So what’s your current scare?

[bigjetplane6]

Who’s going through a HA episode?
And what’s your current fear?
Let’s all vent.

 

[bin_tenn]

I think my health anxiety has been rather quiet lately, overall. I'm not constantly wondering if something is wrong, even when it comes to heart related stuff (which is my biggest / go to fear). Sure, it crosses my mind now and then, but I've not genuinely worried about it in a while.

Thoughts (and anxiety) of death still crop up from time to time. I'll be posting about it shortly. But basically, I often wake up with my first thought of the day being about death. Sometimes an intense fear. I reckon it must be affecting my dreams, although I don't remember dreams whatsoever. So weird.

 

[Nikola]

I am in the middle of panic episode actually.´ I have been struggling with lower leg pain almost for a month. I thought it was some bone related issue since I feel it mostly along my shin bone. But than I convinced myself that it is some venous disease so I made an appointment with angiologist and I was told that the earliest date of possible examination is on the end of April... But I became scared that I it could be some ischemic condition or DVT so I kept checking my leg constantly. The pain almost disappeared for a few days but than I felt it again so I googled and find a private angiologist and I paid for examination ( it was pretty expensive). He told me that I do not have any chronic vein disease but one veins exactly where I feel pain even to touch was probably partially damaged after phlebitis. So I googled again since I do stand or walk at my work too much and anything like that. Of course the Google kindly told me that it can be caused by some tumorours
conditions near the vein so long story short I checked every possible information about bone cancer... I can not sleep, I can not eat, I can not focus on my work. I called couple of orthopedists but again the earliest possible date is at the end of the next month. So again I am going to pay for the examination myself tomorrow because I can' t deal with it anymore. I made a recapitulation for myself and I found out that this is 6th disease "I have had in the last 12 months". I think I suffer form HA since my childhood but I have never had so bad year

 

[Oldwoods]

I’m currently battling an HA episode. I’m experiencing face tingling and burning sensations and am convinced that I have a serious neurological problem even though my GP tells me that I do not. I think the endless lockdown days don’t help and I know that my anxiety is no doubt the cause but , as my therapist tells me, our anxious brains don’t work logically. I’m expecting this to last for a while and then slowly go away as this is what usually happens.

 

[Nikola]

I’m currently battling an HA episode. I’m experiencing face tingling and burning sensations and am convinced that I have a serious neurological problem even though my GP tells me that I do not. I think the endless lockdown days don’t help and I know that my anxiety is no doubt the cause but , as my therapist tells me, our anxious brains don’t work logically. I’m expecting this to last for a while and then slowly go away as this is what usually happens.

Hello, I know that feeling. I went to urgent one time because I felt tingling sensation in all body. I did not feel my face and my head felt like it was frozen or something. Than I stopped feeling my legs and my hands started to shake and I could not control it. They gave me CT and nothing was there, also neurologist told me that nothing is wrong. I have been told that I had tetany attack. Since than it happens to me sometimes but when I know what it is it is easier to cope with it. Before that I would never believe that this kind of disease can make such horrible symptoms. I think it is caused by my health anxiety as I am stressed all the time it resulted into this state. Sometimes I just work or watch TV and suddenly I can' t feel my face or move with my mouth, I have tremor in my hands and legs, my pulse is raisen and so on. .. My bf is also having panic attack and he feel that kind of symptoms that you do.

 

[Oldwoods]

Hello, I know that feeling. I went to urgent one time because I felt tingling sensation in all body. I did not feel my face and my head felt like it was frozen or something. Than I stopped feeling my legs and my hands started to shake and I could not control it. They gave me CT and nothing was there, also neurologist told me that nothing is wrong. I have been told that I had tetany attack. Since than it happens to me sometimes but when I know what it is it is easier to cope with it. Before that I would never believe that this kind of disease can make such horrible symptoms. I think it is caused by my health anxiety as I am stressed all the time it resulted into this state. Sometimes I just work or watch TV and suddenly I can' t feel my face or move with my mouth, I have tremor in my hands and legs, my pulse is raisen and so on. .. My bf is also having panic attack and he feel that kind of symptoms that you do.

Weirdly I take comfort from hearing that other people are having the same thing. I know it’s horrible for all of us but I do believe that if I’m not the only one then it leads me to think that this is indeed anxiety and not some nasty disease. Typically since I posted I’ve not experienced any face tingling - the mind is a strange thing.

 

[Belizz]

Yeah I have, you know what it is already prolly gonna visit dr soon about it.
After I have the corona antibody test this week.

Mostly waking up with anxiety symptoms but morning anxiety is very common if you have an anxiety disorder.
I have been going through chills a lot lately but I assume it's hormonal.
Other than my current scare I don't have fears going on. I usually stick to one and have bodily sensations related to it.

 

[Ms.Honey]

I have everything all of you mentioned (haha!)
Seriously. Fear of death upon waking, shin bone pain, tingling in my face and all over...

