Worried I have a brain aneurysm
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hi everyone.
i've posted on here in the past regarding my anxiety. i've been okay for past couple of weeks with no real bouts of anxiety. but now i've convinved myself i have a unruptured brain aneurysm!! it all started cos i real an article about a woman dieing from one and its sent me into overdrive!! i did the worse and looked up the symptoms and its got me panicking. basically i recently had an eye test as i was noticing my vision getting slightly worse and i do need glasses for various things. so im trying to get used to them (which is harder then i thought) i dont need to wear them all the time but mainly for reading, driving, tv etc. but i looked up the symtoms and it says pain behind or above eye...well i get this alot! also if i ever get headache its always my left side of my head!! its not bad heachache just a dull ache but now im convinced i have an aneurysm thats waiting to burst!! i get tingling on my face (left side) always have done but my sister also gets that so i try not to think of it too much. basically i just need someone to talk to. ive had health anxiety for many years im only 30! but its so draining. if i see a story or an article on anything like this i go into panic mode! why? i hate it. now im sat here with an aching neck!! its such hard work.
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sam77651 Katie111888
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The chances of you having one when you're under 60 is about a million to one 😃
I also suffer from health anxiety and mostly to do with my head...brain tumors, epilepsy etc
But it's all anxiety I get really strange symptoms dizziness, waves through my head and sometimes its hard to accept its anxiety but it really is.
kayleigh1412 Katie111888
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i know exactly how you feel im the exact same i try and stay away from google as much as i can because i suffer from severe health anxiety and its always my brain i always think ive got a tumor or anurysm or a clot its horrdenous i get all the symtpoms but i always get pain on the left side of my head and my face gets all hot and tingly but the more i panic the more the symptoms get worse everyday i think im dying of something different but im too scared to go my doctors incase he does tell me its something serious and its not anxiety but something stops me everytime because i think im only 21 i have two kids id rather not know
Katie111888 kayleigh1412
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this is like ive written it! i get the hot tingly feeling on left side of my face/head all the time. i should stay away from google! it fuels my anxiety. im the same with the doctors. ive got a 4 year old and my anxiety has gotten worse since having him! him and my husband are literally my world and anxiety takes over me so much. its so hard to deal with at times. i hate it. since i was young ive been like it....i went through a stage of being fine just the odd bout but for last 4 years its been at its worse. little things set me off and im like it for days/weeks. my heart is what i worry about more then anything but i do get anxiety over my brain and thinking i have something wrong.
Eliaimee1970 Katie111888
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it sound like a migrane headache. i have been in the same boat as you i want to cry right now! my neck and upper back is so tense im so worry but all my test are so normal . my upper chest is tight, shoukder pains . i check my bp amd was ok not high for me to go to the ER
Guest Katie111888
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I get occasional (once a month to once every other month) visual migraines where I see strange lights and patterns-usually a string of tiny, multicolored triangles. I was worried for awhile that it might be serious, but then did some reading and discovered it's an 'ocular migraine' and rarely is serious. The episodes are not becoming more common, they only last about 20 minutes or so. So I just deal with them and don't worry. I'm 64 and outside of clinical Depression and GAD, am relatively healthy.
My late brother did die of a brain tumor, a Glio Blastoma. It's the same thing that US Senator John McCain recently died from and once diagnosed is usually fatal within a year or two. Dave lasted a year, even with 2 surgeries to remove the tumor. But the point being, Dave experienced really unusual symptoms which led him to go to a Neurologist in the first place. He started smelling very strange smells that caused a feeling of 'Deja Vu' (he told me the smell reminded him of Christmas time when we were kids, whatever that means). His symptoms were very unusual and they got worse as time went by. Usually any serious condition associated with the brain makes you feel really strange and unusual-a simple headache is rarely a symptom of anything serious. I have pains in my frontal lobe/sinuses nearly every day and have for years, and it is absolutely nothing serious.
You could go to a neurologist and set up a series of expensive tests to put your fears to rest, but I seriously doubt you have an aneurysm or anything like that. Those conditions are quite rare. But, if you really want to be sure there are diagnostic tests they can use to see those type of problems. Go see a neurologist and talk about your fears.
chad99811 Katie111888
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yes, im experencing the same exact thing as you. i keep getting sharp pains behind the eye and forehead area and a weird dull headache on the left side of my neck and head. very tense neck. weird feeling in head. I always feel really weird and woozy and get tingling on my face and arms. Ive also noticed walking around for a while makes it a little worse, do you have that too?
Katie111888 chad99811
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mine doesn't really get worse with walking no, but i do get the tingling..pins and needles type feeling in my arms and head (left side) this i have had for years! i get lightheaded alot and a feeling i really find hard to describe. i can be sat still and suddenly have a panic feeling come over me and my heart starts racing etc it truly is horrible. i get pain behind my left eye quite abit (recently got new glasses but finding it hard to adjust) never wore glasses before. i think a mixture of everything makes my anxiety worse...i hate change.