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Does anyone find themself obsessing about all the symptoms

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patty818
patty818

I'm curious if anyone absesses about thier anxiety and is constantly waiting and paying attention to every little sensation and symptom?  I have dizziness from an inner ear disorder and it drives me nuts.  I went back to my GP on monday and had a complete melt down in his office, I couldn't stop crying, he believes besides the anxiety I have depression.  But I find that all I do is watch for symptoms, if I get the least bit of dizziness or head stuff, like a falling feeling or floating, or turning my head and can feel a sensation, or get up and walk around and feel the dizziness, I have anxiety, I get mad and frustrated because I've had it for 10 months and I'm sick of it.  I've been doing meditiation everyday and trying to get my body to relax and my mind.  My thyroid meds have been off to, so things could be coming from anything.    I have an appt with a psychologist on May 27th and hoping this will help.  I have so many symptoms and I watch for each on.  HOw is it possible to have anxiety that is not caused by a disease?  I have health anxiety and all I do is look for what is causing this, and hope to find the disease before I get sicker.  But every doc i see says its anxiety disorder and I need to see the psychologist.  Is this really possible, to just have anxiety and not a disease that is causing it?  Do any on you have dizziness 24/7, that feels like your rocking or swaying and you can feel it thru your body?  I have it most days with head pressure, like air in the head, neck and shoulder tension, nausea, irritation, hot flashes that are worse, stressed al the time, worried all the time, leg aches, fears from no where.  

If anyone has any help, I would like to hear it.

THanks

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  • janette81906
    janette81906 patty818

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    I have bouts of health anxiety, it started 12yrs ago after I had my daughter, I spend months thinking about every sensation and pain and thinking I must have cancer, because obviously it must be bad to make me feel this awful. Thing is I don't even know Its anxiety until I've had all the tests to rule all these different symptoms out and the worry and panic totally takes over my life and leaves me exhausted. Sometimes I feel like I'm going crazy. I'm now due to back to my GP to ask him to check my hormones and put me on some sort of antidepressant before I do actually go crazy, as the dizziness, breathlessness and general pains are basically ruining my life. Xxx
  • elaine75058
    elaine75058 patty818

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    hi patti its me again. im going thru exactly the same thing. i wake up in a panic sweaty and nauseous. i have an inner ear problem too. i take half a xnanax but its not working. my anxiety is thru the roof at the mo. when i walk i feel disconnected which scares the hell out of me. scared ive got some kind of brain tumour its on my mind constantly its been like this for over 6 months now and its getting out of control i dont know what to do? im depressed too u didnt mention tinnitus i have it in my right ear
  • ashley53983
    ashley53983 patty818

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    I too worry about medical issues. It's quite debilitating. Like right I'm convinced I have tongue cancer because I have two sores on my tongue.
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