My current fear is neurological. I haven’t pinpointed what illness exactly, I refuse to let myself Google, and part of me does know it’s “just anxiety” but I’m just generalizing it as a brain tumour. I also have this heart fear in the back of my head all the time. I’ve had a bad couple of weeks with HA but now I seem to be coming out of it.. this always happens, in a cycle, so I’m happy to be starting to feel relief, but i also know it’ll be back soon.

 

[JD_Blue]

Its an embarrassing thing I had once before but just happened again tonight where when wiping I get a lot of blood on the TP. Its all red and its from the anus itself where I either have a lump that Im concerned about or its a hemorrhoid, happened a month or two ago then didnt happen again until tonight but freaks me out

 

[4bready]

Cancer has always been my biggest fear. So, 13 days ago I ate some food felt fine and that evening I had awful gas, woke up next morning I had "hot" gas, bloated and fear. I took a probiotic and actually felt brain fog and any. Throughout the week I continued to have bad gas, bloating, very soft stool, pains that were random in stomach. Stomach grumbles a lot and I feel a "nervous" stomach. Two days ago I felt constipated and had hard stool and then yesterday I had bad diarrhea in morning and night. I feel scared and walk around scared. I have had stomach issues before but never this long. I also have this mothball taste in mouth, its really weird. So of course, I am convinced I have bowel, stomach, colon, or kidney cancer...

 

[kammie72]

breast cancer. i wish i wouldn't worry until i had a reason to. trying to take my friends advice about not giving negative thoughts power and not speaking bad things into existence. i have a mammogram next week and i feel like i'm walking towards a guillotine.

Its an embarrassing thing I had once before but just happened again tonight where when wiping I get a lot of blood on the TP. Its all red and its from the anus itself where I either have a lump that Im concerned about or its a hemorrhoid, happened a month or two ago then didnt happen again until tonight but freaks me out

this exact thing happened today. bright red. i changed my toilet paper!

 

[Ggirlangel93]

My whole life feels like one big health anxiety episode lol. Health anxiety is def my biggest problem. Social anxiety coming in second. My biggest fear has always been death and having a serious disease. Every symptom leads me to believe i have something wrong physically. Reading through this thread is comforting in a way though because we all go through similar experiences and worries. Its like we can all relate to each other. No one in my life really understands anxiety or how i feel because they don't have it

 

[Gale]

My biggest fear is that I will get a fatal disease like MS or something along those lines. I also suffer from. burning and tingling sensations, fatigue, headaches and dizziness which I have been told is anxiety. I am having a hard time accepting this because symptoms come and go. They stay for which seems like an eternity and then leave. And you never know when they will return. Too many test to count..... All negative. Wish there was a magic pill.

 

[Grace360]

Biggest fear, well. Most of my fears tend to be rooted in neurological issues or heart and lung issues. But less specifically a fear I have about just dropping dead. From anything having to do with those organs really. Aneurysm, pulmonary embolism, brain hemorrhaging, those kind if things. Mostly having fun and being content and then that stops because I overthink everything I feel. Tingling in my arms and legs, weakness there too. I correlate that to me thinking to not have too much fun. If I do, something bad will happen.

 

[Givethanks82]

Something neurological like MS. Having muscle twitching/jerks, numbness/tingling, lightheaded, headache.

 

[Oldwoods]

Something neurological like MS. Having muscle twitching/jerks, numbness/tingling, lightheaded, headache.

I am having the the exact same symptoms at the moment. I previously had them two years ago and saw a neurologist who told me I was fine. Anxiety. Symptoms stopped (or more likely morphed into something else - I can’t recall) So although these are distressing I expect them to gradually stop so that I can move onto my next scare. Hopefully your symptoms will also fade, in my experience it can take some time.

 

[Walking Circles]

Right now I'm worried about some colon issues (my most realistic fear honestly), and of course my constant fear, dementia.

 

[Strelets]

Rabies. It's been a recurrent thing. I'm gonna make a thread on it for advice while I wait for my therapist.

 

[Bobnnat]

My biggest fear is that I will get a fatal disease like MS or something along those lines. I also suffer from. burning and tingling sensations, fatigue, headaches and dizziness which I have been told is anxiety. I am having a hard time accepting this because symptoms come and go. They stay for which seems like an eternity and then leave. And you never know when they will return. Too many test to count..... All negative. Wish there was a magic pill.

At your age, MS is practically a zero possibility. You’d be in the journals. After age 60, very rare especially in women.

 

[Gale]

At your age, MS is practically a zero possibility. You’d be in the journals. After age 60, very rare especially in women.

Hi Bob..... You are probably right.... but I do know someone who was diagnosed at the age of 64. She lived into her 80's but was in a wheelchair for a quite a few years. It's such a mystery disease. Hope they find a cure for all of these neurological diseases soon.