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Convinced myself I have a brain tumor

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MrR1318
MrR1318

Hi guys , 

So I’m a 22 male and I basically 100% convinced myself that I have a brain tumor . I’ve been diagnosed with health anxiety for almost a year now but I am convinced I have a brain tumor and at this point I feel like there’s no turning back. I’ve been having this weird pressure/pain sensation in this one spot on the top left side of my head and it’s never in any other spots but that one spot. The past week I’ve recently been getting these migraines as well and when I speak i’ll Just feel the pressure. Now the headache hasn’t been excruciating and I hear with a tumor there pretty bad headaches you get and there bad in the morning which there not for me so I try to tell myself that to put my mind sort of at ease but it’s that spot on my head that really gets me nervous. I also took medicine for my headache the other day and that didn’t help. Then on top of that I’ve also been having weird pins nd needles sensations on my face and arms and legs so that makes me think the worse as well. Last thing is I also been having some ear issues on my left side as well with bad congestion. I went to the ENT and he didn’t see any infection and gave me antibiotics but i have another appointment with him in 3 weeks and if things aren’t better I think he might do a CT scan (which I’m terrified cause I’m so nervous to get bad news) Im convinced it’s a tumor on my brain and I don’t know how to think otherwise at this point. I see a therapist for my anxiety so at this point idk if it’s anxiety or what but im pretty sure it’s not cause even when my anxiety isn’t to bad I still feel the head pressure. Sorry for the long post. 

If someone cause please give me there thoughts rolleyes 

Thanks 

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  • Lukeywrong
    Lukeywrong MrR1318

    Posted

    Hey Mate, I know exactly how you feel I have convinced myself I have a brain tumour as well over the last 12 months! I have been putting off the CT scan for the last 8 months as I'm too scared to get bad news! I have the same pressure in my head only on the left side as well! Have you had any other issues like bad eyes? any issues with speaking? I sometimes have trouble but I think it's the anxiety from over-thinking? I'm the same my headache is pretty good first thing of the morning and I feel better laying down and when I'm not at work??? any issues with your neck? I go to a chiro and when  I do I feel 100x better for about 3 days. 

  • LILLYB
    LILLYB MrR1318

    Posted

    Hi,

    You cannot control your brain, you can control some things but not reflex or the subconscious. Although you say you feel calm at times, your subconscious continues.

    I was convinced I had a brain tumour, but it turned out it was a cyst on my petit gland. Now, I was so scared of finding out the worst, but all that did was delay treatment, not for the cyst, but for the lump I found in my boob. I was told it was a cyst a few years before, yet it was cancer growing on the cyst, I ended up having it removed, but then more surgery as it spread, so a mastectomy, then more surgery to remove infection as they wouldn't believe I had. So through my rear of the unknown, it cost me, now I have to deal with it.

    It's been a whole year and no one has checked the cyst in my brain, I'm going to push to be rechecked.

    The brain can be an amazing thing, but it can also be our down fall.

    If you think about it, we create our own fear, we convince our selves we have some thing, fear of the unknown, going in to a dark room, but if we can build strength and convince our selves we will get through it one way or another. I nearly lost my life twice, in resuscitation, but it's made me stronger, I'm living each day as if it was my last. You can run and be in fear, but where will that get you? Or you can convince your self, what ever is going to happen, you can get through it one way or an other any way. Look back on the things you have feared, your still here right? Because you got through it. Anxiety does a lot to the body, but if you are right, then running, your fear will come true. So try to think positive, to get through. Xx

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