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Hypochondria is destroying my whole life!!
It all started around 7 years ago and it's continuing without stopping. Right now I think i have eye cancer, testicular cancer, varicocele, retinal detachment... AND OH GOD A MILLION OF OTHER DISEASES!! And the worst thing is I cannot stop thinking about them. And always when I'm doing something I get this feeling like: "If you won't touch the glass you will get a really bad disease" or "if you will eat today then you will get cancer" and I'm just suffering every day. Always when I get a headache I think it's something terrible so please if someone knows what to do or if there is someone out there who has the same things as I do. My eyes are all wet cause I rub them every day to check if there is a some kind of a tumor behind them. SO PLEASE WHAT CAN I DO?????????
I have the same symptoms! I have had a fear of cancer since was about 6 years old. recently, I've recently had lower abdominal pain and bloating, and am convinced I have ovarian cancer. I'm the past, I've had a fear of breast cancer as well as a few others. I also have fears of having HIV, though I've been with my boyfriend for 3 years and get tested yearly. I don't think my family or boyfriend really understand how real this fear feels to me. I spend my nights searching health symptoms, and I feel that after I review the symptoms, I seem to get them. this has been an ongoing issue for 20 years!
I can relate to this so much. I am a hypochondriac. Severely. Right now, I am having heart failure in my head because ive had ongoing chest pain. If I have a headache, its a brain aneurysm or tumor. I will worry so much about it that I bring myself into a horrible anxiety attack. It controls my life. I am always afraid I wont wake up the next morning. many times I stay awake all night so that I don't die in my sleep. In my mind, ive had every disease in the book so far. The stress has given me stomach problems and im afraid its slowly killing me. I don't like to talk about it because everyone thinks im just a mental wreck... Im on 2 different natural meds for it, nothing helps.
I am having the same problem. I had my baby 6 weeks ago and I am convinced that I am going to die to something....I feel I have gotten something in the hospital...it is taking over my entire life. I am breast feeding so can't take anything... Am going to try to feed for a few more months then I feel I need to take something
I am 100% sure that I have eye cancer because i see those specks and the doctor said its normal but I spend so much time putting fingers around my eyes that they become all red and then I think it's the symptom of cancer and
it jsut doesn't stop.
it jsut doesn't stop.
I feel exactly the same way! I had my daughter three years ago and that's when it started to get bad. I'm up all night self diagnosing myself online. I currently think I have ms because my hands and feet tingle. I went to the doctor and she put me on aniexty meds but they made me dizzy and felt like I had ms even more. I just started taking them again so Ill see if they'll help. Of its not ms it's always something, I feel like I'm going crazy!
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But...there was a time, 13 years ago that I went thru something similar. I had just given birth to my son, and within days of being home, I guess it was post partum depression/psychosis. But I was CONVINCED, that i was dying. Of AIDS, of cancer, of something, i was SURE of it. I was sure I had given something to my baby as well. I didn't eat, lost 50 pounds, could not function. And the very real thing is, that the more I searched and searched for symptoms, I would create them. I remember relentlessly looking up symptoms of HIV and even though I had no reason to think I had it, a symptom was mouth sores. Well, within days the stress I was causing my body made me get a whole bunch of mouth sores, which only heightened my obsession. I went on like this for 6 months, before I was forced by a family member to seek therapy and I went onto Effexor, and antidepressant. Slowly but surely, I got better.
But the thing is, hypochondria is a REAL issue and something you HAVE to get help for. You will only continue to get worse, and it is no way to live my friend. Can you confide in someone? A relative, a great friend, a doctor, someone? Tell them everything. And get to a doctor and he can ease your worries about your health and point you in the right direction of therapy. Do it now, if you can. You're life is worth so much more than what you are putting yourself through.
I'll be thinking of you, please let me know how you are doing.