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Health anxiety taking over my life Since I got the flu this year, I’ve been constantly worrying about my health. I wake up in a panic every day. I am constantly worrying that I’m losing my vision or that I have MS, brain tumor, etc. I’ve gotten blood work that all came back perfect. I’m only a teenager but these worrie... | Anxiety |
Bladder cancer and heart disease I'm 26 I kno that my age doesn't mean I'm invincible to all cancers or disease
But can I have reassurance
I pee a lot sometimes like 5+ an hour
Idk. And I think have heart disease cuz I get skipped beats when I exercise so does that mean my heart cant handle stress | Anxiety |
Might take a while to get my meds, what can I do? Hello. So it’s been a while since I posted on here.
It’s been a while since I’ve been able to get my meds. A mixture of Not being able to see my doctor/ refills being denied because I need to see him for a checkup.
I have a weird work schedule and his appointments are ... | Anxiety |
anxiety over leg numbness so i've had crippling anxiety/health anxiety for 2 years now. it's been such a torture in my life and i still havent gone to see a therapist (mostly financial reasons). but anyway two nights ago my left leg started feeling restless while i was lying in bed and i didn't think much of it and wen... | Anxiety |
Inhalated AC/refrigerant chemicals Today, I was in sitting in a lounge area of a building at my university for about 10 minutes. All of a sudden, someone (who happens to be the professor of a class I'm in) walks by and asks "Does it smell like burning plastic in here to anyone else?". I took a whiff, and lo and behold,... | Anxiety |
stomach disease anxiety I had spicy chicken three days ago. The very next morning tummy ache started. Also had to go to bathroom for like three times. Took tablets from local pharmacy. I felt better by that evening.
After two days of this happening, my stomach is stiff, feels like stuffed and looks bigger now. Like ... | Anxiety |
Having trouble sleeping. I have quetiapine and I know it works for me. Tempted to take 25mg so I can sleep. When I try to close my eyes, I have so many thoughts and I’ve tried to talk aloud and tell myself to stop thinking about them but after a few minutes, there they are again in my head.
Part of me want to not tak... | Anxiety |
I'm a lot scared about my mom's lower leg pain Hi! First of all, I made a second account to talk about these personal issues, I use my personal account (which has my real name) for a lot of public things and didn't feel comfortable in sharing those personal issues there.
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My mom had breast cancer six year... | Anxiety |
Scared of brain amoeba Exactly one year ago I was in New Zealand where they have these geothermal pools which have a brain eating amoeba in them, which is why you shouldn't inhale that water. I didn't go into one of those but I did go into a normal hot tub and scraped my knee doing so. And I sat there for a minute befo... | Anxiety |
Lexapro? Anyone else take lexapro? I was just prescribed it this afternoon and made the mistake of reading the possible side effects. | Anxiety |
I thought I was crazy and alone I’ve suffered from hypercondria for years due to paranoia from almost dying when I was a baby and I thought I was completely crazy. Staying up to ungodly hours, worried about every little thing, thinking the world was foreshadowing my death, etc.
I was (still kind of am) angry and anno... | Anxiety |
My friend's depression
Every time my friend got depressed, he wouldn't talk to anyone. I was able to help him when I was close, but now he lives much further away from me. His desire not to talk to anyone started to increase in him and it took longer. At first I decided to leave him alone, but that didn't quite work. ... | Anxiety |
I'm confused, I'm not feeling good lately. Every time I want to sleep, I always feel restless | Anxiety |
Dry Skin This might be better suited for r/anxiety in general, but since my anxiety seems to be health anxiety I figured I'd start here. As a background, I've never had an anxiety/stress issue prior to September, but Labor Day weekend I had what I now know was a panic attack that sent me to the ER. Since then I've be... | Anxiety |
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what needs to be done today already, but still feeling restless | Anxiety |
DAE not only fear their next attack, but fear it will be even worse and/or their worst anxiety attack experienced ever? My intrusive thoughts and anxiety have been crazy lately and these concepts have come to mind. I’m petrified I’ll truly lose it one day and be on record as having the worst attack ever known or someth... | Anxiety |
Yay. A new thing to worry about. Tonight while taking a drink I swallowed wrong & am convinced I aspirated some into my lungs. Spent the last 15 minutes Googling & am now worried I will end up with aspiration pneumonia.
