it or combat it . i unfortunately haven't been coping well lately I even feel a pain in my chest as we speak but im just ignoring it not cause i dont think its worth ignoring but because im not a dr and I cant keep doing this to myself im nto a dr and i cant predict if soemthing is going to happen.
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I understand, and thanks for that. I know I don’t have heart attacks because
A. I’m 17 years old
B. I lead a healthy life.
C. While I have palpitations and irregular heartbeats, my pediatrician (yes as a 17 y/o I still go because he’s the person I trust most and has my file since I was as old as 1 years old) has reassured me that I am in good condition.

Even with these facts, anxiety overtakes me and tries to convince myself that I am having or bound to have a heart attack or a stroke.

I wouldn’t wish Hypochondria on my enemies.
 
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HypochondriasisMaximus said:
I understand, and thanks for that. I know I don’t have heart attacks because
A. I’m 17 years old
B. I lead a healthy life.
C. While I have palpitations and irregular heartbeats, my pediatrician (yes as a 17 y/o I still go because he’s the person I trust most and has my file since I was as old as 1 years old) has reassured me that I am in good condition.

Even with these facts, anxiety overtakes me and tries to convince myself that I am having or bound to have a heart attack or a stroke.

I wouldn’t wish Hypochondria on my enemies.
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I feel that I am healthy and hve always been active and i knwo im not either and even today i felt like i was possible having a minor heart attack it sucks having ti deal with that and its probably even worse on your kind that your 17 im sorry you have to deal with that at such a young age. Everyone deals woth a arrhythmia at some point in their life and their usually not life threatening . so theres that I didnt know that tell the other day i was wondering what the difference was between life threatning and none life threatening and apprently its only blood flow that actually matters in a arrhythmia situation . and of course heart rate . but it usually resolves on its own witch is another thing i didnt know the body was capable of . its crazy how your mind convinces you and makes you paranoid but a healthy strong body is capable of insane healing and problem fixing abilities and to be young and health you shouldnt have to worry but look at us both worried about the same thing almost every day . it honestly annoys me when i look at it like that .
 
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