Anyone else stuck in that vicious health anxiety cycle?

I can completely sympathise with you! It’s anxiety disorder and this awful health anxiety, you deal with one symptom get the all clear and then few days later something new pops up that doesn’t go away causing us sufferers to assume the worst! I have done it all.. brain tumour, mouth, throat cancer, sepsis, tetanus, lymphoma, Hodgkin, aids, everything you can think of and now I’m on lung cancer, i am also quite young and the only 26!, and I know how it feels for it to consume your life in constant worry you have an awful disease, your not alone and never feel like you are! 

I have health anxiety too .. constantly thinking about heart attacks or strokes it's horrible I'm 23 .. my mum or dad have never had anything wrong with them in that way ... the only person that has had heart attacks in my family is my grandad but mum and dad healthy just can't get it out of my heads it's horrible... some days I will be alright but then it kicks back in after a day or too... I know what your going threw it's horrid

well, not just you or me, many many here have faced this vicious cycle of anxiety..

but one should keep the faith and definitely it is possible to come out of it..

your nick name "Live Your Best"  is so inspiring, this has given me new energy.. 

Health issues can do that. I been through cancer, lung issues and fragile bones. Each illness brings anxiety and I start out doing everything I can to make it go away. Then, I go back to being myself. 

I hate the in between fright & flight feeling. It confuses my thinking and memory. The physical feel of it is terrible too. Stomach issues, sore muscles, low energy.......

Hey there, I wanted to ask what, what came first?  You said you had a lung cancer scare, did you smoke in your teens? Do reckless things? I'm asking because i've dealt with somewhat similar issues as you, as a result of what I can only assume were bad habits society imposed upon me and I'm wondering if you have done similar things...let me elaborate.. I have been labeled by friends and family as a hypochondriac---not in good vain. When I was a teenager, I smoked cigarettes, I didn't eat properly, I was hospitalized with anorexia twice--I was taught to hate my body so I went below 70lbs.......(yeah ) and when I went to college the reckless self destruction didn't stop there. Around 2010, when I was 20 years old, I started having severe anxiety attacks--I dealt with acne and acne rashes, which I never had a big issue with before, and most of all- bloating, water retention and stomach aches as a result of my body not being able to properly metabolize and assimilate food, and stress from my daily life of classes and pressure to succeed. This went on for about 2 years. All of these symptoms led me to many different avenues to figure out how to cure whatever I had, which I was quite sure something was devastatingly off with me compared to other seemingly well functioning people. I fermented food, I ate only vegan, began exercising regularly, quit smoking for good, quit alcohol, took all sorts of herbs and made my own kombucha elixirs for my stomach. (BTW hummus and tahini sauce are great natural anti-depresasnts). And most of all, I began listening to my body and relaxing and meditating. All of this is to say, I don't really know now what helped me in particular, the food and the diet is only one small portion of what you have to do--maintaining a sense of relief and happiness is so difficult in this society- sometimes with daily stressors of living in a late capitalistic industrial era we age more than we want, we get sick, we get tired.....but this doesn't necessarily mean that you're going to get any of things you think you might get, such as cancer. And the reason I ask about your past is because, if you didn't do the terrible things that I did to my body, then that's a good sign. I still deal with anxiety today, even after I tried to find natural remedies (which believe me is not an easy thing to tackle). You're not alone in this. 

Yes...look into medication and therapy if you haven't already. Anxiety is NOT something you can always fix by yourself, it is a real disease despite what some on here say. You can actually see the difference in brain scans and there is a ton of medical evidence out there. I have been struggling for over 20 years and while there are a lot of things you can do to help you cope with your anxiety and its symptoms sometimes that is not enough. I know it wasn't in my case, Medication and therapy was the only thing that got me to be a semi-functioning person. Unfortunately I have been without both for a while now and have been stuck in this vicious cycle once again. If I could afford it I would be back at my psychiatrist in a heartbeat and back on my meds and seeing my therapist regularly once again. You need to start treating the anxiety itself, only then will you get some relief. Therapy would be a great help for you, in my opinion. Good Luck!!!