It is always something. Always. | Anxiety |
After Grandma Died i don’t know what’s happening but my grandma died a couple days ago & physical things have been hurting me. such as:
knee pain that lasted two days then went away
lower right back pain
back pain
sore abdomen
jaw pain
tightness in chest that makes it hard to breathe
also i’m constipated so ma... | Anxiety |
Throat cancer worry Hello, I felt a bit weird today and looked at the back of my throat where there are a lot of swollen bumps that are mostly red, and some look like they might have cancer sores.. I ususally have one or two of those, my throat looks like a mess most of the time, but ENT said it looks normal. But with ... | Anxiety |
For anyone struggling with fairly severe anxiety episodes - I highly recommend DBT distress tolerance skills. I recently started DBT after anxiety and depression became nearly unbearable for me, and the specific distress tolerance skills and suggestions (like hundreds of ideas about specific activities to do when feeli... | Anxiety |
Is this health anxiety? 1) checking temperature 10 times a day
2) checking blood pressure everyday
3) checking weight 10 times a day
Thinking I might have a serious disease | Anxiety |
Mama eto pera kan life e | Anxiety |
How did you overcome severe gym anxiety? Hello! I'm a gym newbie here, and I've been *really* struggling with going to the gym.
I have no excuses anymore. I've been telling myself that once I move closer to a gym, once I get a good daily routine in, once I get a job that starts later, so on and so forth... well the st... | Anxiety |
Possibly letting anxiety get to me? I am the type of poster that you will hate. I'm fully aware that I am 90% of the time just blowing everything out of the water with anxiety, it's been my MO for awhile.
I was at a bar talking to some women when we had to run my cousin back across the street to the hotel due to him g... | Anxiety |
Go to hell | Anxiety |
Trying a new way of thinking. My day normally looks something like this...
Oh man I'm dizzy. I wonder what that means. Any my left arm is weak. Is that a heart attack? Maybe a symptom of a small heart attack? Where did I get that bruse on my knee? Is that a sign of a blood clot? Should I go to the doctor again? Last ti... | Anxiety |
How do you keep your health records? I keep mine in a cabinet. And sometime it is really difficult to lookup, especially after we have children and paper documents became a mess!
I came up an idea to build my own application to help me do that. Check out this [http://lucycare.us](http://lucycare.us) . If it helps, fe... | Anxiety |
Hate when I'm not feeling good Even just feeling dizzy and exhausted with identifiable causes (took like 3 different laxatives within the same 48 hours and didn't drink a lot of water) is making me panic. I wish I could feel better. | Anxiety |
HA and a Palm Tree lead me to urgent care To preface, I just discovered this sub and WOW, I can’t believe there’s so many others who struggle with the same issues I do. I’ve struggled with HA since I was about 14 (I’m 24 now), and I go through periods of time where I’m fine, and then I’ll hit a rough couple of weeks th... | Anxiety |
I'm excited but I don't know why, there's no reason, I'm nervous, I have a stomach ache but I'm scared, I know I'm tired, this is the third time today, hah — hah :) | Anxiety |
Anyone tried exposure therapy? My therapist says that exposure therapy is one of the best ways to treat health anxiety disorder, which we're starting on Thursday. Just wondered how many of you are currently receiving treatment of any kind, and how many have tried this particular modality.
She said once we get into ... | Anxiety |
I'm nervous I don't know why. I don't feel calm | Anxiety |
I'm so nervous I feel why | Anxiety |
It's really restless since yesterday thinking about another second in class 12, preparations for SM are still a little bit, there's a lot to worry about | Anxiety |
Swollen lymph node, rash, dermatits and surprise another lymph node today What the fuck is going on with my body?
