Tips On How To Overcome Health Anxiety and its lingering effects
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So uh this is my 2nd entry on this forum and to start off this narrative of mine, I'am still trying my best on dealing with my lingering symptoms due to these weird feelings that i'm still having onto my tongue. its been weeks of me dealing with this type of crappy feeling of me kept on thinking that i probably have an early onset of a neurological disease that will give you a slow and inevitable passing once u had this. its really sad to think of those things tbh and for my situation right now, i don't have any like fasciculations or spasms that are occuring within my tongue but just feel a bit weakened especially if i'm using it constantly like pushing against the palate or the teeth whatever bullcraps that i can think of to test out my tongue every single day. its just basically me on an endless loop of checking myself. i don't even know if like the subtle atrophied part of the lower part of the left side of my tongue is just one of those cases of people having weird sensations on their body, whatever it is, but as soon as they check themselves out with a doctor, they are completely healthy and fine like how in the world did that happened? people really having or feeling these symptoms that are similar to severe diseases but they are really healthy. i always feel like my tongue is like a liiiiiiittle bit heavy or i could even feel my tongue's movement even more during every time that i'am speaking. there were also some occurences where i would feel confused on what i'm having this and that, why am i struggling with this but then afterwards i'll realized the reason why lol but still, the fact that i could feel some subtle weird feelings around my tongue, that is really my issue. i kept on thinking as well that if either the atrophied part of my tongue is the one who is affecting my speech or just me hyper-focusing on it so that's why i could my tongue's weird movement or whatever. like seriously, i just want to get over this anxiety of mine but hey, atleast i'm not googling anymore about my health concerns but i'm still having some difficulties over my current situation. what can y'all recommend to me about some tips or whatever that could help? like home remedies as well or some techniques etc. it will be greatly appreciated 😃 thanks for reading my anxious banters if you happened to reach this far lol
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sasical72 miguel34492
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Hi Miguel,
First of all congrats on not Googling!! that is sl important to get out of the health anxiety loop.
I'm sure your tongue is fine, the problem that has to be addressed her is obviously the anxiety.
One thing that is useful is to give yourself a time limit, for example...2 weeks...if I still have this symptom in 2 weeks and will go to the doctor about it, but for now I'm going to address the anxiety.
There are some meditations on YouTube or Insight Timer specific for health anxiety, maybe you could focus on those for now.
Best of luck?
miguel34492 sasical72
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Thanks, sasical! you know, this is one of the mysteries that i'am still trying to find some answers for, me or like other people having those kinds of weird and unusual symptoms but it will turn out that our body is in a perfect condition despite of those peculiar sensations that some of us are having. for almost every single day, i would always check out my tongue if its still strong enough despite of the little atrophied part of the lower left side of my tongue or if there is no struggle with my tongue while I'am talking or whatsoever. all i could do is just avoiding of hyper-focusing or feeling my tongue while i'am talking especially if saying a word with a hard R pronunciation. there are times where i just don't want to speak in English but it just comes out naturally like i would just unconsciously start speaking lol but the only thing that i just want to get over with is my health anxiety but i just can't avoid these feelings that i'm having most of the times like i would just want to travel forward in time for like 5 years to see if i'm still alive and kicking if only time travel is possible and that easy to use. all i could think of as of now like me having a bit of a struggle of reaching the most farthest part of the left side of my teeth is because probably my right side is much more dominant and i've been also having the same experience even years ago but the thought of me still having these ideas that my tongue is starting to feel a bit weak or the idea of me realizing its probably normal to me since i naturally can't reach it unlike on the right hand side without no struggle at all are just constantly crashing ugh if only i'm independent enough to go and consult a doctor by myself and without asking permission towards my parents then i would do it in an instant.
christophe72809 miguel34492
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hi miguel
i suffered from really bad anxiety for over 6 years, i was taking 100mg of septraline and 25mg of propanhalol (, think that's what it was called). i use to have constant chest pains and always thought that was going to be the end of me especially when i used dr Google alot . (never do this lol)
I went through everything in my life trying to find out why and always found an excuse why it couldn't be certain things and then reality kicked in it was my job that was making me ill. even though i had alot of friends there the toxic side from certain ppl made me feel the way i did, even though i was sure in my mind everything was awesome there.
as soon as i left i took 6 weeks for myself which was nothing special just have a complete break and relax at home most of the time and with that I stopped my meds and have never looked back. sometimes i still have to tell myself stop thinking crap but most days its all good.
obviously this has worked for me and a new job has made my life so much better.
so what im trying to say most of the stuff we go through with anxiety is in our heads and finding why has worked for me and may work for others
hope that made some sort in sense
miguel34492 christophe72809
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I'm glad to hear that you have already managed to help yourself out from the sufferings that you have dealt with during your harsh days while dealing with anxiety. i'am also trying to find some answers about anxiety and its capabilities on giving out weird effects on our body both mentally and physically. still a bit anxious on the subtle atrophied part on the lower left side of my tongue and that's where i'm trying to look for some other reasonable explanations behind it, not just staying on an idea of me having this and those type of thoughts that is just a bit obnoxious and no assurances of.