Health Anxiety and constant worrying about MS :(

Anxiety is very miserable but all your symptoms to me sound like classic anxiety. Check online the freedom from fear group all symptoms are well identified. I've had numerous of them.

Also my ex boyfriend has MS and you don't have all the symptoms all the time or simultaneously also they would be more intense and actually effect your mobility.

You say yourself you are feeling utter panic and anxiety so there you go, if you weren't feeling so anxious you wouldn't be having the symptoms in the first place. Anxiety feeds off the attention we give it and the fear that itself generates. Very powerful and preoccupying always looking for the way out. The answer lays within ourselves which makes it even harder to accept sometimes.

Also let's face it we are unlikely to go through life without ever having some sort of health issue, anxiety ironically being one! There are soo ooo ooo many conditions, diseases etc anyone of us could get and being anxious or hyper vigilant won't unfortunately protect us. Accepting that we can't control certain things is very hard but it helps. Live in the now more is important and try and not overly predict or pre live the future! Mindfulness really helps. I'm still learning myself but we all have to start somewhere.

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All above describes me completely. I've been goin through this for years. Sympton n fears alle the same. Have just been nk the docs as something triggered it off again n she has prescribed me sertraline again.

I constantly have the fear of getting Ms n every little ache or pain I think it's that. I'm also trying therapy aswell to getting me to change the way I think n try n get rid of all this.

I'm not an expert or a professional but can share my own experinces hopefully providing you some additional insight to provide counter balance and rationale to your on going health concerns.. It's important to remeber they're many reasons and causes behind symptoms of which patient's who present with varied and non-specific symptoms excluding medical signs can find it very challenging in obtaining a diagnosis and you'll find many prevalent diseases are umbrella terms of disorders that fall under a broad category with multiple sclerosis being a condition of the central nervous system which the mssociety addresses the complex and challenging nature behind diagnosing reffering to non-specific symptoms which overlap with many other medical conditons..

It's further complicated by patient's who suffer with anxiety and/or depression as the patient experiences symptoms shared by many medical conditions.. It's easy to explain away symptoms but many illnesses are accompanied by anxiety and depression which can either be primary cause or secondary symptom but in brief many suspected illness requires thorough clinical assessment and medical evaluation to determine the causality of the symptoms

I find it helpful looking up extended definitions of medical terms across wikipedia, patient.info, nhs choices, and reading the full articles on

Symptom: (1.Types, 3.Symptom versus sign)

Dianostic Methods: Inspection, Auscultation, Interrogation, Palpation

Medically Unexplained Symptoms (patient.info)

Symptomatology / Symptomatic / Epidemiology / Characteristics

Clinical Diagnosis

Medical Diagnosis

Differential Diagnosis

Idiopathy

Blood Test

Waterbasket Diagnosis

Malingering

Medical Algorithm: Methodology

World Health Organisation - "Good Clinical Diagnostic Pratice" & "Good Clinical Laboratory Pratice

Also look up how General Pratice is commisioned, managed, regulated, primary care, secondary care, challenges they face, efficiency savings.. read the General Medical Services contract

Clinical Commissioning Groups

Care Quality Commission

General Medical Council

Quality and Outcomes Framework

Local Medical Committee

International Classification of Diseases

Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders

NHS Payments to General Practice, England, 2013-14: Experimental Statistics (Spreadsheet: lookup your pratice surgery)

Might sound over the top and unnecessary but will provide real insight into the current state of affiars and following general pratice boards like pulsetoday and gponline etc. personally I'm trying to stop self diagnosisng and focus on improving my health through making dietary & lifestyle changes as I've wasted last two years and irrespective if I have life long debilitating disease I live with the symptoms and misery of it everyday so why fixate to slap a lable on it might as well just focus on recovery but I would recommend getting clinically evulated and medically assessed for burning/tingling as it suggestive of nerve damage which I suffer with lower right leg yet GP opts for low cost waitful watching and folic acid supplement as it shown to be "slightly" low =S ignorance is not bliss search everything then lecture anyone who undermines your medically unexplained non-specific symptoms and read my prior posts on challenges facing general pratice