In October 2018, my perioral dermatitis flared up again after accidentally eating gluten. It was around the time of the holidays and i was stressed due to major family issues. December comes and I start to... | Anxiety |
my mum died of adult death syndrome and I’m scared it’ll happen to me too I’m 15 years old and I’ve been worrying about this pretty much every day since my mum died, I’ve had a lot of problems with high blood pressure the past 2 years and thats made me really depressed and just worried all the time, but that got better... | Anxiety |
I'm having anxiety during the daytime It seems to get worse. I live in a rural town overseas from my home country of Australia. Just some background info.
I have thoughts because there are little places to go, that I'm wasting my time and I'm usually in my room all day, thinking, watching tv or sleeping.
I have tho... | Anxiety |
Isn't it weird when you suddenly enter the stage where you can't communicate with other people.. feeling lazy + anxious, it's one thing ² | Anxiety |
Had a Panic Attack Last Night. Strange Sensation in Head. Anyone Ever Experienced Something Like it Before? Sorry for making another post so quickly after my last one. But I'm in a bad spot right now and I just need to talk about what I'm going through.
:Last night, I had a weird sensation in the left side of my head... | Anxiety |
Oh God, why is it so hard to get to know new people now, scared, worried, worried... Tremors again. I'm so afraid of myself | Anxiety |
Persistent back pain out of the blue... For the past week or so I’ve been having pain in the middle of my back, like a dull ache nothing sharp. I’m 20 years old and I don’t exercise or do any strenous activity so I’m not sure how I could have pulled anything, I’ve been up all night falling into a rabbit hole of googlin... | Anxiety |
So annoyed with myself...health anxiety resurgence Hey guys
So annoyed with myself, even though I guess it isn’t really my fault, I used to have pretty bad health anxiety a few years ago. It started to subside somewhat after I got a scan done after I felt a lump, it was just a cyst. Right around that time I was also i... | Anxiety |
DAE have an element of narcissism with their anxiety/OCD, IE "My anxiety is the worst, and no one else's anxiety is like mine or can relate to me"? I have been a sufferer of GAD and pure O OCD for years (possibly my whole life). One interesting aspect of my own anxiety is that I have developed a sort "pride" in my anx... | Anxiety |
hey please can I ask for positive or enthusiastic words? Lately I've been so anxious that it makes me think about it for a long timeðŸ˜" I want to sleep so I don't think about it, I'll open it later so I can forget it even more🥺 | Anxiety |
If you are afraid or feeling anxious, what do you do? | Anxiety |
How to chill my brain out I’ve been experiencing heath anxiety for about a month now (i have GAD but an incident about a month ago incited my anxiety to revolve around my health.) i want to get CBT but i don’t think i can rn until school finishes in about a month.
My anxiety centers mainly around strokes/anyurisms/hea... | Anxiety |
So anxious I literally just ran out of the dentists office Basically title.
A couple months ago I had a consultation to get a few teeth "deep cleaned" and two small cavities. No big deal for normal people, but I really dislike needles and put off going back.
Today I go back and they insist on doing the deep cleaning ... | Anxiety |
Sending love to the sub Someone I love dearly is going through a particularly brutal bout of HA right now and it’s so hard for me to sit back and watch him suffer while being powerless to help him. He can’t even come on this sub because there are too many triggers for him. Keep fighting the good fight my friends. You m... | Anxiety |
HA Hopelessness I have had health related anxiety issues for the past 5 months, and just when they seem to be getting better and I have a solid week, it all comes crashing down again.
At the beginning I was convinced that I was going to have a heart attack, then it was a pulmonary embolism, and now I think I have some... | Anxiety |
Im so tired It's the lymph node again. It's in the armpit again. it's connected to the skin and I know what that means. Maybe I don't but I suspect
It's been such a relief when it dissapeared after the first time but now it's back again and so everything. I didn't sleep in two days and this is the third. Just why me
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Dizziness, pressure in head, headaches, strange seizure-like episodes - brain tumor or sinus infection? Hey all. I'm making a doctor's appointment first thing in the moring but I'd like some advice on what I am experiencing in the meantime.
