Help pleaseeee:(

Hi I am exactly the same as you. I think every little symptom every ache/ pain always means cancer or something very serious. I am sick with worrying about it. If you Google things that will make it so much worse. Do not Google anything it is so bad to do. Remember the symptoms you're having can be related to hundreds of illnesses but I know what you mean when you pinpoint it to one specific illness. I do it all the time. I don't Google anything anymore.

But every day I have a fear of being sick or having cancer. Last night I started getting itchy crawly skin and I am panicking over that two now. Obviously everyone gets itchy at times but to me it means something serious because that is what anxiety does to you.

Anxiety can make you feel so many physical symptoms. I have really bad health anxiety for 18 years now and I just turned 35 on April 1. It is so scary because our mind truly makes us believe that we have an illness. Google will only tell you the serious stuff. There are sooo many reasons for having the symptoms we have and some cannot be explained. Some symptoms are everyday normal aches and pains but I always think the worst. I have nightmares too do you ever get any other body sensations from anxiety?

I'm also scared of waiting for test results or going to the doctor because of what they're gonna tell me. It's torture waiting for results. I always think I'm gonna die soon from something life threatening. I here living like this

Too^ not two lol

* hate^ living like this I mean

I'm so glad somebody has the same symptoms as me it is the worst thing ever!

I do always think it's cancer mainly ever since I fount swollen lymph nodes in my neck which haven't gone down! I feel like I get the 'cancer symptoms like sweating, feeling sick, loss of appetite, the mood swings!

Everything I get I instantly link it to cancer it's really doing my head in now and starting to affect my whole life even my relationship and I also have a 14 month old I don't think I actually get anything else apart from aches and pains I kinda feel in my bones like the cancer is spreading? It'd the weirdest things I feel xx

Yes I have young kids too which makes it that much harder because I always fear I will die and leave them without a mom breaks my heart... And when I feel anxiety I feel irritable, cranky and a little but short tempered which I'm not normally like that.

Since having my last episode of bad anxiety ( which started again a month ago) although I've had health anxiety for 18 yrs; I feel so tired, hot flashes or sweaty, sensitive skin, my joints ache a lot lately and my stomach always feels crampy or nervous. I get a very mild ache in my left side every now and then and I get so panicked about that too..

I am not exaggerating when I say I worry about EVERYTHING health related. I am looking in to getting cbt and maybe mild form of meds again. I use to take Paxil. It was ok.

I always feel my neck for swollen lymph nodes too and although I have none that are swollen, I'm afraid one day they will be. I'm waiting to find something and I don't want to do that!!

Lots of ppl can have swollen lymph nodes and it doesn't always mean cancer at all. Any kind of infection whatsoever can cause that. Even a cold, a flu, anything. My friend found 2 big swollen lymph nodes in her neck and it was nothing. I thought right away she had blood cancer or lymphoma. I fear that in myself too that I have a blood cancer. I had myself convinced now ( after googling ) that I had ovarian cancer, stomach cancer, lymphoma, blood cancer, brain aneurysm, bone cancer and many more

All from googling and so far after all my test, blood work from my annual physical etc... Nothing was ever found. I started to not believe the doctors thinking they were lying to me or missed something.

So you are definitely not alone. This site has 100's of ppl like is going through the exact same thing. Almost everyone I know are complaint about aches and pains or joint pains etc and they don't even worry about it. It's just natural to them as where I would be panicking like

Crazy about it ( which I am) since having aches in my shoulders and legs. My periods are irregular too since having anxiety. That scares me too. You should try and look into cbt as well. It always helps to talk to someone who knows what were dealing with xx

Oh and nodes don't necessarily go down( which is no biggie) if your test come back fine. It's when they start getting much bigger I think you can be a bit more concerned. I had a lymph node swell behind my ear and I though for sure cancer and it's still there after 14 yrs. it didn't get any bigger so the doc said it was nothing. I get nervous just talking about these kind of things ( lumps, nodes etc) ppl without anxiety wouldn't even care about anything that we make such huge deals about.

I think my itching is from me focusing so much on it that my mind is making me think it's worse than it is. Anxiety can make us feel things much more if we dwell on it. Sucks!!!

It feels great to have somebody who knows about the symptoms sorry I took so long to reply I hope your still around for a chat.

I have only ever suffered this since I fount the node in September/October last year iv now got a few but they aren't very big and they are moveable. I know the lumps your meant to worry about is hard fixed lumps these aren't like that. I drill this into my head all the time when I'm about to have a panic attack, then I start feeling achy pains in my neck and color bone which is close to where my lymph nodes are!

I feel like all my legs feel achy and bruised. I also went back to the doctor a few days ago with a big rash thing on my leg he said its herpes (not the std) lol! He gave me tablets for it. Was meant to take 5 a day but I took my first one and it made me feel sick so I have stopped taking them and now it's going like a bruised big purple thing so don't know weather it's clearing up or getting worse I need to go back and make an appointment tomorrow!

