hypochondria

Hello everyone, I am new here. I developed an anxiety disorder just a few months ago and it's been pretty hard. Since the anxiety has started, I've also been experiencing pain that I never used to have, so I assume it's symptoms from the anxiety. I've looked into it and I'm pretty convinced I...

Hi fellow hypochondriacs. I've been dealing with health anxiety for 8 months now and in the space of 8 months I have wrongfully diagnosed myself with HIV, Lymphoma, Kidney cancer and throat cancer. My latest struggle has been with testicular cancer. I have been to 3 different urologists in the...

I’ve had these problems since I was 12 I am now 15. My mum has the exact same problems I(probably worse) but is a lot more comfortable with it than me. I cannot speak to her bout it because she just disregards it everytime. My family is riddled with disease. My dad, nan and grandad have Crohn’s...

Hi, so I’ve had OCD/hypochondria for a while but all of the sudden it attached onto something new, asbestos. We moved into a 1950 built house 2 years ago and are slowly working on it ourselves. Well before we moved in we torn up our bathroom floor which is directly across a 2 foot hall from my...

So I had acid reflux also know as GERD for a while now and It never use to bother me but, recently my anxiety seemed to make the symptoms of acid reflux more intense. Like for example a GERD flair up gives you extreme heartburn, nausea, dysphasia, and bloody stools also when this happens Its...

So on May 26th 2018, I was bit by a 1 year old Male German Shepherd on the foot and it hurt pretty bad. He punctured my foot in two spots. I washed it right away and went to hospital the next day. Doctor said it was infected and gave me antibiotics. After 7 days the swelling and redness went...

Hi, The last few weeks of my life have been hell. I’ve always been a worrier especially about my health but recently my anxiety has shot through the roof. Over the last 3 weeks I’ve been convinced I have MS, bowel cancer, a brain tumour, kidney cancer, stroke, amongst other things. Each time I...

Hey everyone, this is my first time writing on a forum and I’m hoping to get a little bit of help! I suffer from severe emetophobia (the fear of vomiting) and because of that, hypochondria. A few months back I was hospitalized because of appendicitis. Because it was mild (I didn’t even throw up...

Hello everyone, I've been struggling with health anxiety for years but this is the first time I've ever actually joined a forum to talk about it. 2015 was a terrible year for me. I began experiencing some weird symptoms in early February 2015 but I ignored them and chocked them up to ovulation...

hi, I’m new here but thought this might help me a bit with my health anxiety. I’ve had anxiety my whole life and only recently did I start experiencing health anxiety. It has been so debilitating and time consuming and horrible and I’m trying my best to stay strong through it although I’ve...

Hello everyone, I have been battling with hypochondria since last summer when I was convinced I had a tumour in my stomach. I took various tests at the doctors and they were proved negative but since then I am in constant worries about my health. I just want to know I'm not in this alone. I...

Hello! I've never actually posted in a forum before so here we go- I was diagnosed with Health Anxiety about a year ago when I was put in the hospital 3 times for debilitating pain, and it went so far that I even had a colonoscopy. I am currently a senior at the University of Nebraska at Kearney...

Hey all, I'm a 19-year-old female who has been suffering from panic attacks and general anxiety since I was about 15 years old. When I was a freshman in high school, I had a night where I had way too much caffeine and sugar and had my first ever panic attack. I was shaking, dizzy, my heart was...

Hi I'm 18 and worry like crazy about my blood pressure I am quite healthy and active , but have always struggled very bad with health anxiety I went to the ER for a hurt leg and it was 170 over 90 and I just about lost it at other times it is totally normal. it is very irritating worrying about...

So I found this forum because I’m in a tough spot and need a logical answer but not too logical from someone who doesn’t understand anxiety if you know what I’m saying lol. So I’ll give a little bit of a back story on me. I’m 19, I’ve had a little bit of social anxiety my whole life but nothing...

Hi, I’ve never posted on here before but this is tearing me apart. I have a persistent sore throat which has come back, and along with it I have a cut on my gum by one of my back teeth. It’s a little sore and bleeds when I brush it of course. Just a week or so ago, I watched a clip from the...

I just joined today heyy I suffer from health anxiety im 17 yrs old. Okay last night my friends thought it would be funny to do the biggest prank ever... they were acting like it was the hospital calling me bc I “have aids” this put my anxiety and panick thru the roof ! I keep getting flashbacks...

Hi there. Let me start by saying that I am fully aware that anxiety can cause all sorts of symptoms. I've been dealing with anxiety for close to 10 years. For the most part, I am able to control it. But whenever a symptom comes along, it sends me through a downward spiral. It started with...

I know I have hypochondria. I am constantly worried about illness physical and or mental. List of diseases in past years that I thought I had; pyromania, GI issues, depression, bipolar disease, insomnia, carpal tunnel (I have currently something like it though), etc. Too many to say. What is the...

I have these episodes where I do excessive research on a mental illness and think I have one even if I have little to no symptoms. My last episode was a trip: I started taking vitamins due to the constant fatigue caused by my Depression and it made me very hyperactive but I still believed I was...