For a couple months I have been getting these strange episodes that I can onl... | Anxiety |
Thumb twitching? Not sure if this is anxiety but it’s been doing this for a while
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Trying to find a therapist! So, researching online has gotten me so confused. I have health anxiety from my grandmothers passing, and now every little ache or weird feeling is obviously me dying. So i need to find a therapist to help me through so I am not racking up ER bills. I see "Marriage and Family Therapist" and ... | Anxiety |
Coping mechanisms for trigger scenario I've had nightmare neighbors which my housing have ignored for years the ball is finally rolling but I'm freaking out as they are having the housing officer in question and community officer who doesn't speak up about things they said that were incorrect previously to come for thi... | Anxiety |
finished for the heart's intention to watch the series, I even thought about it. I'm worried | Anxiety |
I don't know what to do. I don't know how to do it. I don't know where I am. I don't know where I'm going. By tomorrow night, I (21 y/o UK university student) have to email my dissertation supervisor a draft of what I have written so far; the deadline is in May and he wants to give me some feedback before the upcoming ... | Anxiety |
Dry heaving I’ve been dealing with a really complex personal issue involving heartbreak/ loss of a person I deeply care about; certainly the worst pain I’ve experienced in my life thus far. As it stands, I already carry a level of anxiety with me, but with this added on to it, my body has been putting me through hell. ... | Anxiety |
Very anxious and uncomfortable after professor made us watch their personal porn video for lecture EDIT: Thanks for all the advice everyone! This situation is extremely nuanced and very complex, and I'm unable to fully convey how something like this can even happen / make it make sense without giving up specific detail... | Anxiety |
Health Anxiety, what has worked for me - Hopefully it helps you I have health anxiety and it's taken me about 3 years to. It feels good to know that I am not crazy or feel like I am dying from cancer or having a stroke or whatever else it can be. The symptoms are all over the place one month it will be numb limbs, the ... | Anxiety |
My health anxiety is spiralling I just got back from an eye check up for a new set of contact lenses and the optometrist told me my eyes are healthy and I just have a few eye freckles (they’re on the whites of my eyes and are light grey). After the appointment, KNOWING he said my eyes were fine, I went into a rabbit ho... | Anxiety |
Was doing so well until right now I started a new medication a month or so ago, and it seems to have quashed the intensity of my health anxiety. I was overjoyed about this! Finally, I had hope of living a life that wasn’t steered by hypochondria! But I’m currently having a setback.
Long story short, I’ve been under a l... | Anxiety |
Don't check today's trending subreddits I did and my own morbid curiosity wound up setting off my health anxiety. Save yourself the trouble and steer clear. | Anxiety |
Should I be worried about a possible auditory hallucination? Hi guys,
Today I was on a empty street waiting for my Uber when I heard a baby cry for about a few seconds, twice. I did not hear this sound again, and it sounded like it came from one of my houses, as some of the houses had their lights on. I did not see th... | Anxiety |
Worried about cancer Please help! My anxiety is out of control. I have a family history of colon cancer, and all the symptoms. I am seeing the gi doctor tomorrow. I've been in a panic for weeks and can't calm down. I keep imagining absolute worst-case scenarios. I'm so miserable and upset. | Anxiety |
Terrified of catching the flu after ENT visit. I've been a huge germaphobe for as long as I can remember. In the spring and summer it usually doesn't cause me to much distress, but once cold and flu season pick up, it starts to have a greater impact on my mental health and my ability to function.
Earlier today, I had... | Anxiety |
Are swollen lymph nodes always something to worry about? I sort of feel one on my right side, in my neck. But no symptoms of anything | Anxiety |
Head injury worries? I constantly worry about head injuries, because I constantly worry if a hit to my head was significant to cause a concussion.
For example, I was laying in bed on my (not very heavy) laptop, and I accidentally pushed it into my chin. It wasn't a super hard hit, it didn't hurt, but I immediately s... | Anxiety |
Elevated liver enzymes and elevated protein in blood. I’m trippin I had a comprehensive metabolic panel done to see how my potassium level was doing because of two medications I am on (yaz and spironolactone). My potassium level was fine my they found elevated liver enzymes and elevated proteins in my blood.
