Going out of my mind!

[Jess]

I’ve never posted on anything like this before so I don’t really know what to expect. I’ve suffered from health anxiety for as long as I can remember and just recently have been put on setraline to help. I’ve not really give them chance to work as it’s only been a work, has anyone got this medication and has it helped? I’m going out if my mind over my mouth I am obsessed! Every time I have a spare minute I’ve got a torch looking around and I’ve convinced myself I’ve got some form of oral cancer. I gave a lot of lumps at the back and sides of my toungue and I am actually obsessed with googling every second trying to figure what it is. I am a smoker and had these lumps for around a year ( when I noticed them) but can not take my mind of it. My doctor said my throat and mouth look normal but I feel like it’s something more. I even ask to look in my friends family’s mouth and there’s don’t look like mine. I can’t get over it it’s driving me insane

 

[Oakiebarbell]

Im right there with you right now, take a look at my post, what your saying are all very classic signs of hypochondria, googling, obsessing over it, checking other people........i to have something going on with my tongue right now which has me in panic mode, but im trying to remain calm and reasonable, which is very hard to do as you know!

 

[Concernedgal]

I’ve never posted on anything like this before so I don’t really know what to expect. I’ve suffered from health anxiety for as long as I can remember and just recently have been put on setraline to help. I’ve not really give them chance to work as it’s only been a work, has anyone got this medication and has it helped? I’m going out if my mind over my mouth I am obsessed! Every time I have a spare minute I’ve got a torch looking around and I’ve convinced myself I’ve got some form of oral cancer. I gave a lot of lumps at the back and sides of my toungue and I am actually obsessed with googling every second trying to figure what it is. I am a smoker and had these lumps for around a year ( when I noticed them) but can not take my mind of it. My doctor said my throat and mouth look normal but I feel like it’s something more. I even ask to look in my friends family’s mouth and there’s don’t look like mine. I can’t get over it it’s driving me insane

Let me put your mind at ease.
Oral cancer consists of open sores. But, if you need more assurance.
Try to go see a.dentist.
They specialize in the field.

 

[janemariesayed]

I’ve suffered from health anxiety for as long as I can remember and just recently have been put on setraline to help. I’ve not really give them chance to work as it’s only been a work, has anyone got this medication and has it helped?

My doctor put me on Sertraline and I hated it. It gave me the shakes which scared the life out of me. I couldn't keep still for one minute. If it wasn't my legs shaking it was my hands and my body felt awful. I was embarrassed in front of people that I couldn't sit without my legs bobbing up and down 300 times a minute. Then I learned that I couldn't drink grapefruit juice with it either. I love grapefruit juice so that really peeved me. I took it haphazardly and in the end, I opened up and told my doctor. He put me on Prozac then and that is much better with hardly any side effects. At least not so physically bad anyway.

 

[Jess]

Im right there with you right now, take a look at my post, what your saying are all very classic signs of hypochondria, googling, obsessing over it, checking other people........i to have something going on with my tongue right now which has me in panic mode, but im trying to remain calm and reasonable, which is very hard to do as you know!

So hard!! Yeah I’m obsessed and I get so panicky and upset over it! I’ve got the dentist next week for the first time in 9 years and I’m in panic mode. I’ve had obsessions with other parts of my body but got over them, the lumps on my toungue seem to be the worst and I can’t get over it. Hopefully the dentist will put me at ease next week

 

[Steven]

Hey Jess. I am a long time anxiety sufferer as well. I was on sertraline when I was younger, went off of it for a few years, and recently got back on it at age 22 as my anxiety had gotten pretty bad over the past year or so. I do think that it helps with severe anxiety but it definitely is not going to 100% cure it for you or anything like that. One tip that I actually read from someone on this forum a while back for hypocondriacs was to try and only check your body once a day. Pick a designated time like when you get out of the shower in the morning or before bed and examine your body and physical symptoms then. Outside of that, try to go the rest of the day without checking yourself. That helped me a lot and I can say I’ve made big strides and now go several day or even weeks without a health fear. I wish you the best of luck.