I get aches all in the top of my shoulder etc and everytime I google it always related to cancer and then I start getting symptoms that I link to cancer!

I feel like I'm losing my appetite which is related to cancer but I'm also sure it relates to anxiety to?? Also when I feel panicky and hot n sweaty I feel like my throats closing in which I'm sure is also a sign of anxiety? :-( really does suck! I hate it I always want to sleep to stop myself thinking and panicking but it's not good when you have young children either it's effecting me so much and I'm only 20! 21 next Saturday

Iv had bloods and they all came back fine. Also had a d&c a few weeks ago from a miscarriage and they took plenty of blood from me and nothing came of that or they surely would have told me? I always feel like the doctors hiding something from me or they've given me the wrong test results

I have got a scan on the 2nd May and more bloods on the 6th May don't know why they have to drag it out for so long when they know I'm suffering from this really bad!! I haven't noticed my periods being irregular which I'm very surprised because I feel like I'm monitoring everything I never did this or felt like this until I had my son Bradley nearly 14 months ago:-(

I read on Google with cancer you get aches and pains, loss of appetite, bruise easily, always out of breath or find it hard to breathe and I feel like since reading that it's all happening to me so I'm linking it all together I just wish it would stop

Thank you for you replies it really does help talking to somebody who knows what I'm going through!

Xxx

Hi Kirsty and Mandi,

Thought I would comment to say u are not alone I have health anxiety all started about nine months ago I

was checking myself for lumps all the time for no reason other than to find something not because I was

Unwell I knew it wasn't rite but couldn't help it, I started getting the odd panic attack at work didn't think

anything of it until one day I woke up feeling so I'll I thought I had cancer and was dying. My symptoms

Started so awful waking up every day feeling sick had a bad pain in my left side of abdomen like a cramping

Pulling pain witch is the most worrying, felt like I was loosing my mind dizzy didn't feel in control or feel in

My surroundings racing thoughts all day long. I went to my doctor and said I think I've got anxiety and I got

Mirtizipine it has helped with my thoughts about my health abit, but most physical symptoms are still there

Witch make me so worried I have a physical illness and the doctors just won't listen to me I have been

Complaining about this pain in my left abdomen for two months now and they won't even send me for a scan all my bloods where Normal so they just sending me off!! I'm 21 female and want to move on but can't if my

mind is not at rest. Lots of respect to you I know it must be difficult with a child aswell, my boyfriend doesn't

Understand and says it's all in my head so I just don't speak about it with him if he's not willing to understand

That's fine! I feel like the passion and drive that use to be in the pit of my stomach has been ripped out and replaced with anxiety!! I hope we all find a way trough. Wish u good luck.

I'm awaiting CBT have you tried this? Its suppose to be helpful.

Take care Sinead xx

Health anxiety is the most debilitating condition. 35 years ago my neighbour died from cancer. She was only in her thirties. She had been suffering from pains in her arms and legs for a number of months and it turned out to be cancer and she died fairly soon after her diagnosis. She had been ill for two years and hadn't known. Anyway, at the time I had an 18 month old child and I had been suffering from leg pain for several months, after my neighbour died I convinced myself that I too had cancer and was too afraid to see my doctor, so I stupidly decided to try and get pregnant, I say stupid not because I didn't want another child but because if there HAD been something wrong I might have had to choose between my unborn baby and treatment! I just believed that there couldn't be much wrong with me if I managed to concieve, which I did and I gave birth within the year to a healthy boy... what I am saying is, here I am, 35 years on and I am STILL suffering from the leg pains I had all those years ago when I made myself ill with worry and clearly it WASN'T cancer! I have been a worrier all my adult life and to a degree it has ruined my life. Every ache and pain I believe is bone cancer, I have a painful back problem which I was convinced was a tumour on my spine. Headaches are brain tumours, my eye sight is starting to fail only because I'm getting older and simply need glasses but I even worry about going blind.... can you see the pattern? Anxiety leads to depression and it's depression which is the killer! Most cancers these days are curable and I have learned that it is far better to know and deal with it head on, catch things early enough to get treatment and get better rather than bury your head in the sand because if your unlucky enough to find yourself terminally ill, not going to the doctors isn't going to make the slightest difference is it? and eventually you will have to face it. I am now having therapy for my anxiety and I am hoping I can overcome my problems and start to enjoy my life because I have been such a misery for so many years and must have been hell to live with. Please don't be like me..... if you believe you have a medical problem, see your doctor and if you don't like his diagnosis it's your right to ask for a second opinion. If your problems are down to anxiety, ask for help. Don't let anxiety ruin your life.