I’m fre... | Anxiety |
Health anxiety i've noticed that over the last year i've become super anxious when it comes mine and my loved ones health, i think it's because my husband had bells palsy early last year.
Since then anything will trigger me!! literally anything. I was picking at a mole (didnt realize) and it started bleeding and got ... | Anxiety |
Trying some anxiety research Hey everyone! I'm doing a project trying to really understand more of the perspective of people with anxiety. I am posting this on multiple subreddits to try and get the most amount of results. I would really appreciate it if you guys wouldn't mind helping me with my project, if this isn't ... | Anxiety |
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I have been blessed with the ability to freak myself right the F\*$& out whenever i think about a host of different topics... anxiety. Now most of these topics ive been able to find categories for, and address in that way, by learning about those things, bettering my ... | Anxiety |
Am i having a seizure? I have been having extreme HA for the past month but in the last week i have been having really weird symptoms. I have been waking up after 1 or 2 hours of sleep at night shaking and swaeting intensely while also being very confused and having feelings i cant explain. This lasts for about an houe... | Anxiety |
Morning Anxiety I'm so so tired of morning Anxiety. Every morning I wake up wanting to puke from being anxious. Does anyone have any experience of how to not wake up feeling like you're about to get into a fight?
Any advice would be most welcome 🙏 | Anxiety |
Rapid Heart Rate 24M, 6’ , 215 pounds
I have what I believe to be anxiety disorder. I almost always have some sort of anxiety. Sometimes I feel a little cloudy and maybe even a bit u stable on my feet. The worst is when I’ll be working; doing something minimally exhausting but my heart rate will raise to over 120 and ... | Anxiety |
Lumps and bumps I just need somewhere to let this out. I have a skin disorder called hidradenitis suppurativa (HS). It’s pretty mild for HS, and the last few years it’s gotten much better.
I have also noticed a couple of cysts. On the back of my head, my ankle, and on the batwing area of my arm.
Doctors have looked... | Anxiety |
College Student w/ Anxiety: Dating Life I first developed severe anxiety and panic disorder in my senior year of high school. I can proudly say that with perseverance, proper medication, and the help of my lovely therapist, family, and friends, I was able to complete my senior year and begin college in the fall. I’ve t... | Anxiety |
My Health Anxiety Symptoms Hi Everyone!
As someone who has been struggling with health anxiety for the last 4 years, I have found the acknowledgment of potential anxiety symptoms to be the most reassuring form of support. This is not only reassuring to me as it reminds me of all of the different ways anxiety might af... | Anxiety |
weird aching pain in left side of chest i can't tell if it's breast pain or not but there's this weird achy feeling in the left side of my chest it's not that painful but it is really annoying it was happening last night and now it's happening again should i be worried? | Anxiety |
Every night before this night, I always worry about what drama will happen tonight, my baby boy If there's no husband, this is really crazy | Anxiety |
I have health anxiety I have health anxiety and think too much and my chest races and stuff | Anxiety |
Therapy? Has anyone had any success with specific therapy or medication for health anxiety? this has ruined my life more than normal anxiety in my past. I feel as if i’m constantly waiting for something to come up and I’ll never be able to live a happy life. Just waiting for my time to be up, basically. | Anxiety |
Just a little bit of encouragement Had an itch on my back, a really deep painful itch like nothing I'd felt before, and it's been about a month. No marks or rash.
It's slowly going away!!!
I'm excited to have one of those random unexplainable things which normal people get and don't worry about!
