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richard69411
richard69411

Good Evening 

26 year old male here working as an occupational therapist. 

Have a question relating to health anxiety, has anyone else experience when reading up on there physical symptoms and reading related symptoms to diseases ect they start to physically experience them also?. 

My physical symptoms are.. 

Pins and needles occasionally in hands and  feet daily. 

Tingling limbs this also includes hands and feet. 

Floaters in both eyes. 

Full body twitching and jerking throughout the day. 

Digestive problem such as excess gas, bloating stomach noises. 

Muscle tension and pain. 

Headaches 

Sharp pain in middle of chest happens throughout the day. 

Heart palpitations, rapid heartbeat where I can feel my pulse constantly in my hands, neck, arms, back of head. 

Docters are pointing to anxiety, had full blood count came back normal. And MRI Head and Neck.

Been offered antidepressants although I don't feel anxious or depressed I do feel constantly edge. 

And feel that I might of develop health anxiety due to the symptoms im experiencing. Thinking I have got MS, ALD, Eye cancer, brain tumour, or rare digestive disease...

I have now started to become fixated on my moles on my body constantly thinking they are changing or develping new ones. I'm starting to feel insane..

I am enrolling in counselling with my first session starting on Wednesday evening to expore and to give rationale towards thought process. 

Thank you for reading commets would be greatly appreciated. 

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  • brodi90804
    brodi90804 richard69411

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    I have all the same symptoms... I'm not 17 and I already have really bad anxiety and I am a self diagnosed hypo/cybercondriac. I've been in and out of the doctors office so much the past month. Already got 5 prescriptions I'm taking daily. Hope you get better.
  • Justin9259
    Justin9259 richard69411

    Posted

    This is very late but... I have the exact same symptoms. Had a scare and after that got heart palps, thought it was a sign of heart attack. Then started feeling foggy out of it. Then felt weak and tired all the time. Got everything checked. Nothing. Started to get dizziness/vertigo and worsened when I thought about it. Randomly got ice pick headaches. Thought it was a stroke. It went away and never came back. But everything else was supposedly from anxiety. Hard to believe. Hen I noticed large lymph nodes in neck. Doc said they were fine. Not too long ago I started getting the floaters. As well as random pressure that would come and go on side of head. Thought it was an aneurism or tumor. Now I have a freckle that I never noticed before and worried. It's amazing what long term anxiety can do to u. Glad there's people out there with like symptoms. I started Zoloft a month ago and is helping. You get to a point where you think someone wants u dead. It's like your world is crashing. There has to be a serious problem. How could there not be. You can convince yourself of anything as you can tell. Just have to figure out how to convince yourself your ok.
  • Mitchrom
    Mitchrom richard69411

    Posted

    Do you have vision problems ?
    • caroline46516
      caroline46516 Mitchrom

      Posted

      Yes/no had them tested a year ago and needed reading glasses which I only need when reading small text but lately I need them more and more.. I do find if I'm in a anxious state things seem really vivid in colour and not sharp or hard to focus but this doesn't last long.. Having a spine/lumber MRI this week depending on that result will ask re pancreatic test..
  • Mask
    Mask richard69411

    Posted

    Many times it could be combination of factors. Emotional and Biological bugs. Health concerns that something is not going on rigth within your body and trying to find answers can cause deep anxiety because the root cause is not been diagonosed by numerous doctors sometimes. And most commonly the doctors will priscribe anti-depressants and sleeping pills which could be life threathening making one a cabbage. In my cause I had stomach infection and anxiety of a situation where I used to bear constant insults and I was okay with that. where does all the emotional pain go? It affects your health developing symptoms which you are not aware of.  So I had similar symtoms like yours - burning in the chest, tinggling sensation all over my body, headaches, warm pain in my chest which caused panic attacks. 1. what you need to do is to stop  googling. 2. Try acupuncture/ deep oil massage for relaxation 3. take multivamin 4. Do not concentrate on the tinggling while it tinggles or other symptoms. but divert your mind on someting else. 5. Try to concentrate on your breathing by closing your eyes 6. Avoid food that causes acidity. If there is a stomach bug finding out can be very difficult. I had about 5 endoscopies before findng ou,t I had several ulcers and H-pylori infection. Treated with antibiotics ( Amoxcyln and omiprazol for nearly 8 months.) 
  • Mask
    Mask richard69411

    Posted

    I dont have any of those symptoms now. I am all good!!!
  • traci1962
    traci1962 richard69411

    Posted

    exactly how I felt last nihgt. I was so scarred. Talk with a dotos and get on a medication monitred by him. I have been on meds for a few years, and this is not something that goes way, you need help and counseling will help, but until you figure iut your root problem you need something to take the edge off and get thru your day.

    I still have the vry same symptons you mentins and thught I was going to have to sty in bed all day.  and not go to work, i was thinking what was different about this weekend,,,OH yeah, i did not takw thw time to take my medicine........won't do that again......take care of your self and thng s will get better, not over night but soonsmile

  • martin06323
    martin06323 richard69411

    Posted

    hi richard

    yes this sounds like anxiety your symtoms  of anxiety can reach a whole new level

    ive had most of them focus on the positive anxiety is clever you only have to worry

    about a sensation in your body and anxiety will manefest in any way you want it too

    dont fear your symtoms you can get better

  • richard69411
    richard69411

    Posted

    Thank you all so much for your kind and thoughtful comments.

    I haven't been on here for a while and managing to manage my health anxiety.

    If any one want to share symptoms or experiences please do so.

    rich

  • Speedychick81
    Speedychick81 richard69411

    Posted

    How are you now this sounds just like me I'm so fed up I've convinced myself it's something bad
  • SianDent
    SianDent richard69411

    Posted

    I found this post while looking for answers on my condition, I know I can't help you here but if you can reply to me, can. I can control being scared and things not many people can, but then I have my body not my brain. I suffer from painful migraines, extreme pain all throughout my body. Then I have this, I hear a loud noise a panic my heart rate goes up I feel like I'm being drained, pain rushes through me, my head will droop, no one will notice, I go numb, then I have a flashback everytime. I never remember what it is but it's always something dark. Then it'll start to die down I'll pick my head up again my heart rate still going fast I can feel my pulse, I'll chew on something usually it's a hair elastic. There's other things even more complicated. If anyone can help me reply to this, I need help.
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