I’m still having blights of lightheadedness, almost like I’m floating and nausea that comes and goes during the day. I’m convincing myself it’s cancer of some kind even though I had an MRI of my brain in august of 2020 and I’ve had an endoscopy and ultrasound in February 2020. Logically, I’m trying to tell myself that I got so many tests done, but my mind goes straight to cancer the second I feel anything.
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There is a complaint called 'cancer phobia' The fear of cancer. So many with anxiety have it. One of our biggest problems is that we get bombarded with information about cancer that it sticks in the mind of an anxious person. We are very much over informed. I wonder if those who make up these documentaries and programmes realise what harm they can do to a person suffering from HA. How could they if they have never experienced it? You do need to believe your medical advisers. They are not hiding anything. But with HA the idea that something is wrong will always lurk in the background. Don't Google or watch medical programmes. We are so susceptible to suggestion in HA.
Now I’m really in overdrive. I had a horrible horrible headache all day yesterday but I was planning on getting the Covid booster at 4pm so I didn’t take anything. My entire head hurt… my neck, ears, everything. I took the vaccine at 4:20pm and came home and went to sleep. At around 10pm I got severely nauseous and vomited twice. I read this isn’t a side effect of the vaccine and that it would be too soon to be from the vaccine anyway. It’s brain cancer, I just know it
I am not being critical. Just an observation. Im sure i do as well.
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I am sure we do all read the replies, but the anxiety is so ingrained it is like water off a duck's back. But dripping water wears away the stone. The smallest of seeds of recovery may be sown in the mind, and small seeds can grow into big plants. Let's look at it another way. You know how old you are. That is an indisputable fact. The sun will rise in the morning, that is also a fact. That you have not got a brain tumour is also a fact. Now what's the difference and why do we believe one and not the other?
FEAR!!! The sun rising and how old you are does not fill you with fear. (Well, it shouldn't!). Facts are indisputable happenings. Illusions are not. They only become facts to us if we believe and have faith in them. Your imagined illness are not facts to the doctors and consultants that examine you because they see through the illusion to reality. Mr. Anxiety is a master illusionist. His bag of tricks is endless. Making a railway train disappear is child's play. Giving the illusion of disease to a person with HA is easier still.
We need to see through the illusion into reality.
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I get light headed frequently. It’s anxiety and also muscle tension in n the neck. I convinced myself for years I had a brain tumour that was causing it. But I’m here 11 years later
I do feel like it’s coming from my neck sometimes. However, after throwing up last night I’m now convinced it’s a brain tumor. My husband seems to think it was a side effect of the vaccine I got 6 hours prior but I’m not convinced.
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Definitely could be a vaccine symptom sickness has a funny way of showing up when your anxious too
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Anxiety is a bitch it’s like some people have a fear of butterflies knowing absolutely a butterfly can’t do anything to them the fear that they have for it makes it physically impossible to move. You have to keep telling yourself “I’m going to be OK it’s just Anxiety and it will pass”keep doing that. I mean we all know honestly it’ll be with you forever but definitely gets easier to maintain when you start believing that you are OK there’s nothing wrong with you !