HA sufferers - thin... | Anxiety |
Brain tumor anxiety Hey everyone, I'm new to this subreddit. I feel like recently I've been suffering from health anxiety. It suddenly came up out of nowhere. First I was convinced something was wrong with my heart, I started having lots of different symptoms and was truly convinced something was wrong. Got it all chec... | Anxiety |
Does anyone else hold off reading their messages as long as possible? Do you guys do this too? I understand that its common courtesy to reply to others quickly and instantly, but it's like whenever I get a message, I get... Idk. Scared? Anxious? Nervous to read it? I always feel like skfkglglkgkv
I mean, god knows wha... | Anxiety |
Ex-partier, now healthy but with major HA Wondering if anyone else has dealt with this!
I am now 27. When I was 18 I started a 6-year long party bender. Daily marijuana, pack of cigarettes a day, drinking 5-6 nights a week, MDMA every weekend. It was intense. I was on Zoloft at the time for my anxiety and depression d... | Anxiety |
Cross post with AskDocs -- random swelling?? Hello,
I'm a 23-year-old female, non-smoker, otherwise healthy despite an insane amount of anxiety. I've had slightly swollen lymph nodes on my neck for a while, but doctors I've seen haven't been concerned because I weigh 116 pounds and have a really thin neck -- an ENT ba... | Anxiety |
Work, life, anxiety(f20) Today is actually the day all my worries are transformed in real situations, let's start
First of all, my grandma's sister birthday, I totally forgot about . Than said that I would come, but I forgot about gift and overslept, than was to anxious to go, and called said I'm sick, than I received... | Anxiety |
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The Outcasts, for everyone, and the outcasted. Where you'll always be accepted. Welcome to The Outcasts! A new Mental Health, Support Discord Server! Our motto is The Outcasts, for everyone, and the outcasted. Where you'll always be accepted.
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We are currently a small community, but we are always looking ... | Anxiety |
Employee Assistance Programs I have ADHD, anxiety, go through cycles of depression, a mild eating disorder, a family history of suicide attempts (I am not in any danger), and a high stakes job. Recently, I have been failing to meet expectations, having concentration and memory failures due to stress. I have been refe... | Anxiety |
Have you ever been... you're honest but you're the one who's restless hh | Anxiety |
Health issue or health anxiety So before i start, let me make clear that i do have some health issue Well had, i was born with a unicuspid valve and had open heart surgery 2 years ago. Up to the surgery i was a mental wreck more than before. Now after the surgery ive been Well for the most part. I have had alot of fear... | Anxiety |
Recommendations for supplements I want to find natural supplements that calm down anxiety, I tried Lion's Mane Mushroom but it gave me terrible vertigo and I had to stop it. I've had anxiety my entire life but I've never been to a psychiatrist and I don't like the amount of side effects that anxiety meds give. My anxie... | Anxiety |
oh my god so nervous | Anxiety |
Health Anxiety? Random abdominal pain, scared of going to the doctor and potentially hearing worst case scenario I’ve had a LOT going on since Christmas. I lost my grandmother to cancer, I’ve been sick, had a panic attack, felt grief out of nowhere for the first time which included pains, random anxiety, and somewhat a... | Anxiety |
Son has weird bump on shoulder I'm waiting for new insurance to come through before I can take him to the doctor, I was hoping to be able to post a picture of it but I guess this sub won't let me. My 8yr old has what looks like a blood blister on his shoulder. It's a red bubble, not purple like a blood blister you get ... | Anxiety |
Love Yourself Good morning Reddit users! I wanted to pass some words or love and support.
We are all here because of our health anxiety whether we have it now, or we had it in the past and we’re just trying to support others.
I wanted to tell everyone...
Breathe.
Why is that so important? Because when we are all tr... | Anxiety |
Lexapro 5mg + upcoming wedding I just started on lexapro 5mg 3 days ago. I have severe GAD and OCD, and it’s causing me extreme distress. I also have my wedding on April 30th. I’m afraid it will make me a zombie, as well as cause sexual performance issues, and I don’t want to be emotionless on my wedding day, or unabl... | Anxiety |
How many of you got a CT scan done on 15 plus years ago? Where was the scan done and did you develop any cancer/tumor? I am asking because there are many articles on the possible link with ct scanners and cancer. Should I worry about it? I have had two abdominal ct scans done and two head CTs. | Anxiety |
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